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To: Lexinom
We ARE the cops in a certain sense...

For the first 150 years in most of this country, it was in the LITERAL sense, as there were no police.

11 posted on 01/26/2013 9:49:43 PM PST by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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To: Carry_Okie

....and crime was lower.

See the book Frontier Violence. Violent crime was a fraction what it is today.


25 posted on 11/30/2014 8:24:01 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Compared to obama, Jimmy Carter looks like Winston Churchill.)
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