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Old 17th Oct 2009, 09:18
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If they're enemies of Christian, patriotic America, they deserve no equality.
I do hope this is said tongue-in-cheek.

What I also find interesting is the ideological inconsistency in US thinking: on the one hand there is mythical faith in the privately-owned firearm as the Great Equalizer (81 or 90 such firearms per 100 inhabitants there) and total opposition in the Great Equalizing powers that come with having your own set of nuclear weapons. After all, why shouldn't "little guy" countries be as equal as "little guy" Americans?
That would be down to the NPT that these countries signed up to. It was an agreement not to want to have a gun in return for a bit of help "paying the bills", so to speak. I wonder how many Americans would give up their firearms in return for a 10% reduction in income tax...
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