SouthernBoy
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this is /are such good explanations of the importance of the 2nd amendment to OUR country!
thank you both for writing this down so eloquently! bravo!
I also applaud these gentlemen members. Well done.
For the "honorable" former justice, he should do some homework to discover what the spark was that ignited the American Revolution. So just in case he has forgotten his elementary history, that event was not started over taxes or the occupying of the homes of colonists or the carting off to England for trial of individuals deemed dangerous to the crown. All of those things were party to what led up to the revolution, but the actual spark which set it off that April morning in 1775 was gun control. The British were on the move and under orders to disband the militias, take their arms, and gain control of their powder magazines.
Knowing this and the fact that it had happened just a few short years before, the Founders were VERY leery of government in general and strong central ones in particular... at least a good many of them.
Without the Bill of Rights, this land would no longer be America. The Bill of Rights is an absolute necessity to guard against an over-extending government and the Second Amendment is the teeth of that document.
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