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originally posted by: WAstateMosin
You cannot understand the right to defend oneself, one's family/loved ones, and one's home and property from harm by whatever means necessary? Whose kneeling slave/subject are you???!
originally posted by: Logarock
originally posted by: superman2012
This is one right that I will never understand. Congrats though?
Its our poor educational system. Its an easy to understand right when we understand the 2nd, in the context of historical justification as examined in the Federalist Papers and as a right then among the others for securing ourselves against the abuse of government, just to name one offender mentioned.
originally posted by: superman2012
originally posted by: Logarock
originally posted by: superman2012
This is one right that I will never understand. Congrats though?
Its our poor educational system. Its an easy to understand right when we understand the 2nd, in the context of historical justification as examined in the Federalist Papers and as a right then among the others for securing ourselves against the abuse of government, just to name one offender mentioned.
I understand the wording of it, not the use.
When are the populace going to "secure themselves against the abuse of government"? Think you'll win against the government?
originally posted by: WAstateMosin
If the 'Board/Bored' allowed members to remove their own posts, I could fix this accidental multipost myself! DAMNED INEFFICIENT!!!!
originally posted by: Logarock
originally posted by: superman2012
originally posted by: Logarock
originally posted by: superman2012
This is one right that I will never understand. Congrats though?
Its our poor educational system. Its an easy to understand right when we understand the 2nd, in the context of historical justification as examined in the Federalist Papers and as a right then among the others for securing ourselves against the abuse of government, just to name one offender mentioned.
I understand the wording of it, not the use.
When are the populace going to "secure themselves against the abuse of government"? Think you'll win against the government?
Government? You mean them, not we the people.
This is one right that I will never understand.
originally posted by: WAstateMosin
a reply to: superman2012
Do the words 'Live free or die' or the expression 'Give me liberty or give me death' also mean nothing to you? We need to rewrite the Constitution in plain English and CLEARLY spell out our rights with ZERO ambiguity!
originally posted by: WAstateMosin
a reply to: superman2012
Do the words 'Live free or die' or the expression 'Give me liberty or give me death' also mean nothing to you? We need to rewrite the Constitution in plain English and CLEARLY spell out our rights with ZERO ambiguity!
originally posted by: projectvxn
a reply to: superman2012
This is one right that I will never understand.
It's a right many people don't understand because Americans have been leading easy and heavily insulated lives from the kind of chaos that is seen around the world.
It's called normalcy bias. It's what causes people to walk around an injured person and not render assistance.
There are thousands of years of philosophical development and understanding that went into the rationale for the second amendment. The founders didn't simply say "we like guns, make it a right".
Further, you've asked if we think we can beat the government in a war. YES is the answer to that.
Take it from me. The government spent a lot of time and money to teach me counterinsurgency and combat tactics, and I'm not even a special troop. Just a Blackhawk crew chief and door gunner. Imagine what they teach EOD techs, SF soldiers, and others.
The military is a cross section of the population, albeit a small one, but many of the same sentiments you find here from people like me are mirrored in the military. At least half would not fight, or even defect to the side of revolutionaries and bring all their toys with them.
Besides, I spent the better part of a year watching the US get muddled down by illiterate savages with beat up AKs and home made explosives in Afghanistan.
An American insurgency would be the deadliest and most sophisticated insurgency ever seen anywhere, ever.