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EX500rider

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9. Not quite the same league though is it?

Reply to Bayard (Reply #7)

Mon Jan 26, 2026, 06:21 PM

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The US has almost 4 times the pop. of Iran & Iran has gunned down somewhere between 10,000 & 30,000 unarmed protestors in the street in a week or two. I don't think 2 dead in the US is quite the same thing, YMMV

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