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Mass shootings have become institutionalized as an almost normal part of American life, as have the responses to such shootings. After each massacre, victims, their families and gun-control advocates bemoan the latest atrocity and call for background checks and a ban on assault weapons. Gun rights advocates oppose such reforms and stand behind the Second Amendment. |
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MarkHamTownsend
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Bullpuckey history.
Not that there wasn't a lot of atrocities in our history. ALL countries are - or were - born in sin.
America does not have the sin market cornered.
Slavery existed long before America.
All cultures that migrate clash, one wins, another dies. And the people in those cultures had their own weapons as well.
We know why the founders wrote the second amendment.
Read THE FEDERALIST PAPERS. There are other historical documents as well.
It is amazingly deceitful to attribute the second amendment or its authors' motives to wide spread human aggresion which every culture possesses.
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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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