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ixtow wrote:
NOTE: These guys apparently don't know how to properly compress non-musical recordings, the download is 23MB.
50mb connectivity has it's uses. I realize it's not beneficial for those in the sticks.
If it would please everybody, and breaks no laws, I would happily record, and release, not-for-profit of course, a re-recorded, and compressed version of the audio.
To address the conversation directly, I noticed a fair amount of deference to hypothetical "feelings" and "experiences" that Paul Helmke claims to have had with individuals who express some sort of fear about the right to keep and bear arms.
I find it odd that we would feel the need to express such fear to firearm carrying individuals as we move day in and day out through our lives. It seems to me that it has become expected that we rely on our neighbors for:
Neighborhood Watch
Doctors, Nurses, and other life saving careers.
Retention of our most personal identifying information (Social Security, Drivers Licenses, etc.)
Operation of 4,000lb SUV's at high rates of speed, in highly complex traffic patterns.
Enforcement of laws.
Handling our finances (Bankers, CPA's, Tax Advisors etc.)
Repair of our critical vehicles systems (Brakes, Cooling, etc.)
Emergency Response and Fire services
Legal Defense
and the list is endless.
...yet somehow people attempt to assign great danger to an individual that we can obviously trust for all of the above, who simply exercises the right to be able to defend his family?
I realize a significant portion of the misunderstanding is blatant naivety. Significant, copious amounts of individuals have never touched a firearm, let alone develop any sort of rational fear on any credible basis against them.
I have stared at my rifle as it sat out of its case for a good hour or so before, and my family is very much alive.
Can anyone elaborate as to what I'm missing here?
