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Originally Posted by samcol
It's interesting that most who support civil libertys and civil rights don't support the fundamental civil liberty that protects all the other ones.
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I don't view the right to bear arms as teh most fundamental civil liberty. Free speech is - and it protects all of the other liberties, by allowing us to shed light on the injustices/failures/inequities of the government without fear of reprise.
I support the right to bear arms & own guns. I don't own one myself, but that's my personal decision.
Without guns, we would have never gained our independence. Now-a-days, this argument is pretty moot: the government has MUCH better weapons than we as a citizenry will ever have.
I think the present situation is that the government should be afraid if ENOUGH of the citizenry rise up in revolt that the current Army is well out-numbered. I'm worried, however, that some crackjob in the upper eschelons of the gov't will not yield to the citizenry.
(Too "Tilted Paranoia"?)