JohnOfSheffield
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- Jun 26, 2007
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Originally posted by: bignateyk
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
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People like Hillary wants to take away womens rights of their own bodies?
To believe the government couldn't take away your rights by using armed forces because you have handguns is ridiculous, get back to me when you have missiles, attack helicopters, tanks, land mines and bombers, then you'd have an argument about that it's for protection against the government, until then the idiocy about how handguns prevents the government from terrorizing the population is just a load of bollocks. When the second amendment was written those handguns were effective weapons, today they are not.
You can use other arguments and not be as daft as Ted and throw in the second amendment as justification for personal defense (which makes absolutely no sense at all) and i might even agree with it.
So what you are saying is that the government needs to allow commercial sales of tanks, land mines, and railguns. I like where your head's at :thumbsup:
If the second amendment is going to be worth the paper it was originally written on and carry on it's meaning then yes, that would be required.
The original intention was to preserve the peoples ability to beat down an oppressive government and the forces it commandeered, at the time, enough people with handguns would easily do that, today a civilian militia against US armed forces would mean a lot of dead civilians and all it would take would be bombing the crap out of the camp these civilians resided in.
I'm British though, so maybe it's because i'm an outsider i can see how ridiculous the notion of untrained people with handguns could stand up to a well trained military force (Air Force, Navy, Army).