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- Newsgroups: dc.talk.guns
- Path: sparky!uunet!clsi!kevin
- From: kevin@clsi.COM (Kevin Cameron)
- Subject: Re: ALERT! Anti-gun meeting in NoVA
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.161859.14280@clsi.COM>
- Originator: kevin@dubhe
- Sender: usenet@clsi.COM
- Reply-To: kevin@clsi.com
- Organization: CAD Language Systems Inc.
- References: <1887@tnc.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 16:18:59 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <1887@tnc.UUCP>, m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY) writes:
- >
- > > Excessive paranoia on the part of gun owners will not help.
- >
- > Excuse me, but if you consider remembering the lessons of Nazi Germany
- > and Stalinist Russia, not to mention the more recent activities of
-
- Would you care to explain the relevance of the Nazi/Stalinist regimes to this
- thread.
-
- > California, New Jersey and New York City to be 'excessive paranoia,'
- > then your reality check just bounced.
-
- > All governments, however formed, have used firearms registration lists
- > to confiscate them at a later date. Once that happens, government is
- > free to do whatever they want to defenseless citizens. Believe it or
- > not, the Second Amendment is in the Constitution for a purpose.
- > Ignore that purpose, lose your freedom, and you only have yourself to
- > blame.
-
- Anyone who thinks that the public will be able to defend themselves against
- the government with ~9mm semi-auto handguns is definitely a few cards short of a
- deck.
-
- My accusation of 'excessive paranoia' referred to the 'knee jerk' reaction of
- NRA supporters to any attempt to restrict the supply of particular weapons to
- the general public.
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-
- Kev.
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