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To: onyx; RedMDer; TheOldLady; DJ MacWoW; Lady Jag; deoetdoctrinae; Alamo-Girl; STARWISE; bd476; ...
" There are those in America today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failure in the form of granting government more power. So, as government has failed to control crime and violence with the means given it by the Constitution, they seek to give it more power at the expense of the Constitution.

But in doing so, in their willingness to give up their arms in the name of safety, they are really giving up their protection from what has always been the chief source of despotism — government.

Lord Acton said power corrupts. Surely then, if this is true, the more power we give the government the more corrupt it will become. And if we give it the power to confiscate our arms we also give up the ultimate means to combat that corrupt power. In doing so we can only assure that we will eventually be totally subject to it. When dictators come to power, the first thing they do is take away the people's weapons. It makes it so much easier for the secret police to operate, it makes it so much easier to force the will of the ruler upon the ruled."

~Ronald Reagan




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2 posted on 08/11/2012 11:07:43 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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5 posted on 08/11/2012 11:09:05 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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43 posted on 08/11/2012 12:10:51 PM PDT by Lady Jag (If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat. - Reagan)
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Holiness (Paul Ryan)

70 posted on 08/11/2012 1:14:13 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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