From:	Robert Watkins <robertdw@*******.com.au>
Subject:	Re: Commercials & global "culture"
Date:	Sat, 25 May 96 14:13:14 +1030

>A few years later when independence had been achieved one of the first
>things that the new government did to ensure that we as a nation would never
>be opressed again was to give all citizens access to guns.
>
> The second amendment to our Constitution guarentees every citizen the
> right to keep and bear arms.

But strangely enough, possession of artillery was never mentioned. And
tanks and fighter aircraft and bombers and bomb-making gear, and all that
other stuff, THAT's still illegal...

The original constitution said that the Vice Prez had to be the other guy
in the race, too. That document was made for a different time and a
different culture.


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