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Old 02-03-2012, 02:36 AM   #1
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Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun
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Old 02-03-2012, 02:41 AM   #2
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Because an armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.


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Oh yea, good video.
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I choose a gun because carrying a cop is too heavy.......
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His message in that context is good and necessary. But I reject his idea that government has and should have a monopoly on force. That might work for the Netherlands, but it doesn't flush in this country.
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Because deer charge when they're roped.
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Because an armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.
"... monotonous regularity" ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Always loved that line.


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