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Originally Posted by Tchocky
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
No.
If the government has all the guns, then the people exist by the whim of the government.
If the people have all the guns, the the government exists by the whim of the people.
The Second Amendment indeed guarantees us the ability to overthrow the government by force, if necessary.
But only as a last resort.
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I can't convince myself that in my country, where indeed the government have all the guns, we exist by the leniency of government power. |
As soon as any one person, or group, decides otherwise, what are you going to do about it? Write a new law?
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You're placing government and people alongside each other, as if one could exist without the other.
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No, I believe that the people who created my government did so for the specific purpose of securing their rights. After all, they had just fought a war against a government who tried to use force of arms to "make them behave".
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12,221! Palindromic postcount, congrats Steve 
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Cool! I didn't even notice!
