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This thread is interestingly tautological. We're dealing with a MAN-given right, given by the MAN-written 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution. We're talking about rewriting it completely, and yet there's this concern here for preserving some big fancy Right? That makes no sense, if we're chucking it and rewriting it from scratch.
God didn't give anybody the right to have guns. Thomas Jefferson and his buddies made sure Americans could keep and bear arms, given the necessity to a newly-formed and fragile nation of a well-armed military.
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Alas no, but God did give us the right to defend ourselves at all cost against those would harm us or Him. In Jesus' day, that meant sabers. Nowadays? Colt 45.
"If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him", Exodus 22:2
Judges 5:8 reminds us of what happens to a foolish nation that chooses to disarm: "They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?"
Luke 22:36: "Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."