<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 9:09 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-8325683740562535855WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-8325683740562535855WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><i> </i></span><i>John, I had perceived you as a guy who doesn’t trust the US government. </i></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I sure as hell do not trust the current head of the US government, but most rednecks with shotguns believe every word he says with religious fervor, so I don't trust them either.</font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-8325683740562535855WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…But things are very different in America because the US army knows that an angry redneck with a shotgun…</span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The angry redneck and the military are on the same side.</i></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Then why the hell do we need the damn redneck and his idiotic shotgun?</font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-8325683740562535855WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…Because of this 19,510 Americans had the freedom to get murdered last year (6 per 100,000)…</span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-8325683740562535855WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>Had we no right to bear arms, that number would have been in the millions. </i></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">And that's why millions of Canadians were murdered last year.... oh wait....</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div></div></div>