🚀 go-pugleaf

H�vard K. Moen <hkm...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 00:58:50 -0400, "Frank_Rizzo"
> <riz...@FARTalltel.net.net> wrote:
>
> > Capa422 <capa42...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:cdUg3.19088
> >
> > > Control eh?  Sounds more like paranoia.
> >
> > Tell that to the Jews.
>
> ROTFL!
>
> > So, freedom is now paranoia?
>
> No, but maybe this isn't about freedom. Perhaps you are paranoid. I
> wouldn't know, though, but you sound a bit paranoid when you talk
> about this.

Not paranoia. Free choice. And, YES, this is about freedom! Look, I have a
right under my constitution to bear arms, we have had this right since the
begining of this country. If my government takes this right away because
some whinny liberal doesn't want me to own a gun, then I have lost my
freedom to purchase a gun. If they don't want to own a gun, fine, but don't
tell me what I can/can't own under my constitutional rights. I won't tell
them what to do.

> <snip>
> > The last I checked this was _not_ a communist country. You can go right
ahead,
> > and ban knives in your country...  I won't try to stop you.
>
> Ah, the communists! The badguys! Hehe...
>
> Oh, and we (Norway) don't ban guns, but people who don't need guns
> won't be allowed to buy them. If you are a hunter and do not have a
> criminal record, yeah, you will get a gun, but you will need proper
> training too.

Oh yeah huh? Whom decides who "needs" a gun? You can't have a criminal
record and buy a gun here either. I agree, people should have proper
training.

It's not paranoia, our government is well known for slowly taking our rights
away. First it's special laws on guns, then it's a little more, then a total
ban. Prime example: Our seatbelt laws: First, you didn't have to wear one,
then you had to wear one in a car, but you couldn't be pulled over for not
wearing one, you had to be stopped for another offence first. (You still
didn't have to wear them in a pickup truck). Then, they passed another law
that they could pull you over for not wearing one be it in a car, or pickup.
That was their original intention. But it took years to accomplish... Slowly
taking our rights away. Seatbelts save lives, and I have always worn one
anyway, but it's the point. Do you think they care if you die from not
wearing a seatbelt? Nope... they care only about the almighty dollar, and
control. They accomplished both with the seatbelt law.