It shouldn't be so hard to get a person to admit that this point:
"Criminals prefer easy targets"
is true. Thanks for finally allowing the point.
Is not true that Hitler avoided a clash with Switzerland? His reasoning was that the cost was higher than the benefit. And, why did he reason that? Because every man has a military rifle and knows how to use it there. Every man serves in the military there for a brief tour and every man has to re-check back in with his rifle in good repair from time to time and demonstrate he can still use it well.
Maintaining a deterrence is not an original American ideal. Maintaining a defense is not just American.
There are some Europeans who feel the same way. Hope the unification of Europe doesn't result in German/Brit style gun laws applying to all of Europe.
But, come to America, Doc. We could use some more reasonable men that are well educated and can understand the value of having a weapon.
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -Thomas Jefferson
Last edited by wmbwinn; 07-02-2008 at 07:17 PM.
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