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The origins of the Second Amendment
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Mark A. Taff
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The idea that people can overthrow a tyrannical government may be admirable in theory, perhaps, but the US does not have a good record of accepting the theory when applied against Washington. The US was not happy when the Confederate States tried to put this idea into practice in 1861; nor when the Black Panthers advocated it in the 1960s; nor even when angry farmers in Pennsylvania tried it in the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1790s.
The core problem, in practice, is who speaks for the people?
Besides the collective right to keep and bear arms, the Second Amendment was probably also designed to defend the individual’s right to bear arms. |
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MarkHamTownsend
(11/18/2017)
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The right ISN'T COLLECTIVE, it is an unalienable INDIVIDUAL right.
Revolution does not come with a built in gaurantee of success. Our Revolutionary War could have been lost, with Washington, Franklin, Revere, et al, either dead or POWs. There were several points during the war the matter could have gone to the Brits.
Wanna gauran-damn- tee? Buy a toaster oven.
But the right remains.
YOU HAVE TO WIN THE WAR!!! |
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| [The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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