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   "Dechucka"  wrote in message   
   news:86Wdnd9gy4ijwsfMnZ2dnUVZ_rGdnZ2d@westnet.com.au...   
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   > "F Murtz"  wrote in message   
   > news:gQs6t.177$e66.114@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com...   
   >> ozarkheart@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 08:50:37 +1100, "Dechucka"    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:sshgl89t7qtihmu8v59ianojcgefn0667s@4ax.com...   
   >>>>> On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:50:30 +1000, F Murtz    
   >>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> ozarkheart@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:30:50 -0700 (PDT), bringyagrogalong   
   >>>>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> ozarkhe...@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> "yaputya"  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> Here's somethingh the gun-nuts won't want to see....   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> Shields told host Judy Woodruff, "You know, Judy, the reality   
   >>>>>>>>>> is --   
   >>>>>>>>>> and it's a terrible reality -- since Robert Kennedy died in the   
   >>>>>>>>>> Ambassador Hotel on June 4, 1968, more Americans have died from   
   >>>>>>>>>> gunfire than died in . all the wars of this country's history,   
   >>>>>>>>>> from   
   >>>>>>>>>> the Revolutionary through the Civil War, World War I, World War   
   >>>>>>>>>> II,   
   >>>>>>>>>> in those 43 years. ... I mean, guns are a problem. And I think   
   >>>>>>>>>> they still have to be confronted."   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> Is that counting the unarmed people that died at the hands of   
   >>>>>>>>> governments led by Stalin? Hitler? Mao? In Cambodia? In Africa?   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> And what difference would it have made if they were armed, you   
   >>>>>>>> dull-   
   >>>>>>>> witted gimp?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Probably a lot in those days,but not now with modern armoury   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> That is open to debate. But you made the point - probably a lot in   
   >>>>> those days.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> but not today   
   >>>   
   >>> Why not?   
   >>>   
   >> Because you can have an army of individuals and do the lot in with a   
   >> remote controlled bomb   
   >   
   >   
   > i.e the shitfight in Afghanistan   
      
      
   One the Soviets clearly lost   
   Ditto for the Soviets and later the Russians in Chechnya.   
   And in the US, there are more than deer hunters equipped with high-powered   
   sniper rifles in JUST FOUR (4) States of the Union, than there are police   
   and military in the US.   
      
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