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Originally Posted by raymond6751
Calm everyone!
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Most of us are being calm, and rational. Your diatribes so far have been reasonably calm, but nothing like rational.
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The civil war was the first implementation of citizens taking up arms against the government. A lot of people died. The amendment was not changed.
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Actually that would be the Revolution itself, and the reason the Second Amendment is there. And you haven't heard of Shay's Rebellion? The Whiskey Rebellion? You need to study your history a little.
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Now we have people taking up arms against each other. That was not envisioned in the amendment. That is insanity.
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Except maybe the time when the Vice President shot and killed the former Secretary of the Treasury with a handgun. Both were armed, and it was by mutual consent. That was way back in 1804. Again you need to look before you leap.
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An argument ensues on a shopping center parking lot. A gun is pulled and shots fired by person A. Person B draws a gun and fires back. Both men are fine but each one has shot someone else. Further guns are drawn and a wild west gunfight ensues. Everyone exercising their rights.
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When was the last time that happened in your neighborhood? Making up a hypothetical for emotive reasons is hardly calm, or rational. I've heard of bar fights leading to gunplay, but I've never seen it. And it's been happening since the beginning of the Republic.
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When the cops do show up, they get into it too. Later on, when the ambulances have left the scene, both person A and B are dead but shot by someone else. Nobody knows who is right or wrong.
Everyone was protecting themselves. Cool
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OK Corral?
Why don't you try actually arguing your point rather than just talk down to people?