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Default The U.S. Government Is Trying To Take Away Your Pocket Knives!

Han wrote:
Swingman wrote in
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Once again, you ONLY have to look at the UK to see where this country
will be in five to ten years.

It's that simple ... no crystal ball needed.


All well and true (maybe). But what to do to prevent another Timothy
McVeigh or James von Brunn from murdering innocent people.


Nothing more than what we're doing.

While tragic, the actions of McVeigh or von Brunn are the price we must pay
for freedom.

You don't ban the practice of medicine because of the occasional screw-up
due to incompetence, error, or negligence. Those you accept as regrettably
inevitable while trying to minimize their appearance with actions short of
interfering with all the cases where the regulation would get in the way.