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To: Eagle Eye
Ridding America of gun laws won't work? Getting rid of the IRS won't work?

Are you speaking rhetorically? Or are you intentionally addressing those questions to me? If so, I'm curious what leads you to the conclusion that I'm against repealing gun laws or the IRS.

140 posted on 11/16/2001 1:25:11 PM PST by Snuffington
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To: Snuffington
The folks that are most ardently opposed to Libertarians seem to have the blinders on when it comes to some of the issue.

Somehow, wanting to end the war on drugs equates the desire to live strung out; the belief that government has better things to do than monitor sex between consenting adults equates the desire to have sex with animals and children; and the idea that the US should avoid foreign entanglements equates into libertarians wanting to be peaceniks and isolationists. But we rarely, if ever hear anything regarding gun control and the IRS. To be solidly anti-Libertarian requires one to also oppose the Libertarian stand on those issues as well, doesn't it?

Or is it just easier to make the wrong assumption, take it to the extreme, then apply it to all libertaians and then declare that none of their ideas are workable?

I'm not necessarily accusing you personally of each of these tactics, but I am asking you if those tactics that are employed by the more vocal of your side are intellectually honest and if those tactics contribute to any debate of the issues?

142 posted on 11/16/2001 1:27:03 PM PST by Eagle Eye
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