tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188417.post8501789428039729563..comments2023-11-08T07:13:21.791-06:00Comments on I really don't like the word Blog: Re: FW: RE: Info about LibertarianOokami Snowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10396649763195640076noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188417.post-24060474415856713072008-08-23T09:36:00.000-05:002008-08-23T09:36:00.000-05:00I'll take the clean air and give up the firearm. A...I'll take the clean air and give up the firearm. And I'll pay taxes in order to help the poor, and have roads and all the other stuff I enjoy. Like being able to mail a letter for next to nothing. What I really hate is that when I travel to other places in the world, our country is a laughing stock, or we are feared and hated. Anything other than more of what we've had. <BR/><BR/>Obama will get my vote, I genuinely believe he will make a difference.Willie Baronethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01021312930184983177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188417.post-22708079761347049012008-08-21T08:45:00.000-05:002008-08-21T08:45:00.000-05:00I think that we should protect the rights and free...I think that we should protect the rights and freedoms that our forefathers gave to us. Owning a firearm, yes. Clean air in a restaurant, not so much. <BR/><BR/>I am sorry that you feel that if someone has a handgun when you are on a walk then you worry, but the people that have concealed carry permits actually make me feel safer. I don't want to carry a handgun, but I know that if I were to get in trouble their might be someone else that can help me out. Disarming the good people is not a way to beat the bad one.<BR/><BR/>As for clean air in restaurants and hospitals, I don't want to sit in other peoples smoke, but I don't want the government to ban it. I would restaurants and hospitals themselves to ban it. We have to realize that a company or a person making a choice about what to allow is hugely different than the government deciding what we can and can't do. <BR/><BR/>The governments role is to allow us to choose. We must choose wisely. We must also dislike the idea of letting the government make choices for us.Ookami Snowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10396649763195640076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188417.post-70472742394704443132008-08-21T07:53:00.000-05:002008-08-21T07:53:00.000-05:00But how does the government protect you from other...But how does the government protect you from other people taking your freedoms without taking their freedoms? If you have the freedom to breathe clean air at work and at restaurants (hospitals and other buildings as well), then someone loses the right to smoke their cigarettes there. If I have the right and freedom to walk places without worry, then maybe someone else loses the right to own a handgun. Whose rights and freedoms are more worth protecting?Blessum Yellowstone Triphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01986787012428833678noreply@blogger.com