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Originally posted by Jack, the Little Death:

Gun Control ... This is one of those rare issues where I actually disagree with most of my liberal compadres. Second ammendment. There it is, plain as day, and you can really see where the Founding Fathers were coming from. I'm not a "gun person." I'm not really crazy about the things, even though I grew up around them. In Alaska, in the middle of the woods, a gun was just one of those things you had, like a coat or a truck. You needed the gun to survive -- and to me, that's what it's all about. The gun represents the ability of the populace to feed and defend themselves independently of the government. And let's not forget that when the Founding Fathers drew up the Bill of Rights, they had just finished whacking their own government upside the grape with those arms.
I dont know if you remember another ammendment that outlawed alcohol.....but as we came to see was a really stupid idea.....just beacause something was deemed approriate over 200 years ago...doesnt necessarially make it right nor wrong.