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The need for self defense
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Mark A. Taff
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With the continuing debate over the 2nd Amendment, I feel it is necessary to look to the past for a lesson on what happens when people have no means of self defense. In the latter part of the Roman Empire, the people had been disarmed by law as the emperors sought to control every aspect of life.
In 455 A.D. the Vandals, a Germanic tribe, from where we get our term for wanton destruction, invaded Italy and sacked the city of Rome. There were not enough soldiers to protect the people from the depredations of the Vandals ,and having no means of defending themselves, they were brutalized and plundered without mercy. |
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MarkHamTownsend
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| Today we have them coming in through the southern border. |
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| As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms. — Tench Coxe in `Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution' under the Pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789 at 2 col. 1. |
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