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Originally posted by sixate
Thanks for clarifying, but I disagree. Has the Patriot Act been abused? Have you been violated? Has anyone you know been violated?
The right to own weapons is restricted. Not everyone can get a gun legally, but of course that won't stop anyone from being able to get them now will it?
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I live in Norway, so I can't really claim to be to harassed by the "Patriot" act or any other scary neocon laws. Wether or not the laws have been misused is not the point, the point is that they can be misused. The fight for personal freedom is preventive, it is better to secure it while it is there, than to fight for it as it is taken away. The humorous part of this is that you support gun ownership, based on a law designed to make citizens able to fight oppressors, but you don't fight the oppressors currently in administration, and their restrictions of your rights. The very essence of the constitutional right to bear arms is to make people able to protect their rights, why not try to protect your rights all the way, before you need to resort to armed struggle? Better safe than sorry.