4th ammendment and Cryptography

[Dave Taffs]

sender: Phil Karn <karn at qualcomm.com>:

> Worst of all are the complete loonies (some apparently on this list)
> who assert that guns are an essential protection against a tyrannical
> US Federal Government. Those who believe this have apparently never
> heard of the US Civil War, because the South tried exactly this over
> 130 years ago. (They failed, BTW.)  It succeeded only in destroying
> most of an entire generation of Americans, along with much of the
> country. And that was before some rather significant advances in US
> military weaponry, vis a vis privately owned weapons.
> ...
> Phil

This guy scares me more than any number of "gun nuts"...

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