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To: Redcloak
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed—where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."

What a good phrase, "The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision"
3 posted on 05/06/2003 1:17:40 PM PDT by TheDon ( It is as difficult to provoke the United States as it is to survive its eventual and tardy response)
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To: TheDon
What a good phrase, "The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision"

Seconded!

6 posted on 05/06/2003 1:36:17 PM PDT by coloradan
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To: TheDon
What a good phrase, "The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision"

A more up to date analogy might be "The Reset Button of the Constitution".

55 posted on 05/06/2003 4:20:40 PM PDT by El Gato
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