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To: circlecity

Why are we continuing to debate these people about a type of firearm? The federal government does not have the right to regulate firearms at all. The police and federal agents have machine guns. Why dont the people have machine guns? The purpose of the second amendment is to protect the people from the tyranny of government. How are the people protected when government agents have weopons that are banned from the people?


13 posted on 11/19/2018 6:22:44 AM PST by precisionshootist
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To: precisionshootist

“Why are we continuing to debate these people about a type of firearm? The federal government does not have the right to regulate firearms at all. The police and federal agents have machine guns. Why dont the people have machine guns? The purpose of the second amendment is to protect the people from the tyranny of government. How are the people protected when government agents have weopons that are banned from the people?”


More to the point, if one takes a couple of steps back and looks at what the Constitution IS, it is obviously the document creating the present form of government. It is “We the People...” giving up some of our right to rule ourselves to this then-new government, for the purpose of ensuring various common interests.

OK, so the point is: How can the government possess powers that We the People did not first possess ourselves? How is it that a SPECIFIC prohibition against infringing upon certain rights can be read as anything BUT a prohibition on a whole class of laws, even if passed unanimously?


42 posted on 11/19/2018 9:31:15 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: precisionshootist

“Why are we continuing to debate these people about a type of firearm? The federal government does not have the right to regulate firearms at all. The police and federal agents have machine guns. Why dont the people have machine guns? The purpose of the second amendment is to protect the people from the tyranny of government. How are the people protected when government agents have weopons that are banned from the people?”

Game, set, match. No one has a moral right to interfere with our right not to be killed. Period.


47 posted on 11/19/2018 11:18:27 AM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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