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Gun Control & RKBA

DetlefK

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5. The Patriot Act.

Reply to sarisataka (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 10:23 AM

Oct 2015

It would be a start to have that discussion at all.

"Freedom&quot TM) is a core-part of US-culture and nothing of it may ever be given away. Any discussion about that topic is unpatriotic and forbidden.

And after 9/11 the Patriot Act was passed and the US happily gave away the very freedom it had defended up to that moment, again, without any discussion.

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