That is a lie.
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Actually, it isn't.
Paul said the single dumbest thing I've ever heard in a presidential debate last night. He said that our response to 9/11 should have been to return to individual liberty.
Now, I'm as libertarian as most (as far as economics is concerned anyway), but I'd sure like to know how Paul thinks we should use "individual liberty" as a weapon against Jihadist suicide bombers and airplane hijackers.
"HALT! I command you to drop that box-cutter, in the name of Milton Friedman!"
Hank
"And this .357 magum that I am freely allowed to bear".
In 1965 I could board a plane with one. The government removed that right from me and everyone else.
THAT is what Ron Paul meant.
And if fedgov had not systematically disarmed every LAW-ABIDING person who flew, 9-11 would never have happened. If just ONE PERSON on each of those flights had been armed, we would not even be having this discussion. We would have had 19 dead or captured WANNABEE hijackers and that would have been that. (Bear in mind that these were not BOMBERS, as such, but wannabee martyrs who wanted to do what they did.) A return to individual liberty is just EXACTLY what the doctor ordered! I wonder why you say it as if it were a BAD thing...
"HALT! I command you to drop that box-cutter, in the name of Milton Friedman SMITH & WESSON!"
That's how.
I fixed your post in an effort to help you understand.
In 1999 I flew to Sweden with a 4” pocket knife. On September 11th, 19 muslims flew with boxcutters. Now nobody can carry nailclippers or even a bottle of water. How are we safer? Federal law has prohibited airline pilots from carrying guns into their own pilots. I thought we already agreed here that big government is a problem and not a solution?