Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:38:43 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson <noslenj@swbell.net> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD"] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003291906240.935-100000@acp.swbell.net> In-Reply-To: <20000328231558.C14473@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: >How do we know the guy leading the crowds of gun owners is not the >tyrant? Tyrants don't last long in a combat unit. Ever heard of fragging? >Well, in the spirit of the 1770's, I'll let you do the >fighting. Roughly a third of the people back then were >pro-Independence, another third were Loyalists, and another third >really didn't care less. Lucky for the Independence crowd, the French >showed up and the British had bigger things to worry about at the >time. > >I'd probably be in that last, "careless" crowd. I wouldn't need a gun, >but the fact everybody else will be armed to the teeth... *sigh* You >want me to need one, huh? I guess maybe I do. French probably won't >come bail my ass out this time 'round. Before you are so quick to concede peace, perhaps you should review the outcome for the Vichy French after WWII? Or perhaps, the few Dutch who adopted the same attitude during the 40's. The real issue with this debate, as it is with the debate over who will do what with the FreeBSD trade mark is much the same. Everyone wants freedom, but some seem to want freedom only when others can't disagree and act otherwise. The rebuttal is if you restrict someone else's freedom, you most surely restrict your own. -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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