>>>Sure, I understand that, but if, as you said, "it would not have occurred to any of the Founders that the Government could
http://www.levelextreme.com/SupportArea.aspx?Session=6B4A6843496177466B73303D2075674E685967393273352B525168396C734F4A44586745672F5253682F694B55[Canada] forbid citizens to own guns", how did it occur to them to make sure? Most times, if something could not occur to me, I generally don't rush out and make sure of doing something about it.
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>>Okay, I get it. Should have said "It would not have ocurred to any of them that the Government should or should be allowed to forbid citizens to own guns."
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>Hah! Pedantry prevails! I guess I'd better go back to using smilies. You probably would have figured it out right away.
At least we are not in Iran or Saudi Arabia , where they do not have the right bare arms. !
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
