Why Every Woman Should Carry a Gun

vikorr wrote:

but perhaps you weren't aware that many people shipped to Australia were shipped for stealing bread / food.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

He who steals brings the consequences thereof upon himself

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True enough.
The question is, should stealing food to feed your family be punishable
by separating you from your family?

As long as the criminal HAD NOTICE
that this was a possible penalty for the crime,
when he chose to take his chances: yes.

I doubt that larceny was the only way to keep his family from starving.
Did everyone else starve, who failed to steal ?

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Personally, the main contributing factor to a person stealing food
would be the failure of the Govt of the time, food being a necessity of life -
it hardly seems something punishable by deportation and hard labor.

In America, government was not erected as a means of GETTING FOOD.
It was established primarily for defense and for vengeance.

I don 't have sufficient information about your government to comment
upon its authority or its responsibilities.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

U take me for a historical ignoramus ?

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People in the US, generally speaking, appear rather ignorant of the rest of the world.
I would not have thought that the name Botany Bay
would have even registered as worthy of mention in US schools.

The source of America 's political and jurisprudential history is England,
which banished some of its criminals there.
We knew about it. In a sense, at the time, we were part of the same polity.

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Aside from that, no insult is meant.
Everyone, including you and I, are ignorant of many things.

SO STIPULATED.

I bet it was a six pack. Nothing better than a six pack to hold your gum.

No, but I did have a gum holder on my belt,
which was way cool and pretty sexy too :-D

Don't you wish you could throw some people into the dungeon
and throw the key away?

(some people = any gun fanatic)

Hey cjhsa :-D

Check out my new gum ;-)

Merry Christmas everyone :-D

In court, I asked a witness whether she was chewing gum.
She said that she swallowed it.

I apologized to her for that.
I only had in mind that we cud hear her testimony better
without obstructions. I did not mean to scare her into doing that.


David

Montana wrote:

Hey cjhsa :-D

Check out my new gum ;-)

Merry Christmas everyone :-D

Merry Christmas, Montana

Is it an automatic ?