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 "Ladies Choice"  wrote in message 
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 > In article , someone@ms.com says... 
 >> 
 >> 
 >>"Ladies Choice"  wrote in message 
 >>news:LVVwf.52217$km.34878@edtnps89... 
 >>> In article , tommorrison@ByteMe.com 
 >>> says... 
 >>>> 
 >>>> 
 >>>>"Free Man"  wrote in message 
 >>>>news:MPG.1e2d7b8ccde38f4989840@news.individual.net... 
 >>>>> Tom's afraid that his American buddies will laugh at him if he can't 
 >>>>> have 
 >>>>> an arsenal.  That's all he cares about. 
 >>>> 
 >>>>Ya know, 'Free Man', opinions are like assholes. Everyone and thier 
 >>>>dog's 
 >>>>got one, the majority of which should not be on public display. 
 >>>> 
 >>>> 
 >>> 
 >>> such as ones based on nothing but pitiful wishful thinking, like "As 
 >>> stated 
 >>> earlier, I don't believe the size of the market has anything to do with 
 >>> the 
 >>> effectiveness of any prohibition." 
 >> 
 >>Market size is not always a factor in the effectiveness of prohibition 
 >>efforts. Take bear gall bladders. The market for this so-called delicacy 
 >>is 
 >>quite small (a lot smaller than that for black-market firearms) yet 
 >>prohbition and enforcement has failed to prevent poaching and smuggling. 
 >>Same with elehant ivory. You underestimate the sophistication of these 
 >>markets. This isn't Indians driving truckloads of cigarettes across the 
 >>Rez. 
 >> 
 > 
 > Wow I didn't know we had elephants in Canada, nor did I know that the 
 > 'bear 
 > gall bladder' market is bigger than the market for cigarettes, wow you 
 > learn 
 > something new every day.  Can I use bear gall bladders to quit smoking?? 
  
 Smoke em if you got em. 
  
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