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To: mph who wrote (57939)	4/17/2007 2:44:40 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 90947

"I sense that you identify with the gun control advocates." Only to a point, but relative to some here, my support is infinite. Any positive number, no matter how small, is infinitely greater than zero. "So which side of the gun control equation did you think was the loudest in reaction to yesterday's events at VT?" "Was" being the operative word? The first to raise the issue, AFAISaw, was the gun rights absolutists with their defensive posturing and rationalized "more guns will make us safer" arguments. But I fully expect both sides to be plenty loud in the coming days and weeks. "I'm also a little curious about where you come down on the NSA and telephone monitoring issue, for example." It's been a while, but I think I've made my position on this plenty clear in the past. First, to my knowledge, no one has ever shown that anything illegal was going on in the NSA wiretap program. Second, I don't believe that monitoring international calls to or from suspected terrorists - with or without a warrant - is a threat to my liberty. Third, I rarely find slippery slope arguments persuasive. There's a reason it's called a fallacy. I also don't oppose red light cameras, BTW. "Is it that people just like some rights better than others?" That seems obvious. On both sides.