June 2011
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Henry Shallik: Excuse me, but this White House uses the First Amendment to protect flag burning. To protect pornography. To ban school prayer. Why, when the Second Amendment clearly says that the federal government will not infringe upon a citizen's right to keep...
Toby: Because it doesn't say that. In fact, it doesn't say that at all. The only way it says that is if you remove some words from it.
Shallik: Oh, look, when...
Toby: It says "A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, government shall not infringe." The words "regulated" and "militia" are in the first sentence. I don't think the framers were thinking of three guys in a Dodge Durango.
Shallik: You don't really know what the framers were thinking, do you?
Toby: No, but I do know that f you combine the populations of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Australia, you'll get a population roughly the size of the United States. We had 32,000 gun deaths last year, they had 112. Do you think it's because Americans are more homicidal by nature? Or do you think it's because those guys have gun control laws?
Sam: Where'd you get the bathrobe?
Carol: The gym.
Sam: There are bathrobes at the gym?
C.J.: In the women's locker room.
Sam : But not the men's.
C.J.: Yeah.
Sam: Now, that's outrageous. There's a thousand men working here and 50 women.
C.J.: Yeah, and it's the *bathrobes* that's outrageous.
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