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To: Fred Nerks
Australians are not so predisposed to be sheep. And the statistics are not falsely manipulated by BOTH sides. The rise of home invasions in England and Australia is clearly correlated to gun control and a defenseless population.

Swords were even part of the belongings of Jesus' disciples. From before the Magna Carta, the rights to arms have been debated in the English speaking world. Gentlemen carried swords and serfs/commoners/peasants did not until/unless they were granted the rights to do so. In America it is the people who are to grant the government power and not the other way around.

The right to personal defense is a UNIVERSAL civil right that the Euro weenies and the world needs to adopt this most basic civil right (which was not denied to Blacks even in the Jim Crow era).
51 posted on 10/25/2006 7:47:42 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

From the article:

Without understanding the fundamentally different cultures and attitudes that come only from living in both America and Australia, it is virtually impossible to understand how both sides of this debate do have very valid points. What we need to recognize is that the issues are so different in each country that the same gun law model cannot be used for both countries. You cannot have cookie cutter gun laws in the same way you cannot have cookie cutter democracies. You cannot take someone’s history away, and it is their history that leads them to make the decisions they make. Everyone’s history is so different and there are so many things we just don’t know we don’t know.


62 posted on 10/25/2006 8:36:58 PM PDT by Fred Nerks ("Illegitimi non carborundum",)
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