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America has a portion of its population that believes in something called Second Amendment. I think it had to do with living in jungles and defending yourself from poachers and predators. Aka Right to Bear Arms. Today Bare Arms are more in vogue and competing with the rights to bear arms. Bears are nowhere to be seen so we are not sure if they have arms or can use arms. Best left at arms length I say. So when little children get killed they announce that we should not mess with gun control laws and that since our forefathers have decided it was okay to bear arms we must continue to follow the idealogy. But wait! When Korea or Iran asks to make nukes we decide that they cannot have it since that would be stupid. You see you cannot have everyone decide to have their own arms. That would be outright dangerous to our well being. We do not know if they can use these arms. What if they set one off? Well - actually if you gave everyone the know how on making it then perhaps they will not since its the last option in chess? Serves no purpose if you too get wiped out? So its a no win option anyway. Why bother with it - let them eat cake. But on the subject of gun control we will continue to defend our rights and lefts since some of us shoot with our left arm. Go figure.

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  1. RajendraApril 9, 2013 at 9:56 PM

    Weapons of mass destruction are not arms, but brains, if we have any left. If we don't, we deserve the slingshots of fortune.

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