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Gun Rights Defenders Misread The Second Amendment
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Recent letters from Thomas Denton ( July 3: "Banning 'assault weapons' would only be first step") and Phil Gingerella (July 14: "Democrats want to disarm law-abiding citizens") claim that the Founding Fathers' primary purpose in establishing the Second Amendment was to provide the people with the means to protect themselves from a tyrannical government. This is far from accurate.
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MarkHamTownsend
(7/26/2016)
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Yes the purpose of the militia was to repel invasions and suppress insurrections .... it was intended as a "first responder," to be relieved by (or adjuncted to) the U.S. Army when it arrived.
But it was also intended to protect the rights of the people to remain armed with the "deadliest implements of the soldier" in case the government devolved into tyranny.
And.....240 years later .... we may indeed be watching THAT happen.
Keep your powder dry ...... |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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