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Why the 2nd Amendment

downtherabbithole Wrote: Jan 02, 2013 12:34 AM
If one thinks about it the genie is already out of the bottle as far as confiscating all guns. The gun control issue isn't about protecting people it's about disarming the public rendering them impotent to resist an overreaching government. We live in dangerous times and not from deranged gunmen.
bobm001 Wrote: Jan 02, 2013 7:03 AM
The 2nd Amendment just reaffirms the GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO DEFEND ONESELF!
Charles SWVA Wrote: Jan 02, 2013 9:14 AM
goldilocks Wrote: Jan 02, 2013 10:03 AM
mistermilo Wrote: Jan 02, 2013 10:38 AM
Did they have a second amendment??
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings, said: "The British are not coming. ... We don't need all these guns to kill people." Lewis' vision, shared by many, represents a gross ignorance of why the framers of the Constitution gave us the Second Amendment. How about a few quotes from the period and you decide whether our Founding Fathers harbored a fear of foreign tyrants.

Alexander Hamilton: "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed," adding later, "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is...

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