re: Gun rights don't come from the second amendment

When the shite goes down, I bet my rifle and that of the SC Guardsman and the US Soldier are going to be pointed in the same direction.

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Happyness


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Another ignorant comment from someone who thinks they're smart.

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Know how I know you've never read the Constitution or Declaration of Independence?

There is a rule about holes you probably should familiarize yourself with.

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Except the government could still step on your throat without batting an eye if it really wanted to. Your AR ain't gonna stop tanks or missiles.

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You think they are going to steam roll their population with tanks and missiles?

An armed population prevents them from enacting extremly unpopular legislation against the will of the people..

Say for instance they were tired of conservative generations and decided children were to be taken by the state at 7, educated, then released back to the parents [full time] at 13.
Good fricking luck pulling that off with an armed population. If only the police or the feds had firearms it would probably come to pass.

Anything extreme they want to enact better be pretty important to them, because it will be exponentially more difficult to enforce on an armed population. If tanks and missiles are the only way to pull it off they are far less likely to try

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An armed population prevents them from enacting extremly unpopular legislation against the will of the people..

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No it doesn’t. They already do (CAF) and no one is doing shite about it. The powers that Be want you to have your guns so that you still keep thinking that your in control somehow which only serves to tighten their grip.

What is CAF?

And obviously people aren’t willing to kill and risk their lives for everything they don’t agree with, but government would absolutely have to be more cautious in regards to enacting extreme change (against the people’s will) when their population is armed.

Civil asset forfeiture

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Civil asset forfeiture

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Gotcha

I see your point here, but the fact that it relates to criminal activity makes the population as a whole feel unaffected imo.

I think a widespread attempt to seize personal property from citizens as a whole is far less likely in a country with 300+ million guns floating around. At least by force, it could be done over time politically which still somewhat limits the governments power

I’m not arguing for it, saying it can make the population as a whole feel unaffected. Of course it can be abused

They have to tread lightly. More so than if governing a disarmed population

It would be roughly 50/50 upvotes and downvotes (maybe a bit more downvotes) split along the lines of those who believe in a dirty and those who don’t.

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Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happyness. The right to keep and bear arms involves all three. So, the answer to your question is no, gun ownership isn't ordained by God, but the right to own guns certainly is.

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According to this line of thinking, just about everything is a natural right.