[College Repub]

You can believe what you wish, but your rights ultimately dependent on the whims of the majority.

[El Gato]

You can believe what you wish, but your rights ultimately dependent on the whims of the majority.

And there you have one of the prime reasons for the second amendment. If "the majority", menaing 50% +1, want to take away the rights of the minority, it will cost them. Might make them less likely to get such whims, might it not?

[Mulder]

You can believe what you wish, but your rights ultimately dependent on the whims of the majority.

Hogwash

[ApesForEvolution]

Ah, the 'pure democracy' insert.

A pure democracy is 3 wolves and 1 sheep setting down to vote what's for dinner.

We, (thank God) live in (used to?) a Constitutional Republic. Subtle difference? Not to the sheep...

[Abogado]

College Repub stated"
"You can believe what you wish, but your rights ultimately dependent on the whims of the majority."

For that you get an F.
First, we are not, nor have we ever been a democracy. America is a Constitutional Republic with several checks and balances against the tyranny by the majority.
1. Free press (sorta)
2. Seperation of powers. (sorta)
3. Armed population
4. Juries (and jury nullification)
5. (getting tired, there is at least one more)

[Crusader21stCentury]

Tyranny of the majority is precisely why we live in a Republic. Apparently our centers of higher learning are just as lacking as the public schools.