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To: steve-b

I can remember as a boy in the late 50's in our small town where people could leave their keys in their cars on the street and their homes unlocked and nothing would happen to them. Later there were TV ads that implied if you left your keys in your car you were contributing to juvenile delinquency. Did taking one's car keys out and locking their front doors eventually solve it? As a society, no.

Our freedom is being slowly eroded to where we are being forced to increasingly play defense and be on our guard at all times. Somehow imho that burden needs to be shifted off law abiding citizens' shoulders and onto those elements who think they can betray the common trust.

One would not raise their own child this way to where the only way to trust them is to lock everything up. Neither as a society if we are to protect our liberties can we allow this standard to become the norm for others.

/soapbox off :-)


10 posted on 06/23/2006 8:21:51 PM PDT by baseball_fan
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To: baseball_fan

Well said.

Bump


15 posted on 06/23/2006 8:31:55 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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