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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] ccp struggles<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>>…<span style='color:#222222'>Had we no right to bear arms, that number would have been in the millions. The right to bear arms protects Americans against the bad guys</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:#222222'>That isn't happening anywhere else despite the fact that other countries are populated by humans</span>…</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#222222'>bill w</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BillW, this is a paradoxical comment coming from you, for you are the one among us who was living during a time when the last western nation to have slavery murdered millions of its own unarmed citizens. This happened during your lifetime.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>During my lifetime, the Vietnam attacked its own and murdered unknown numbers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the present day, the people of the People’s Republic of China live in fear of the government of the People’s Republic of China, for good reason. The doctor and several others who warned of a new viral pneumonia in Wuhan were imprisoned, forced to recant and repudiate their warnings, a murderous act which resulted in the virus to spreading across the globe resulting in untold suffering and the deaths of over a hundred thousand people outside of People’s Republic of China, and unknown numbers within.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If the people of the People’s Republic of China had freedom of speech and the right to bear arms to maintain it, the government of the People’s Republic of China would have a bit more respect of the people of the People’s Republic of China, and would refrain from arresting them on an arbitrary whim because of what they post on the internet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The people of the People’s Republic of China must demand freedom of speech and the recognition of their right to bear arms.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>