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To: tpaine
What is happening is like playing a card game with the gun banners where no matter what the outcome of the game they get to play again. Every time they win you get screwed and then they set up for the next card game which you have to play. If they lose you win nothing and they set up for the next card game which you have to play. Now I don't have a problem debating with someone about things when we all agree on what freedom is and that is not the topic of debate. With these people we are debating whether we should be slaves or not and it seems to me that we shouldn't be debating with them nor having to worry about the next game of cards. Sometimes a direct approach is called for.
14 posted on 03/14/2003 6:32:57 PM PST by FSPress
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From the Chapter "Nasty things may happen" : Armed Resistance:

As the specter of myriad American civilians fighting their own government to retain their gun rights were not troubling enough, there is evidence that at least some members of the armed forces would join the resistance. Many members of the armed services are gun culture types: they own firearms themselves, are convinced that Americans have the inalienable right to keep and bear arms, and they take an oath to defend the Constitution from every enemy, "foreign or domestic." [139] It is therefore likely that at least some in the military would not simply look the other way as the government attempted to enforce a policy of domestic disarmament. [140] A master's thesis studying the attitudes of American soldiers found that the large majority would not obey orders to fire on citizens who resisted gun confiscation. [141

The master's thesis may be located by googling 29 palms questionaire. It was posted to FR but has been nuked from the server IIRC .

15 posted on 03/14/2003 6:36:41 PM PST by kaylar
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To: FSPress
Every time they win you get screwed and then they set up for the next card game which you have to play. If they lose you win nothing and they set up for the next card game which you have to play.

That's because the wrong things have been allowed to be discussed. We need to pressure, force or coerce congress into evaluating firearm legislation the right way. Any debate should be about what regulations are to be repealed, and in what order.

20 posted on 03/14/2003 7:24:13 PM PST by Aarchaeus
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