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With apologies to our esteemed Moderator...
Alcohol/tobacco are "legal" because they pay lots and lots of taxes.
How about taxing firearms and ammunition the same as alcohol and tobacco?
Or are the relative taxation levels already appropriate to the amount of social damage?
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In the past - in colonial Indonesia - ground glass in the onion soup a favorite way to do away with harsh masters - if your wife wants you dead - a tax on bullets may not be enough ........ maybe make a better choice in wives, maids or ones actions may be more proactive in life extension- butcher knife speaks of "terminating the unit with extreme predjudice" wasnt Paul harvey always expounding about the "rest of the story" may apply to this local act of violence.....
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So are "well regulated militia" in the same sentence.
Carol
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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Just read today of a 76 yr old woman that called for a heating repair. The repair man found that someone has been living under her house cut a heat duct and diverted it to keep warm. Dead beer cans and liquor bottles all over. Creepy
Sounds like he have some "squatter's rights ?
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And none of this is relevant to what appears to be a Hilo love triangle spat. Sounds like the lesson is more about watching your back if you are sneaking around.
"It was a majority decision to descend into the Dark Ages. Don't worry, be happy, bang on da drum all day!"
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If we are going to stray and make this a second amendment topic - may I direct your attention to the whiskey rebellion - first use of "well regulated militia" by the feds as discussed in the 2nd ----- to put down a group of Americans (in Ohio if I remember right-) who didnt want to pay the first federal tax levied on distillation of spirits......
now lets see if we can weave that fact (and the 2nd amendment) into this topic.... grin
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How did a story about a knifing turn into yet another gun topic?
Frank, as I said, 20x as many murders in the US vs UK so that's a rate of 20 divided by 5 = 4 times as many per capita. Thanks to guns.
There was no wife, just the girlfriend. Did anybody hear this over the scanner when it happened?
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Butcher knife between the shoulder blades is what I read... the lady in question first reported as the victims wife per the 911 call " reporting "
the topic then seemed to migrate to 2nd amendment and violence in monarchies as far as I could tell -
the topic seems to be more appropriate to domestic violence and the the vast amount of same in east hawaii imho
I'd also segway to lack of education as in my opinion that is the root cause for person on person violence
all the gun stuff a stretch...
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PaulW, that would be 26 FEWER, not 26 less. In addition to being a gun owner, I have a degree in English.
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1) Lloyd Rubio was stabbed in the abdomen
2) He was not married, he lived with his girlfriend and children.
3) Karen Rubio who was listed as part owner of house was his mother not his wife!
4) Every person is presumed innocent until found guilty!
5) oink, the link you posted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4581871.stm
is dated May 2005, it was based on the research and recommendation by A&E Doctors, the ban request did not pass! Right wingers and gun supporters are using this story to bolster their argument on the Second Amendment, in response to the backlash on gun control!
