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    | This Republican Senator Calls Three Black Men Peacefully Carrying Long Guns 'Mob Rule' Submitted by: 
			
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    | Carrying long guns in public is legal in Georgia, by the way (with exceptions for a few places like courts and schools). Fox does not actually accuse any of these men of breaking any laws. But they clearly intend viewers to see these men as a threat—and not just because they have put up barricades and hope to shut out the police, but because they're bearing arms. By contrast, when a predominantly white group of protesters showed up at Michigan's capitol in April to protest the state's COVID-19 rules, Fox's coverage was reasonably neutral and factual, giving voice to critics but pointing out that guns were legally allowed in the state Capitol building.
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     PHORTO
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    | Two things: 
 1) Seizing public property is a lawless act, and bearing arms in concert thereof is presumptively unlawful.
 
 2) Dangling federal funds to defeat 10th Amendment assignment of authority is now and has been the rule for a long, long time. It is, at bottom, bribery. States willingly give up power to get the money. Don't want the feds calling the tune? Then pay the piper YOURSELF.
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                      | By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our Founding Fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy.  Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny, which gave rise to the second amendment, will ever be a major danger to our Nation, the amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic military-civilian relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of the country.  For that reason I believe the second amendment will always be important. --JOHN F. KENNEDY |  |  |