Sinergy
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ORIGINAL: seeksfemslave Reading my post 21 it seems very callous in a way that I didn't intend, but surely its a fair point to make that if you allow large numbers of people to arm themselves it doesn't take many nutcases or just downright wicked people to do a lot of harm. Seeksfemmeslave: If everyone has a gun then everyone is polite. thompson Examples of polite societies that have guns include... The American West Iraq Iran Sri Lanka Indonesia India Pakistan Afghanistan Colombia Nicaragua And the list goes on. While I have heard many people espouse the need for guns by indicating that guns make people polite, History teaches that armed societies generally are not as polite as they are made out to be by the True Believers In Gun Ownership. The main exception, I suppose, would be feudal Japan. Although they used swords to kill each other, and as long as everybody lived in their own little caste bubble, everything was hunky dory. Which is not to say that I am anti-gun or anti-politeness, I am simply stating that the number of examples of impolite armed societies far outnumber the number of polite armed societies. Just me, could be wrong, but there you go. Sinergy
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