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To: Vanders9

Ok, first a correction, we are a Republic not a democracy.

Do we need to protect ourselves against our elected government? I don’t see that, they are paderers and cowards. They will do what they can to stay in power (ie. be re-elected). It is the un-elected federal government that we have to worry about. We can always recall or elect someone else when it comes to the elected government. When it comes to the BATFE (more accurately the BFE, as I have not heard them doing anything in recent years with Alcohol or Tobacco), etc. in which unelected people work. They abuse and grow their power both with and without the help or consent of elected officials.

The 2nd was not just about our government but all enemies. The threat against the 2nd is the most important, because even if society were to crash and all your firearms have been taken from you, how will you defend yourself or survive.

That is why I say that repeal of RoeV.Wade and a marriage amendment to the Constitution (both of which I think are important) can wait until after eliminating gun control laws/executive orders and securing our borders.


173 posted on 06/19/2007 12:20:17 PM PDT by looscnnn ("Those 1s and 0s you stepped in is a memory dump. Please clean your shoes." PC Confusious)
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To: looscnnn

Ok, consider the quote suitably modified. It seems an odd thing, in a republic, for you to want to protect yourself against your own elected government.

As for your comments re the “unelected federal government”, well, I think we are on the same page. The rising tide of bureaucracy, (fuelled, alas, by technology) is a really serious threat to individual liberty. I personally believe it to be THE threat. I’m sick and tired of not being allowed to do this, and having to fill in this form and that form and obey this obscure regulation or that safety rule.

The thing that always gets me is that the purveyors of all this really honestly believe they are doing good. Often of course they are - you can individually justify every new law and regulation that is issued - but the net overall effect is that we are all getting slowly strangled in red tape.


174 posted on 06/20/2007 1:03:46 AM PDT by Vanders9
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