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Showing Original Post only (View all)Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety [View all]
deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
In what sick mind is giving up guns an essential liberty.
I would argue that going to first grade or going to a movie theater is the essential liberty that is being given up
in order for the gun nutters to have the temporary safety of their phallic substitutes.
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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety [View all]
Fresh_Start
Dec 2012
OP
Actually that map says nothing. What it does is take violent crime per 100,000 and divide it by the
Flabbergasted
Dec 2012
#34
No our Constitution does not give us that right. Rights exist with or without words on paper.
jody
Dec 2012
#16
But it's not giving up "our" freedom...it's giving up THEIR freedom for OUR security
HereSince1628
Dec 2012
#3
You say generically "mental illness" do you mean many / any MI should disqualify a person?
HereSince1628
Dec 2012
#25