From: Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Date: Thu May 27 1999 - 16:43:35 MDT
Date sent: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:05:15 -0700
To: extropians@extropy.com
From: James Rogers <jamesr@best.com>
Subject: Re: Guns and Slaves
Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> At 03:31 PM 5/27/99 -0500, Joe Dees wrote:
> >
> >Do you feel that the prohibition against owning a thermonuclear
> >weapon, or Anthrax bacillus, or Sarin, or C-4, or Botulinin toxin, or
> >even a submachine gun, renders you a slave? Then you have a
> >pretty stultified and monochromatic view of what freedom's all about.
>
>
> It doesn't render you a slave, but it makes you an easy mark for those that
> would enslave you.
>
Slavery is illegal here.
>
> The difference between a free man without a means to defend himself and a
> slave is vanishingly small; they are separated only by random circumstance
> that neither control.
>
The difference between a free man and a dead one is one person
with a gun who shouldn't have it.
>
> -James Rogers
> jamesr@best.com
>
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