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re: How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment
Posted on 5/20/14 at 9:39 am to DelU249
Posted on 5/20/14 at 9:39 am to DelU249
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They just fought a fricking war against a tyrannical government...they wanted an armed populace to keep the government they just created in check
That's a very strange, threatening way to put it.
I'm pretty sure the founding fathers instituted a representative democracy with checks and balances to keep the government in check, not the constant threat of violence towards the government.
The great thing about our government is that any grievances we have, we get to take out at the ballot box at least every two years.
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Posted on 5/20/14 at 9:42 am to Truckasaurus
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That's a very strange, threatening way to put it.
What? The founders wrote the very same thing many times after the war.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 9:45 am to Truckasaurus
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I'm pretty sure the founding fathers instituted a representative democracy with checks and balances to keep the government in check, not the constant threat of violence towards the government.
Again, how fricking dumb do you think the framers were? Do you believe they thought they had created an inpenetrable machine? FDRs court packing scheme could never be imagined by them.
Maybe you should stop reading politico and read something that actually puts the "debate" in context
They explicitly state that the threat of violence was meant to keep them in check. I guess Thomas Jefferson just needed more politico context though.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 9:51 am to Truckasaurus
The system of checks and balances doesn't work unless the people have the ability TK revolt in the case that a government decides to ignore or abuse it. Without an armed populace a government could simply rig elections and oppress it's people.
See Russia for an example
See Russia for an example
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