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To: Tokra
Whether or not you own a gun is moot, if you accept that the Second Amendment of the Constitution guarantees the individual citizen the right to keep and bear arms, free of limitation.

Keep in mind that that right was written down there by folks who had just overthrown the British tyrany, and the security of a free state was to be guaranteed by the citizens being armed in sufficient numbers to resist tyranny from any source, including their own government.

I have a hard time considering those who would toss out parts of the Constitution 'conservative', whether or not they wish to exercise the rights enumerated therein.

79 posted on 02/26/2007 11:26:47 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
I have a hard time considering those who would toss out parts of the Constitution 'conservative', whether or not they wish to exercise the rights enumerated therein.

I have never advocated tossing out ANY part of the Constitution.

I just don't base ALL my value judgments on gun ownership. The second amendment is not the ONLY amendment - nor is it the most important amendment.

I don't know where you live - but I bet you don't live in Detroit, where I do and where the guns outnumber the population by a ratio of 3 to 1.

When you live surrounded by criminal thugs who all carry weapons - you are not always wild about the idea of them having even MORE guns.

I suppose if I was living in Lily-whitehood or a rural area, I might look at it differently.

85 posted on 02/26/2007 11:56:48 AM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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