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Gun ownership and freedom
by Shahryar Pax on Apr 18, 2007 07:39 AM

I am afraid your Indian readers do not appreciate that Americans are a free people because they have the constitutional right to bear arms.

No tyrannical govt. can hope to take over a country where the citizens possess means to defend themselves.

In the UK all subjects were permitted to own a shotgun without licence until 1917 when the peasants in proto-USSR rebelled and took over the govt. -- the English aristocracy immediately clamped down on gun ownership then.

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