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To: from occupied ga
Optimist. I was thinking that it would have been right up to the point where they met a few old f@rts of my generation who got back from Viet Nam 38 years ago.

Oh there'd be quite enough of us old Vietnam-era f@rts in there to be sure, plus those who've seen how *well* such disarmament has worked in Bosnia and Panama. And elsewhere, here and there, in between.

You are one of the more well informed who post here, and I'm sure you remember the marine officer quiz of several years ago when they were asked if they would participate in disarming civilians.

Indeed I do; in and around Jan 1994, to include Question # 46 "I Would Fire Upon U.S. Citizens..." Only around a quarter of the Marines so interviewed said that they would do so.

And I also remember some of the responses they got when the survey was discussed by Special Forces personnel at Ft Bragg, whose De Oppresso Liber motto approximately translates to Free the Oppressed. The Powers That Be found out just how seriously most of them take that motto. And figured they were better off keeping such surveys among Marines and Navy personnel.


17 posted on 03/30/2007 1:45:44 PM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: archy
"The 2nd Amendment protects us from tyranny. Therefore, the 2nd Amendment is our most sacred heirloom from our Founding Fathers. Protect it...indeed, protect it at all costs...even under pain of death...it is that important..."

I have no illusion whatsoever that I would be the only man that would fight to the death to protect the 2nd Amendment...

37 posted on 03/31/2007 11:15:00 AM PDT by JDoutrider (Hunter/Thompson or Thompson/Hunter '08_Either way suits me just fine!)
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