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To: Trump20162020

It actually wouldn’t be a bad experiment if undertaken by serious people rather than these idiots.

I don’t think we should take it at all for granted that instituting full-time, armed, uniformed police forces is necessarily the best way to enforce the law and maintain public order and safety in a free society. The Founding Fathers would probably be aghast at modern police forces—they certainly look a lot like standing armies, which most early bills of rights described as “dangerous to liberty” and provided that they “ought not to be kept up,” particularly when they are used to enforce civil order during peacetime.


30 posted on 05/30/2018 7:36:18 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: The Pack Knight
I would be against "standing armies"...

but the statist can't have it both ways...

either we have cops to protect us or we are allowed to protect ourselves...

58 posted on 05/30/2018 11:48:47 AM PDT by cherry
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