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From: dbongard@netcom.com (Dan Bongard)
Subject: Re: Quake, Violence, Guns, Constitution, et al
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Jason Nyte (nyte@ods.ods.net) wrote:


: Dan Bongard <dbongard@netcom.com> wrote in article
:> Jason Nyte (nyte@ods.ods.net) wrote:
:>: Dan Bongard <dbongard@netcom.com> wrote:

: I wouldn't trust Metalflake with a gun for the same reason I don't trust
: most of the locals with a gun. 

And I don't trust you with freedom of speech, because you have demonstrated
that you enjoy using it to advocate oppression of your fellow human beings.
Does this mean you would support a law that made it illegal for you to 
publically express youreslf? According to your logic, any of the Bill of 
Rights can be ignored as long as enough voters feel threatened by it. Are
you so ignorant that you fail to realize that the whole _point_ of the 
Bill of Rights is to protect citizens against people like yourself? To
prevent the rights of others from being voted away by popular opinion?

: They beleive that their belief system overrules everyone elses and if
: someone disagrees with it, they should loose ALL of their freedom and the
: right to vote (prison) if not their life.

This is exactly what you believe, nimrod. People who disagree with your
opinion -- ie, people who feel that they have a right to own their guns --
should lose their freedom and their right to vote. Or don't you think
they throw people in prison for violating weapons laws in this country?

The Branch Davidians had comitted no crime save for weapons possession.
Their compund was assaulted by heavily armed and armored federal
agents attempting to make arrests. You have supported the government's 
action publically. You believe that people who disagree with you about
the second amendment should be imprisoned. That makes you as much a
fascist as any gun advocate I've seen in this thread.

-- Dan
