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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 998777, member: 112"]Your reasoning for this question is because there are limits placed on something that you own, limits that say you cannot do this or cannot do that. Well, by that reasoning you can ask the same question about many things that you own.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example - say buy a house and pay cash for it. You own that house, right ? Well, do you realize that in many places there are laws and regulations that go so far as to tell you what color you may or may not paint that house - even though you own it ? Laws that tell you whether you may remodel that house or not. The list is endless.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or say you live on an ordinary residential street, you own the property right ? But yet there are laws that tell you what you may or may not put on that property. Laws that tell you that you have to maintain the sidewalk in front of it and the grass strip between the walk and the street. And you don't even own those though most people think they do.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point I am trying to get across to you is that there are laws that dictate what we may or may not do with many things that we own - not just gold & silver coins. And just because you "own" something that does not mean that you can do anything you want with it. That right there is the mistake that people make. They think that if they own something that it is theirs to do with as they please. But the reality is - they can't.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why ? Because that's the law. And we are a nation of laws, and we all have to follow them whether we like it or not or whether we think the laws are wrong or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 998777, member: 112"]Your reasoning for this question is because there are limits placed on something that you own, limits that say you cannot do this or cannot do that. Well, by that reasoning you can ask the same question about many things that you own. For example - say buy a house and pay cash for it. You own that house, right ? Well, do you realize that in many places there are laws and regulations that go so far as to tell you what color you may or may not paint that house - even though you own it ? Laws that tell you whether you may remodel that house or not. The list is endless. Or say you live on an ordinary residential street, you own the property right ? But yet there are laws that tell you what you may or may not put on that property. Laws that tell you that you have to maintain the sidewalk in front of it and the grass strip between the walk and the street. And you don't even own those though most people think they do. The point I am trying to get across to you is that there are laws that dictate what we may or may not do with many things that we own - not just gold & silver coins. And just because you "own" something that does not mean that you can do anything you want with it. That right there is the mistake that people make. They think that if they own something that it is theirs to do with as they please. But the reality is - they can't. Why ? Because that's the law. And we are a nation of laws, and we all have to follow them whether we like it or not or whether we think the laws are wrong or not.[/QUOTE]
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