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Not because our government could never become tyrannical, but because if it did, in the end the 2nd Amendment wouldn't make any difference."

Tell that to the Jews of Europe, circa 1942. Tell it to the Warsaw Jews. Tell it to the well-armed and never-invaded Swiss.

I guess the difference between us is that some folks are naturally cowards, who project that flaw on everyone else.

Oh, so you actually read what I said the second time around. Good for you. We'll say no more of your embarrassing earlier mistake.

"Tell that to the Jews of Europe, circa 1942."

I can't, they're dead. Because they didn't have guns, I suppose?

"Tell it to the Warsaw Jews."

Oh wait, they did have guns, and yet they're dead too, and the gap between the firepower a private citizen can muster and the firepower a military can muster is even bigger today than it was then.

They were courageous people, and they did the best thing they could given the limited options available to them, but they never had a chance.

I, for one, do not intend to follow in their footsteps. I intend to stop things well before they reach that point by, among other things, winning some elections, something a lot of FReepers these days apparently couldn't care less about because they would cut off not just their nose but their entire head to spite their face.

"Tell it to the well-armed and never-invaded Swiss."

This is the part where I call you on trying to change the subject from an uprising-against-a-tyrannical-domestic-government scenario to an invasion-by-a-foreign-power scenario. Nice try.

"I guess the difference between us is that some folks are naturally cowards, who project that flaw on everyone else."

And now we bottom out with insults and name-calling. Ho-hum.

Now, to be sure that we’re communicating here, I’m going to re-post my thoughts on the Warsaw Jews, since we know you have a little problem reading things sometimes. Oops, we said we weren’t going to bring that up again, didn’t we? Oh well. Just in case.

“Oh wait, they did have guns, and yet they’re dead too, and the gap between the firepower a private citizen can muster and the firepower a military can muster is even bigger today than it was then.

They were courageous people, and they did the best thing they could given the limited options available to them, but they never had a chance.

I, for one, do not intend to follow in their footsteps. I intend to stop things well before they reach that point by, among other things, winning some elections, something a lot of FReepers these days apparently couldn’t care less about because they would cut off not just their nose but their entire head to spite their face.”