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To: Pitchfork
Most gun murders are first time offenses (drunken fights, domestic violence etc.)

So, you recommend the disarming of law-abiding Americans to stop drunken fights and domestic violence. Okey-dokey.

Pray tell me has Michgan closed its borders? Does it search cars for imported guns? Selecting a single state or municipality and predicating an argument on its failure ignores the fact that guns are transportable. What might fail at a state level could work on a national one. (a testable and falsifiable proposition)

So, you propose closing all of our national borders? Won't get too many arguments here on that one, but not for the same reasons. You also want to search all cars nationally looking for firearms. Sounds like a fascist police state to me.

The argument has been made that the reason Britain democratized in the 1800's while Germany didn't is that Britain was a naval power with a small standing army. Germany a land power has a big army that was used to suppress the masses. Costa Rica a bastion of constitutional government in Central America may have achieved it success by getting rid of its standing army.

So, are you positing that we should rid ourselves of our army?...and stay armed personally?

I think you are very confused.

163 posted on 03/14/2003 8:09:15 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
I am saddened that you consider myself and the other poster as two peas in the same pod. I don't agree with the other poster actually about most of what he has posted, and find him rather difficult to follow in any event. I try for clarity, if only to more effectively and efficiently annoy. Regards.
172 posted on 03/14/2003 8:12:22 PM PST by Torie
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