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"The government trusted me with a M-48 tank and assorted small arms... "
earstohear.net ^ | March 31, 1994. | Charley Reese

Posted on 07/27/2014 7:17:27 AM PDT by virgil283

"But when the men and women take off their uniforms and return to their homes and assume responsibility for their own and their families’ safety, suddenly the politicians don’t trust them to own a gun. This is pure elitism. … Gun control is not about guns or crime. It is about an elite that fears and despises the common people.“

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Reference
KEYWORDS: banglist; secondamendment
"It is both illogical and inconsistent for a government to say people have a right to life and a right to self-defense but no right to own the tools necessary to defend their lives.

It is illogical for a government that says its police have no obligation to provide individual protection to deny people the means to protect themselves.

It is immoral for a government that repeatedly releases predators to prey on people to tell those victims they cannot have a weapon for self-defense. It’s stupid for a government that can’t control criminals, drugs or illegal immigrants to claim it can take guns away from criminals only if honest folks will give up theirs." -- Charley Reese (1937-2013) American syndicated columnist Orlando Sentinel,...H/T American Digest ......

1 posted on 07/27/2014 7:17:27 AM PDT by virgil283
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To: virgil283

Government fears the people...LIBERTY. People fear the government...TYRANNY!!!!


2 posted on 07/27/2014 7:33:40 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: virgil283

It reminds me of the last scene in “First Blood” where Rambo was saying basically the same thing. All that experience and he couldn’t even get a job in a car wash.


3 posted on 07/27/2014 7:38:06 AM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: SkyDancer

Rambo could always work for Blackwater.


4 posted on 07/27/2014 7:41:40 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Farmer Dean

Fantasy vs reality.


5 posted on 07/27/2014 8:08:21 AM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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All that experience and he couldn’t even get a job in a car wash.

...job parking cars!

6 posted on 07/27/2014 10:20:54 AM PDT by xone
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To: Farmer Dean
Rambo could always work for Blackwater.

No, 'he had only one job, to kill.'

7 posted on 07/27/2014 10:22:38 AM PDT by xone
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To: xone

Wow. Gee, thanks for that correction. If anyone wants the real answer to a post all you have to do is put in the wrong one.


8 posted on 07/27/2014 11:05:02 AM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: SkyDancer

I note the sarcasm, but if one is going to quote from such an iconic scene, you must get it right. Besides, Rambo would never work in a carwash at that stage of his career, too ‘team’ oriented. With Krakauer and Delmar Berry dead, John was a lone wolf.


9 posted on 07/27/2014 11:20:23 AM PDT by xone
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