I would like to thank you all for your comments and replies. I am sorry if, and had no intention of, stirring the pot here. On the other hand, I am glad that I had this opportunity to discuss this subject with you. You have all been more than gracious.
I would like to "thank" Robert (Tickling) for pointing out:
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is the fact that in the past he was a major player in a U.N. program that disarmed various insurgent or paramilitary groups in Africa.
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I can answer questions on this program if people would like, but I do not believe it is necessarily relevant to the discussion at hand. I in no way, shape or form consider the problems over there to be comparable to our situation here.
Replying to all your posts would be impossible. And trying to do so, I'm afraid, made it look like I was ignoring new arguments. So I'll try to sum up the main ideas I gathered from all your comments and discuss them in a single posting sometime tomorrow. If I miss any arguments that I should have addressed, it was unintentional,
so please bring them to my attention.