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Originally Posted by Gunkle
Because I want to. I am an upstanding citizen. It is the intent of how anything is used which used that can make an ordinary tool into a weapon.
Should all the cooks undergo felony background checks? Should the staff at the Fan Attic have to receive specialized training and licensing to have a pair of five inch scissors in their presence?
What I do, is my choice. If I cut the tags off of a new jersey then great. Shorten a straw for my kid, or cut off a hang nail ... it is my own bloody business.
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Maybe not the best word to use when you're a guy who brings a deadly weapon to a hockey game.
It's amazing what some people think is okay based on some perverse sense of "liberty".
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"For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan
Freedom consonant with responsibility.
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