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To: average joe who wrote (41063)	11/10/2005 1:49:35 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

This was basically Jefferson's idea- -that the gov't should fear the people. He believed a new revolution would be necessary every 20-30 years to keep liberty. He may have been right. :-) "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776 -------------------------------------------------- "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson etext.virginia.edu That a citizenry armed with civilian weapons could defeat a modern army I find highly questionable. HOWEVER, when those soldiers are ordered to fire on their own people, they often discover that their weapons point both ways.

To: average joe who wrote (41063)	11/10/2005 3:20:16 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787 catb.org

To: average joe who wrote (41063)	11/11/2005 10:01:23 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"Canadian gun laws reflect fear the government has of people rather than government demonstrating concern for people." In a Government where the people are at least partly represented by those whom they elect to office--I think it is fair to say that gun laws also reflect the fears of people who are not in Government. In a poll of the "Canadian People" it will be found that many of them support the gun laws because of their fears of other people. I'm not expressing any stand by pointing out this observation...