It is delightful to hear that you are no longer a law enforcement officer. I wish that condition were more prevalent.
Apparently, there is nothing wrong with Robert Ziegler airing his views on the e-gold forum, as you seem to agree with him. At least my message to the forum pointed out that there is a strong connection between owning gold and having means of private self-defense.
It is gratifying that you recognize that bearing arms is a right, even though you think nobody but other law enforcement officers should be allowed to exercise it. However, I think you are mistaken in writing "the right to bear [arms] has nothing to do with e-gold."
The liberty to own e-gold along with all the other liberties individuals enjoy are protected only by their willingness and ability to defend their freedom and property. Those who don't understand that self-defense is an individual freedom and an individual obligation are much worse off. To depend on the government is a bad idea. You should probably read _Dial 911 and Die_.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0964230445/inspacetoday
I'm glad to learn that you were an arms dealer. How did you choose which ex-patriates to sell guns to?
I, too, have seen first hand the effects of projectile weapons, including knives, arrows, shiriken, and bullets on the human body. I think you are a poor security consultant if you advise people to come to a gunfight armed with pepper spray. I can take a face full of pepper spray and still hit my target in a close group from fifteen feet. If you can hit me with pepper spray from further away, I'll test my targetting ability at that distance, too. It seems to me that pepper spray is a good way to upset an armed man, and if the results of the 1968 Chicago riots are any useful gauge by which to judge, upsetting armed men by hurling baggies full of fecal matter or spraying pepper spray in their faces isn't wise.
> leave you without the psychological trauma of > gun use.
I don't see why gun use creates psychological trauma whereas defending oneself with another, much less effective weapon would. On the whole, I'm much more comfortable with the idea of having psychological trauma from using a gun while yet being alive as opposed to having the joy-joy feeling of using pepper-spray for three seconds before my assailant blows my brains out. Blunt force trauma is so much less fun than psycho trauma.
> As for limiting crime, the majority of crimes > are committed with stolen guns.
Do you have a source for this absurd claim, or are you just making up facts for grins? The majority of crimes in the USA are prevented by individual gun owners. The statistics are overwhelming. Most crime prevention does not involve law enforcement officers.
The definitive study on the subject is by John Lott: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226493644/inspacetoday
By the way, one can buy these books with e-gold by contacting Joe Moorman of PlanetGold.com or one of the Ians, I think it is Ian Green?
> By owning a gun you are promoting crime rather > than fighting against it.
You sound to me like an evil litttle thug who wants to take my guns away. In Texas history we have a nice little flag created in Goliad in 1835. Seems Generalissimo Santa Anna wanted the town of Goliad to return a cannon sent there in 1825 or so. The men of Goliad put the words "come and take it" on their flag. In the end, Santa Anna came, but he couldn't take it. Imagine me waving that flag right now.
> I would think that as the owner of cambist, > goldbarter and goldbarter holdings you would > permote the benefits of e-gold rather than gun > ownership benefits.
I don't know this word "permote." I do, very often, in many fora, promote the benefits of owning e-gold. I happen to know of a gun range in Florida, where I've done some target shooting, where e-gold may be spent for range fees. As for GoldBarter.com, gun parts have been auctioned there, to my knowledge.
I'm surprised that you think that someone who has ideas about individual liberty and gun ownership should have to conform to your ill-tempered and poorly conceived notions about who should own guns. But, nothing you've written makes any sense to me.
Why did you sell guns to ex-patriates if you think that gun ownership is a bad thing? Or is it just that you are the only arbiter of who should own a gun?
Finally, it is a mistaken idea that I am "the owner" of the things you name. I am one of the owners. The others can speak for themselves about their views.
The twenty million people in Texas own an average of five guns each, and an average of a few milligrams of e-gold each. Me, I only own four guns, and a few dozen grams of e-gold. Maybe I'm not holding up the side. Anyone who wants to sell me a gun in exchange for e-gold is welcome to contact me by private e-mail. E-bullion, GoldMoney, 1MDC, and Crowne Gold as happily spent.
The 300 million or so people in the USA own an average of one gun each, and nearly no e-gold at all (on average). I doubt if it would be very practical for anyone in this location to promote the ownership of e-gold and criticize the ownership of guns, even if someone were silly enough to have that inclination.
Regards,
Jim http://cambist.net/
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