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Will you gun-lovers please stop harping on about how it's "a constitutional right" for every idiot to have his/her own private arsenal?!? It's a bloody stupid idea! I'm not going over it again, but just for once stop reading your constitution and using that to decide what's sensible, that's like taking your opinions from the back of a cornflakes packet (a 200 year old cornflakes packet at that) and think about what the real benefit of everyone having guns is, and what the benefit of a gun-free society (except for lifestyle criminals) would be. I recommend that just for a change you remember that America isn't the whole world and that there are other countries that manage just as well (if not better) without a gun-carrying population.
On another point, what is it with your phobia for anything even slightly socialist? I don't think there's any danger of the US turning to communism any time soon. Some socialist ideas are damn good if you ask me - like a public health service for instance. How about a nationalised air traffic control service? I think that there are some things that benefit from being controlled from a central point. Not that this needs to be the government, but the government should work on different principles to a company, ie the best interests of the country rather than the best interests of their profits.
I expect you'll start calling me a communist or someting now but I assure you I'm not. I like the free market economy and I certainly wouldn't want to swap it, but as with most things in life, there are good ideas and bad ideas in the different methods. Just because something smells like it might be vaguely socialist isn't a good reason to dismiss it.
Why do you affiliate yourself with a particular political party? Do you actually believe that any one party represents all your opinions? I wouldn't dream of calling myself 'a labour supporter' or 'a conservative supporter' or 'a lib dem supporter' or anything like that, because I know damn well that none of them actually represent me properly. I don't understand why people argue, saying 'you democrats' or 'you republicans' and 'well I'm a democrat/republican so I think...', it just seems like a really odd way of thinking.
Anyway I'm going to shut up now.
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Ummmmmm.....J????
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Gore never had a real job and the job he has had in
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What about Gore's service time in the Army in Vietnam?
Which, I might add, Georgie got out of by joining the Nat'l
Guard.
DerFarm
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HarryW
You make some very valid points and your opinion well taken. Don't feel that you have no right to state your opinion here. I agree with you on many points. It's nice to see that there are some rational people out there.
