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Old 01-02-2013, 06:17 PM
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Actually, I absolutely do. An equal amount of arbitrary decision-making power as every other idiot within these borders. That's the problem with democracy - idiots get to decide literally EVERYTHING.
I'm glad I have never been a citizen in a democracy. If you happen to be a citizen of the USA then apparently, you don't even know what kind of government you have.

In the Constitutional Republic, the individual is protected. It is designed so that the majority cannot take away the rights set forth in the Constitution.

The Second Amendment isn't even about shooting sports, hunting, or self defense. Those are all respectable uses of firearms, but its not what the Second Amendment is for.

The Second Amendment is primarily about the citizens being able to protect themselves from the government.

Our Republic adopted an elaborate system of Checks and Balances to keep the kind of power that would require altering the Constitution from aggregating.

The citizens inalienable right to bear arms is the FINAL - LAST check and balance. The one that any sane man can only hope and pray never need use.


Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. – Mahatma Gandhi, in Gandhi, An Autobiography, p. 446

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. – Alexander Hamilton

The Constitution shall never be construed … to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. – Samuel Adams

The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun owners than in one of disarmed citizens – even if you don't own a gun yourself. – Harry Browne

Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun. –Tom Clancy

Those who beat their swords into plough shares shall plough for those who don't. – Anonymous

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. - Thomas Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764

Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. – John F. Kennedy

When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent.
When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun.
Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet.
Lyle Myhr
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