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Well, I thought it was just a bit too subtle for you, Liam. I mean, if you'd stuck a few sexual connotations in there, I'd have caught onto the joke right away.
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Where do people get the idea that Australians can't bear arms. Let me rephrase that. Where apart from that blithering imbecile Charlton Heston do people get the diea that Australians don't have guns? Last time I looked, we had one of the highest ownership rates in the world.
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I think it's one of those misinterpeted stereotypes like how most Aussies have Koalas, Dingos, Kangaroos and other assorted animals for pets. Or how everyone there lives like a bushman. I could comment on Kiwi's too, but Charles would likely ban me for that comment.
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"My lovely gun-toting state? Pennsylvania? Let's see, I think the last time government troops were needed in Pennsylvania was... The Whiskey Rebellion, back in the late 18th Century?"
I'm from Pennsylvania. My family is Pennsylvania Dutch and our family line goes back to Germantown in the 1690's.
Actually, the use of government troops in PA has been a little more recent. Besides the battle of Gettysburg, I'm thinking of the great Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Homestead strike in 1892. Pennsylvania has a lot of bloody ground from the industrial strife of the 19th century.
I'm also a gun owner, but I don't make that the core of my identity, nor do I oppose gun regulations in principle.
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Ah! You know what, that's absolutely right. I'd forgotten about the use of troops during the early strike era. (I could argue semantics about how they shouldn't have been used, but even I know that'd be quibbling)
So, I stand corrected on that point.
However, it was STILL over a century ago.
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