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Dave Kopel (and colleagues), the most logical and articulate defender of gun rights in America today (we in Colorado are proud to claim him as one of our own) explains the pitfalls of banning firearms in terms that even a liberal should be able to understand.
1 posted on 12/05/2001 6:59:27 AM PST by white trash redneck
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To: white trash redneck
Well, for one thing, it would be hard to play Russian Roulette with either a knife or a hand grenade.
2 posted on 12/05/2001 7:02:54 AM PST by BlueLancer
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Well said. and here's a bump to you.

I can resist but here goes:

Q: What was John Lennon's last words?

A: Yoko! Oh No!!!!!!!

B-)
3 posted on 12/05/2001 7:03:22 AM PST by Nowhere Man
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Was it a millionaire who said, 'Imagine no possessions'?

-Elvis Costello

4 posted on 12/05/2001 7:04:38 AM PST by real saxophonist
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Take, for example, New York's 1911 Sullivan Law

Don't remind me. When I return to New York, I will have to probably hire a lawyer to navigate the legal maze created by the Sullivan Law and later regs (Thanks to RINO John Lindsay, NYC even registers rifles!). BTW: Tim Sullivan was a corrupt NYPD Chief connected to Tammany Hall who essentially leaned on the legislature to pass the horrorific law that bears his name.

5 posted on 12/05/2001 7:06:20 AM PST by Clemenza
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Seriously, because he is logical and articulate, liberals will never understand him.
6 posted on 12/05/2001 7:06:37 AM PST by real saxophonist
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To: white trash redneck; *bang_list
bump
7 posted on 12/05/2001 7:07:40 AM PST by Free the USA
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The gun-free utopia, detailed.
8 posted on 12/05/2001 7:07:58 AM PST by coloradan
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9 posted on 12/05/2001 7:11:57 AM PST by WIMom
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10 posted on 12/05/2001 7:14:39 AM PST by Joe Brower
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I have imagined, and that is why I own a few
11 posted on 12/05/2001 7:14:41 AM PST by GoredInMich
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Sigh.

Imagine a world without liberals

Imagine a world without rabid war mongering liberals giving themselves the right to confiscate guns from peaceful people.

Guns don't kill, liberals do.

12 posted on 12/05/2001 7:14:52 AM PST by lavaroise
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Hardly sounds like the world liberals have in mind. Then again liberals usually think in the short-term about whatever feels good for the present and damn the future consequences. Any problems liberals have with banning guns can be left for later. The only problem is to get to the gun-free future they yearn as David Kopel et. al pointed out, liberals have to give up some of the things that make Western society liberal. All of which illustrates the old adage "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it." So much for the liberal fantasy a gun-free world can be brought about without shredding freedom in the process or or without taking the beast out of the man. Perhaps they should revisit the dogma that getting rid of guns makes for a freer and fairer world.
13 posted on 12/05/2001 7:15:02 AM PST by goldstategop
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Bump for later reading. Looks good.
14 posted on 12/05/2001 7:17:36 AM PST by FOMTY
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You know, another interesting story is the development of karate on the island of Okinawa. All weapons ( swords ) were banned there. The rest is an interesting story.
15 posted on 12/05/2001 7:17:56 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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Imagine a world without liberals controlling your life.
17 posted on 12/05/2001 7:19:20 AM PST by AppyPappy
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Can you say "Cambodia?" I knew that you could.
19 posted on 12/05/2001 7:24:29 AM PST by Liberal Classic
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The first gun here is for McCain and the second for the rest of us.

READY - AIM - FIRE

911 VS 357

21 posted on 12/05/2001 7:30:44 AM PST by stlrocket
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Yeah, no guns would mean the return of Bows and arrows, sabers, knives, sling shot like David used to slay the giant or as the Mother in Houston did, use the bath tub to kill her children. GUNS DO NOT KILL, PEOPLE DO. The gun cannot fire itself. Liberals lack any common sense, they are in a dream world.
22 posted on 12/05/2001 7:34:53 AM PST by Texbob
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Bump for an excellent piece. My only slight gripe to some of the responses is the use of the word "liberal" in reference to people who seek to empower the government to ban firearm ownership among citizens.

Such people are most decidedly not liberal, in any sense of the word, however much they might like to think of themselves that way.

They are authoritarians.

23 posted on 12/05/2001 7:35:06 AM PST by Dr. Frank fan
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A world without guns! HAHAHAHA! We could take over with a butter knife and a pointy stick! HAHAHAHA!

Or, to quote Kodos, "Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"

25 posted on 12/05/2001 7:37:44 AM PST by Teacher317
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