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no one of consequence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Trevor Wilson wrote: > ]> > > ]> >**Here in Australia, we have an egalitarian society. I have no > ]> >"betters". > ]> > ]> Then why do they have guns, and you don't? > ] > ] **You are making a faulty conclusion, drawn from faulty assumptions. > ] Here is the data which you either don't know, or is incorrect: > ] > ] * That I do not have a gun. > > So how do you restrain all those "murderous impulses"? What happens when he picks up a knife? Or matches? What -could- happen??? AAACK,the horrors! > > ] * That, because someone has a gun, they are somehow "better" than > ] anyone else. No,but they may be SAFER than the unarmed. OR,better PREPARED for any trouble that might come their way. But in the context he used,it means that those who are armed are your - rulers-,you their subject,and you must follow their orders,under threat of force. (Mao said power comes from the barrel of a gun) Just as you would have to for any criminal armed with a weapon(gun,knife,club,sharp object,etc.) -- Jim Yanik,NRA member jyanik-at-kua.net
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