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Why the 2nd Amendment

Original Saepe_Expertus Wrote: Jan 02, 2013 6:00 PM

LIB PAT...your fundamental skills in punctuation and grammar do not lend credence to your assertions. There is a difference between its and it's. Putting that aside, care to enumerate who "... those of your ilk have done to diminish freedom in this great country" actually ARE? Care to enumerate said freedoms? A simple verbal drive-by shooting is NOT a persuasive argument. Take the contrary; what have O'TRAUMA, Reid, Pelosi, Boxer, Clinton and Clinton done...to "INCREASE liberty? You have five minutes.

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Why the 2nd 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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