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Originally Posted by DWB
Lets think a few generations down the road. History has show us time and time again that governments can and do turn against their people in a tyrannical manner. It may never happen in the USA or it may happen to your children, or your grandchildren, there is no way to tell. Wouldn't you want to keep the 2nd Amendment in place for those who may actually need it someday? You and I will probably be long gone, but what if it is needed 100 years from now and we let it just slip away because we didn't think it was no longer relevant? I hope that day never comes, but it may, and if it does I hope every American can defend themselves properly, and if that means with assault weapons so be it.
I believe the founding fathers knew exactly what was at stake, even if it sounds outdated now.
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And... What? The people will rise up and defeat the strongest military power in the world with their little assault rifles?
This is comical - Was the 2nd Amendment created to protect the people from the government, or the government from the people? Was it "deterring a tyrannical government" or "suppressing insurrection". If we decided we had tyrannical government and decided to over throw them, wouldn't "we" become the very insurrection the 2nd Amendment was meant to prevent? There are people out there like Alex Jones that believe we have tyrannical government, and that our government lies to us, and tries to take away our rights - Shouldn't they over throw the government by this point? Isn't Alex Jones and his followers leading the "insurrection" and shouldn't use our firearms to "suppress" him?
I believe our founding fathers had the best of intentions when they wrote the 2nd Amendment. With that said, we didn't have semi automatic weapons then. They had no idea that we would have millions of people armed with semi automatic weapons pointing them each other - and slaughtering innocent school children in bulk.