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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Yeah, eating our own children. The problem is that Scalia and the US Supreme Court really screwed the American People with their bogus Federalist Society
(in vogue at Illiniwaks Law School) “originalist” interpretation of the Second Amendment in the Heller decision. The only part about that Opinion I liked is where Scalia actually said that guns would be useful if the US government becomes tyrannical.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Karen Aram via Peace-discuss<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 20, 2018 9:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Peace-discuss] The problems of gunownershipr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">For many years, long before the school shootings at Columbine, I have been arguing against US gun ownership. Realizing the high rate
of deaths in the US as a result of shootings, accidental or otherwise. Just compare to the UK where the police on the beat didn't carry firearms, Japan, where they make it extremely difficult and time consuming to obtain a weapon. Then we have Australia, a
culture of immigrants similar to that of the US, with the same "cowboy mentality" and a re</span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#1D2129">cord of genocide against their indigenous peoples.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#1D2129">Slavery and the need to control, is the major reason for the proliferation of weapons in the US from our very founding. Our Constitution
supporting a "well armed militia," was for that very purpose, legitimizing killings and lynchings of rebellious slaves. The one amendment we certainly have upheld while destroying most others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#1D2129">Today the problem of shootings in America is much bigger than just gun ownership. We have gone so far down that road, there is no longer any ability to shut the barn doors. It's tied up with our foreign
policy of war, interventions, and the proliferation of weapons, given they are the only thing we manufacture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#1D2129">Our drug wars, our incarceration of those committing victimless crimes, homelessness and debt, global warming, lack of medical care, and poverty is all part and parcel of the same for profit "system."
People including our children, unless privileged, are considered expendables.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#1D2129">Imperialism is the end stage of capitalism, and we are there, cannibalizing our own.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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