<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." Â And well, you never know when your neighbor will decide to come at you with fast attack drones! Â </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..." Â Of course it might be sensible to have background checks and licensing, but that's sheer socialism and big government meddling... Â ; Â )</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-si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