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Originally posted by Kadath
So, if the courts were to decide that "arms" consisted only of single shot rifles, would you be okay with that? And do you really think that, were the entire armed forces, including the national guard to join the government in trampling your rights, citizens with guns could liberate weapons from them? They would be cut down like wheat before a thresher.
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Nope, no more than if the courts decided "freedom of speech" didn't apply to computers because the founders never heard of them.
And Seretogis hit the nail on the head. A real revolution requires the majority of the people to support it, otherwise, it is just a coup d'etat.
If there was a true wholesale trampling of the constitution, many of those guard units would join the revolution themselves.
I pray we never see such civil unrest or the need for another revolution in this country, but I am not blind to the fact that it is a possiblity, albiet a remote one.