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Offline Roper

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If guns kill people....
« on: November 06, 2011, 06:45:10 AM »
Read this on another site, couldn't get it to copy correctly....

If guns kill people, then....forks make people fat, pencils misspell words, and cars make people drive drunk.   ;D
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan

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Re: If guns kill people....
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2011, 09:50:50 AM »
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A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.
 

-Shane, 1953 ......

How did we lose sight of what everyone knew in the 50's?  Even Hollywood had some sense back then......
The Right to Keep and BEAR Arms is enshrined explicitly in both our State and Federal Constitutions, yet most of us are afraid to actually excercise that Right, for very good reason: there is a good chance of being arrested........ and  THAT is a damned shame.  III.

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Re: If guns kill people....
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2011, 07:34:50 PM »
Jim P - what a great quote!!!
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan