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There is not necessarily any connection between gun ownership and support for the Patriot Act. How do you even make that connection?

Nobody is clamoring for the right to own an "automatic assault rifle". I'm not sure where you get that, either. You are increasingly sounding like a victim of the massive barrage of anti-gun propoganda circulating today. Your clear lack of understanding (and negative stereotyping) of gun owners, their motivations, their politics, and their firearms themselves all indicate that. Your statements demonstrate that you have no personal experience with, or exposure to, any of this. All you seem to know about guns and gun owners is simply regurgitated propoganda from the anti-gun crowd. It sounds like you have bought into most of it. That's too bad; you should make an effort to educate yourself a bit better on these topics. You will be surprised how far off the propoganda-fueled common wisdom really is.

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