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Revisiting the Second Amendment
Submitted by:
Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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It was not conceived as a right for individuals to bear arms. (Please keep in mind that we’re also talking about muskets in 1787, not god damn AR-15’s.) It was not to protect citizens from international threats. The Second Amendment was created to protect Americans from their own government in the form of “well-regulated militias” or an organized military force formed from “the civil population.” |
Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(7/30/2016)
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"It was not conceived as a right for individuals to bear arms."
Yes it was. "THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE..." There it is, THAT'S who owns the right. WE THE PEOPLE. I don't get this....the 2A WAS designed so we could protect ourselves from a tyrannical govt. I think the author is schizophrenic. |
Comment by:
PHORTO
(7/30/2016)
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Revisiting the Second Amendment?
Why?
It still says what it has always said. |
Comment by:
Sosalty
(7/30/2016)
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An armed population is a civil population. |
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After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. — Alexis de Tocqueville |
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