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Thommy,
Your logic here is circular: because you believe the expression "to bear arms" to have only a collective, military meaning, you dismiss contrary examples. There is no analysis of variation in usage supporting your contention that such examples are erroneous or idiosyncratic. The statement that gun haters quote from Gary Wills, that "one does not bear arms against a rabbit", is irrelevant. The reason one does not "bear arms against a rabbit" is that "against" implies hostile action, but one does not normally consider rabbits to be the enemy, even if one is hunting them for their food and skin. If, in a postapocalyptic world, we were threatened by three meter tall intelligent carnivorous rabbits, we certainly might bear arms against them. A person who hunts rabbits as they are today cannot be said to bear arms against rabbits, but he or she may indeed be said to bear arms during the hunt.
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that
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