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To: rellimpank

Thanks for the ping!


10 posted on 07/19/2008 12:16:00 PM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: neverdem
The 1st Amendment is about freedom of speech. I.E. The Freedom to Shoot Your Mouth Off.

The 2d Amendment gives you the freedom to shoot your gun off at anyone who wants to shoot you for shooting your mouth off.

That is why they are Amendment 1 and Amendment 2. Without them, there is no incentive for the government to honor your other rights and leave you alone.

Free Speech and Guns are POLITICAL rights. They are not about Home Protection, or Shooting Ducks and Deer, although those are certainly OK things. If it's a government that is trying to shoot you for shooting your mouth off, you and your armed neighbors can form a militia of armed people to shoot the government.

Sorry if that's too harsh for many modern people. But that is what the constitution is trying to say, in a very nice way. And that is what our lawmakers and judges would rather undergo root canal than admit in public.

11 posted on 07/19/2008 2:30:58 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (GOP Plank: Pump MORE US Crude--2Xrefining capacity -- Coal /METHANOL fuel-- Build Nukes)
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