What???

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I assume that you do not ride a horse or walk everywhere. You probably drive a car -- on roads -- roads that are paved -- with street lights. You get my point -- taxes pay for all of that. Same for police and fire departments. Are you married? The paperwork was filed in a courthouse paid for by taxes. Do you take any perecription or OTC medications? I bet that your BOB or PSK has at least some medication in it. I am glad that we have the FDA to make sure that those medications don't kill you.


Governments get a price break on energy while my bill goes up. That isn't taxes.
That marriage license was paid for out of my pocket, not my taxes.
Have you checked lately to see how many meds have been recalled (after passing the FDA) because they are killing people?

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Also, the days of the minutemen are over. No nation could expect to be defeneded by a bunch of volunteers who just show up with their squirrel guns. We need a military. You can argue about how large it should be and what we should be doing with it, but we still need one.


The framers of the constitution were oppose to a "standing army", and wrote the second ammendment to the constitution to provide for exactly this, as well as keeping our own government in check. Many governments have decided that invading the US would be a lost cause because of the RKBA. It would involve door to door searches to remove the weapons in the hands of the private citizens.

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I notice that you are on the internet -- which was born from a DARPA (military) project.


The Internet was founded by a group of scientist in Europe who were looking for a way to communicate, and share data quickly, and efficiently. This wasn't a "Darpa Project". Although they may want to take credit for it.