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From: Christophe Weibel <weibel@dma.epfl.ch>
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HERBAVOR wrote:

>   Also, what does this have to do with the statement made above.  If the UK ruled the USA today and
> we wanted our independence, we wouldn't have much trouble getting rid of the British form our country
> since we have 130+ million legally owned guns and at least 130+ million guns not legally owned and
> smuggled into this country.  Also with 260 million people we would outnumber them by far.

The whole idea of "IF UK RULED USA, THERE WOULD BE A WAR" seems very
strange to me. All important colonies were freed long years ago. I don't
remember Canada had to fight for independance. If the UK ruled the USA
now, and the USA wanted to be free, I sure hope it would be done very
civvily. The United States would use their right of vote, easily
overcome the opposition, and win independance.

There is such a thing happening now in Canada. Quebec has many times
asked itself if it wanted to be independant. The citizen were against it
until this day, sometimes by a few percents. But there was NEVER, NEVER,
a hint of a shadow of a suggestion of a menace that the rest of Canada
would bomb Montreal, and that there would be a civil war. Thank God. I
like civilisation.

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Christophe Weibel
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