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To: Just another Joe
You're absolutely right. The Second Amendment is the emergency reset button to be pressed when all other attempts to prevent despotism and tyranny have failed.

The Declaration of Independence in instructive on this point:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

The last bolded clause is especially instructive: it is not merely our right but our DUTY to throw off such government.

The challenge lies in knowing WHEN the tipping point has been reached.

565 posted on 03/28/2010 11:40:06 AM PDT by behzinlea
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To: behzinlea
The challenge lies in knowing WHEN the tipping point has been reached.

I don't believe the tipping point has been reached yet, but we are heading in that direction, and probably over a third of the way there.

571 posted on 03/28/2010 12:24:14 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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