>> Russell McMahon wrote:
>> > As for "snooping"  and ""unlicensed"".
>> > If you require a gun licence to possess a gun and you possess a 
>> > gun
>> > and not a licence then you and/or the gun are not licensed in 
>> > that
>> > respect. The same applied here to TVs, ...

>> Russell,
>> Surely you recognize the distinction between and gun and a TV 
>> receiver!!!???

> Perhaps he comes from politically repressive dictatorship?

I have no problem at all with the above being said *BUT* I find it 
hard to understand what point is being made by the 1st response and 
even harder to understand the second.

I'd be genuinely interested in knowing how my expressing the concept 
that 'not having a licence for something leads to it (or you depending 
on the particular arrangement) being unlicensed leads anyone to the 
conclusion that I "come from" a politically repressive dictatorship.

If I understand the US system, and I think I understand it well enough 
for application to the present discussion, US citizens sought and 
obtained the right to bear arms because they thought that their 
government might on some occasions turn out to be a repressive 
dictatorship (which they may need their furry arms to combat).

In free and democratic countries like the one I "come from" the vast 
majority of citizens are happy to forgo the right to furry arms 
without a licence as we are not overly fearful that our government may 
morph into a repressive dictatorship.




        Russell



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