[ExI] Upon pondering your freedoms

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jul 5, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:

> At 03:42 PM 7/5/2008 -0700, Avant wrote:
>
>> In that same year there were 45,520 automobile related deaths from  
>> all causes.
>> Both are out of a population of 296,507,061. That would mean that  
>> guns are
>> safer than automobiles. Would you take away my car next?
>
> This is the rhetorical path this list has lurched down too often  
> before. I thought it was safe to inquire in a contained manner into  
> the likely meaning of the 2nd Amendment, once Spike had offered his  
> opinion of the fool judges who thought it had something to do with  
> militias. But it looks as if the Great Gun Attractor is doing its  
> evil work anyway. Stop it now, before we all go blind!
>

Bugger that.  You don't command the discussions here.   You are  
welcome as always to delete or not participate in discussions that you  
do not find worthwhile of course.  But don't go trying to shut others  
up.

- samantha