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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
There is not necessarily any connection between gun ownership and support for the Patriot Act. How do you even make that connection? Most gun owners I know (myself included) that support our Second Ammendment rights also vehemently oppose the Patriot Act. You will find gun owners generally are the greatest supporters of individual freedoms, and the greatest opponents of an intrussive government.
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The irony is the gun owners are screaming bloody murder, calling for politician's heads on platters, because they can't have the latest BFG, but I'll bet if we went back through the archives, we'd find the same people were also the most rabid
defenders of Bush's spying program and the PATRIOT act.