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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
This is a somewhat poor example. we're talking about a group of people that did not WANT a fight. They repelled the first assault, effectively I might add, but then made many attempts to avoid violence.
On top of all of that, you had the DoJ in a rush to conclude the siege in any manner possible because of the mounting anger and possible backlash of hundreds of Texans who were outraged at what the feds were doing. If the feds had let that siege go on another couple of weeks, they would have been facing a much larger armed force NOT sitting inside that compound.
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Quite frankly, it's a horrible example. When you parallel it over to the other freedoms in the bill of rights, by his argument if my petitioning of the government to end the wars in Iraq fails, no one else should be allowed to petition for anything (human rights, gay marriage, green intiatives, or whatever).
Sorry Will, your argument against gun rights is one of the worst I've heard in awhile.