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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Banning guns in one city is small potatoes.
I'm talking nation-wide. The only way it can work is if everyone does it. It would take a nation effort and desire to stop the violence and to change.
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So you would encourage the whole populace to chip in, hand over their guns?
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I don't see this happening, not just because of Big Business. In my opinion, if your founding fathers saw the trouble it would cause, they wouldn't have added the clause to the constitution, or they would have been more specific in their language. I don't they had the ability to concieve the world of today, as far as handguns are concerned.
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I disagree. The founding fathers had seen what a totalitarian government could do with a disarmed populace and thats why they wrote the second amendment. The founders own quotes in preparing the BoR show that they intended for every american to be able to own arms for their defense and defense of the state. One of Thomas Jeffersons quotes -
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I guess I need to add to my list:
You make your own hand guns, you do time.
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this sounds familiar, like - 'you make your own liquor, you do time.'
that worked out real well too.