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Old 02-15-2018, 05:04 PM   #309
tarcone
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Originally Posted by ISiddiqui View Post
This is really mythologizing bullshit. Not to mention "Go West, young man" was first coined about 75 years after the country's founding.

The proof in the pudding is after 9/11 when people willingly gave up all sorts of freedoms, so to claim that fixing gun violence is too hard because the myth that the US was found on 'freedoms' is just complete nonsense.

I never said it would be too hard. I said I believe in freedom,

Also, you mentioned the 1850s. And "Go West, young man" would have been coined in the 1850s, 75 years after the country was founded.
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