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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once." -- Alex Kozinski

I'd love to think it would never be necessary to shed blood to preserve our liberty; but doing that denies how that liberty was established in the first place.

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JDJAWS's avatar

Second amendment also codifies the most important natural right--the right to life thru self-defense.

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Mike R.'s avatar

We often overlook how bloody nose human the Constitution is. Core protection of the individual from the machination's of organized thugdom (usually criminal finance). The first tell in the game is wrapped in the flag mouth pieces selling less is more human rights.

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