<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Rafal wrote:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">" But usually not over and over and over again. Even the perennial identity thread is less sticky.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Hey, let's talk about guns. We haven't had a shitstorm about guns in something like, twenty years or so.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Here is my take - free machine guns for every man, woman and child. And mandatory open carry in schools.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">School should be fun, too, no?"</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">>>></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">This is the iconic and far-thinking Extropian list, and yet we are going to discuss mundane guns?!!!! I think every citizen should have access to rail guns and high powered lasers! And they will need home nuclear reactors to power them... I am discussing this as a home defense measure, since "every man's house is his castle." And well, you never know when your neighbor will decide to come at you with fast attack drones! </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Is it not libertarian to say, "if you can afford it, you can have it..." Of course it might be sensible to have background checks and licensing, but that's sheer socialism and big government meddling... ; )</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">John</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Tara Maya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tara@taramayastales.com" target="_blank">tara@taramayastales.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>I believe that’s called Switzerland. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On Jan 29, 2017, at 6:58 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_3633086457063580027Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div class="m_3633086457063580027WordSection1" style="font-family:Optima-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="m_3633086457063580027Apple-converted-space"> </span>extropy-chat [<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@<wbr>lists.extropy.org</a>]<span class="m_3633086457063580027Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="m_3633086457063580027Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Rafal Smigrodzki<br><br><b><u></u><u></u></b></span></div><div><div><div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">- free machine guns for every man, woman and child…Rafał <u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There is no such thing as a free machine gun. Someone has to pay for it. If such a thing is to be provided, it should be up to the state governments to supply them.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span class=""><span style="font-family:Optima-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">______________________________<wbr>_________________</span><br style="font-family:Optima-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Optima-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">extropy-chat mailing list</span><br style="font-family:Optima-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Optima-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br style="font-family:Optima-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Optima-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-<wbr>chat</a></span></div></blockquote></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><div>
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