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bucolic_frolic

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4. Guns were good when citizens defended the country on the frontier and shores if need be

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Sat Apr 8, 2023, 07:33 AM

Apr 2023

Those days are long gone. Now there is far less patriotism. Guns are for getting what you want, by force or control, unless you're a hunter. The world hasn't been this psychologically divided since The Thirty Years' War. Geographic boundaries mean little. It's all about what's going on in the heads of the oppressors.

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Guns were good when citizens defended the country on the frontier and shores if need be bucolic_frolic Apr 2023 #4

and the oppressed. mopinko Apr 2023 #6

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