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Originally Posted by GrantMercury
Do people really believe the US government is a malevolent force that threatens them...and guns will keep them safe from it? WTF?
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And do you really believe that government is a wise and benevolent organization made up of caring and altruistic men and women who truly only have the best interest of the citizens at heart?
puff-puff-pass...
Although I disagree with a lot that Rochard has to say he seems to be the only one who got it right:
https://gfy.com/showpost.php?p=19437846&postcount=12
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Ironically, I believe this was their intention. They wanted it's citizens armed for a number of reasons. I doubt they honestly wanted the population to over throw it's government but instead wanted to concept of open rebellion and revolt to be in the back of everyone's mind to ensure to ensure the government didn't get too far out of control.
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Remember that the men who wrote the Constitution and The Bill of Rights had just overthrown a repressive and tyrannical government and beaten the best trained and equipped military in the world using an armed citizenry, and were maybe just a little bit paranoid on the subject of Government Power.
But then, they had good reason to be.
Another thing, I keep seeing the argument that "an AR15 would be useless against missiles and tanks" and I agree with that statement, as far as it goes.
But keep in mind the fact that
any government that uses missiles and tanks against it's own citizens has already lost it's legitimacy and will inevitably fall, just look at Syria, it's been over for Assad for a long time now he just refuses to accept the inevitable and is going to continue the bloodbath until he is dead.
Sad
The American System was crafted to be an endless series of checks and balances, the Second Amendment included, I feel the Founders got it mostly right with the exceptions of term-limits and not banning political parties right off the bat, but hey overall they did a pretty good job.
Remove any one of those checks and balances at the peril of us all.
Now I managed to say my piece without once calling somebody a "sicko gun nut" or an "anti gun pussy" until the very end.
What's everyone else's excuse?
