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Originally posted by Kadath
Your argument about my saying what people need is foolish. I was referring, obviously enough, to the second amendment, which made provisions for citizens to own guns based on certain needs at the time, needs which no longer exist.
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To suggest that the need no longer exists, is nothing but an unsupported assumption on your part. You can claim that the second amendment was only to protect "militia-men" but that would only be an interpretation on your part, one which has been argued for much longer than this board has been around. I'd be interested in hearing any sort of logic that supports your claim that the right to bear arms is no longer necessary. Crime and corruption certainly haven't been stamped out.
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Originally posted by Kadath
Thank you for citing one state to prove I am in the minority. (Oh, and what does "see what is going on around them" mean? Sounds a little ominous to me.) However, I freely and proudly admit to being in the minority. The masses are quite often wrong.
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Thank you for providing absolutely no evidence or logic to back up your ridiculous claims other than "the masses are quite often wrong" which in itself is flawed but quite telling. If you were serious about discussing this, there is plenty of evidence that I could reference, but it appears that you are just trolling again.
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Originally posted by Kadath
As for my sig. I do distrust my government, because they do as they will and don't explain why. I'm not so paranoid, however, to think that if the right to bear arms were revoked, the government would suddenly oppress the nation. Further, I'm not so delusional as to think that the only thing stopping the government from doing such a thing is the presence of a few guns.
More as events allow.
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It's not paranoia, it's called learning from history. Revoking the right for law-abiding citizens to bear arms is a stepping stone to oppressing a nation and a very important one. To think otherwise suggests that you are living in a different world than the rest of us are.
"A few guns" are not stopping the government from revoking our second amendment rights, logic and common sense are. If a selective ban of so-called "assault rifles" was reacted to in such a way as to give Republicans control of Congress, imagine the reaction to an all-out ban of the posession of firearms by law-abiding citizens would be.