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echo: guns
to: GUY PUTNAM
from: EARNEST PADGETTE
date: 1996-09-04 11:38:00
subject: We?

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GP>Communications is right up there under guns in importance, IMO.  The
GP>difference being that, if absolutely necessary, we can take back our comm
GP>with our guns, but it would be hard to get our guns back with
GP>communication.  But I must admit that the guns wouldn't be real effective
GP>with zero communications.  Still, if it got down to having to choose
GP>between the two, I think I would take the guns.
GP>When the various Socialist regimes have taken over around the world, they
GP>always go after freedom of communication about as hard as the guns.  Maybe
GP>the founding fathers thought communications was more important, since they
GP>made it the first article of the Bill of Rights.
        It would be hard to argue either one as being the most
        important. Without communications, we wouldn't know when to
        fight; or what to fight about. Or even if we were winning.
        They're *all* important. Ernie P.
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