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What most Americans want is irrelevant. The Constitution guarantees a right to bear arms, and Obama has posted his intention to severely curtail that right on the whitehous.gov website.
The Bill of Rights was put in place, in part, to prevent the "will of the majority" from denying rights to the minority. The preamble to the bill of rights states that the bill of rights simply enumerates rights which are inalienable and no government has the right to take away (nor does a majority of the population). An opinion poll has no impact on that whatsoever.
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"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence
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