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To: barmag25

I also think 350 million is low.

Back in the early 80s, I attended a speech by the late Arkady Shevchenko, then the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect to the West. He had been their top guy at the UN.

He spoke, interestingly, at KENNESAW COLLEGE — and we all know what Kennesaw is famous for! I’m proud to have played a small role in helping Mayor Darvin Purdy get that legislation through the Kennesaw City Council.

Shevchenko’s talk dealt with the clear intent of the leadership of the old Soviet Union to somehow take America. He mentioned their ICBMs and the nuclear blackmail threat they posed.

Then he broke from his prepared remarks and offered the audience this wisdom:

“The leaders of my country are as AFRAID OF YOUR 200 MILLION PRIVATE FIREARMS as they are of your ICBMs. NEVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS.”

Frankly — and, while he had to be careful as he was under FBI protection at the time, Shevchenko alluded to this in his remarks — I’m as concerned about some domestic tyrant (say, a Hillary, Nancy Pelosi, Barack HUSSEIN Obama or Chuck Schumer) as I am about some foreign enemy.

And it is THAT threat about which the Founding Fathers were concerned that prompted them to leave us the Second Amendment.

The BIG question is: WILL WE KEEP IT?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73SsNFgBO4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg9q9sxJFnA
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11 posted on 06/10/2010 6:45:54 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Dick Bachert

this Kennesaw? http://kennesawcutlery.com/AboutUs.aspx

I just got some good quality knives from them, price was right too.


22 posted on 06/10/2010 6:52:53 PM PDT by tumblindice (Why *does* Obama have an apparently phony SS#?)
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To: Dick Bachert

Kennesaw...my birthplace.


23 posted on 06/10/2010 6:53:06 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen
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To: Dick Bachert
I also think 350 million is low.

Those are only the ones they know about. Drug dealers rarely register their guns. Then there are war bring backs and old firearms that have been in families for over three quarters of a century. Most if not all have fallen off the record books. And a lot of people that live in gun grabbing states like Illinois, though of course none I would ever know about or have met, like it that way.
58 posted on 06/10/2010 8:01:32 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: Dick Bachert

Most mathmeticans would rate crimes commited with guns as ‘’statistcally’’ zero, when you place the figure up against 350,000,000 or even 200,000,000. But then there are those who make their living, getting little ole pink haired ladies to give them a check for $25,000 for whatever they’re pushing, to often it is anti-gun owenership they use.


93 posted on 06/11/2010 4:35:11 AM PDT by Waco
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