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Why the 2nd Amendment

redneck8 Wrote: Jan 02, 2013 10:09 AM

Right....how many people have been murdered by private businesses and individuals with too much power? and how many have been killed by their own governments?....answer .....millions ............................................................................................................................................................ It's a split that has valid arguments on both sides, and anecdotal evidence to support both positions. Please give me an example of private business or individuals with too much power killing millions.

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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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