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- From: PA142548@utkvm1.utk.edu (T. Archer)
- Subject: Re: US as No. 1 (3 data books)
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- References: <1993Jan22.151010.17928@acuson.com> <1993Jan22.220321.8579@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1993Jan26.114023.28748@adobe.com> <C1IH0o.MJx@news.chalmers.se>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:54:38 GMT
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- In article <C1IH0o.MJx@news.chalmers.se> d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell) writes:
- >>Official state religions
- >
- > I'd rather live in a secularized country with a state religion than in a
- >religious country without a state religion.
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- I'd rather live in neither: a country with freedom to express religious
- principles where the state is forbidden to support any of them.
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- >
- >>Mandatory government/military service
- >
- > It teaches people how to handle guns, and handle themselves around guns,
- >and is IMHO the single greatest factor in the difference in murder statistics.
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- How does this follow? I can see it lowering accident rates, but not murder
- rates.
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- >
- >>Unreasonable (to Americans) search and seizure in the name of
- >>public safety
- >
- > Like no-knock searches?
-
- Those are currently illegal, dangerous, and a bad idea. Unfortunately, the
- state has the power to ignore the law.
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