Hi Ken,

  The problem being here not the weapons but who is facing down who. Its a lot easier to blow away a faceless, foreign bad guy - than your own people. No matter what the government the military is made up of people. 

                                              Trisha


>   the iraqis have done wery well as snipers, etc and
> you leftist are quick to point that out. the russians
> faced down an army armed with tanks. the russians army
> had nucks. they did not use them for the same reasons
> that american governments would not use them. they
> have to live on the land that would be rendered
> useless for their lifetimes.
>   if it were not for history you guys would have good
> points.
> 
> --- Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Hi Deri,
> >
> >    You said just what I thought!! - Also since the
> > feds have a well =
> > equipped military - not sure what a handgun can do
> > against a tank or =
> > APC, or Hummer - macine gun, etc.  I am sure the
> > founders never imagined =
> > the kind of weapons we have today or we would all
> > have the =
> > constitutional right to a bomb shelter, and
> > mandatory military service. =
> > I am truly curious what actual percentage of
> > Amercian own a gun - beyond =
> > the military and police, FBI, CIA and other alphabet
> > soup agencies.=20
> >
> >    How are things across the pond these days?
> >
> >                                      Trisha
> >
> >
> > > On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 4:38 pm, you wrote:
> > > > as far as gun control. putting all the bs about
> > > > hunting and sceet shooting aside where it should
> > be.
> > > > the founders put gun ownership in so the future
> > > > oppresive governments could be overthrown.
> > > >
> > >=20
> > > Hmm, difficult to fight off Poison Gas and other
> > WMD (which your gov =
> > has) with
> > > handguns, at the time the founders wrote that they
> > were saying the =
> > populace
> > > should have the same weapons as the gov. Personal
> > Nukes? Luverly!!
> > >=20
> > > Cheers
> > >=20
> > > Deri
> 
> 
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