Re: The 2ed Amendment as a Gun Nuts Wet Dream

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:49:23 GMT, David Lentz <dlentz10@/*NOSPAM*/rochester.rr.com> 
wrote:

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>Speedbyrd wrote:
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>> >> And that can be changed and that is what I'm doing my part to help to happen.
>> >> You anti-government radicals make me tired.  You wouldn't be such a bigmouth 
>> >> without the firearm.  It's go to
>> >> go.
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>> >I find it amusing that my simple assertion of a fundamental right
>> >to keep and bear arms is labeled as as anti government tirade.  I
>> >also note that the same hoplophobe finds the Constitution be to
>> >an impediment, much like B.J. Clinton did and the United Nations
>> >does.
>> >
>> >David
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>> I'm thrilled that you're amused.
>> Bearing arms is NOT a right, whether you like it or not.
>> 
>>     The Speedbyrd :>
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>It seems almost unfair to pick on the historically challenged. 
>Such is life:
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>       When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
>people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
>with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
>separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
>Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
>mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
>them to the separation.
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>       We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
>created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
>certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty
>and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights,
>Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers
>from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of
>Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of
>the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
>Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
>organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
>likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed,
>will dictate that Governments long established should not be
>changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all
>experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer,
>while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
>abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a
>long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
>same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute
>Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
>Government, and to provide new Guards for their future
>security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these
>Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to
>alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the
>present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries
>and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of
>an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts
>be submitted to a candid world.
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>A citizen of the United States is assumed to have the God given
>right to dissolve his political bonds.  So said Thomas
>Jefferson.  So we did absolve are bonds to King George.  For a
>free citizenry to retain her inherent power to absolve her
>government,  she must remain armed.  The militia was armed on
>April 19, 1775 and free citizens must retains that same right
>today.
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>David


I said that it needs an overhaul.  I still say the same.  We cannot behave ourselves 
with guns.  Therefore,
other alternatives need to be found.
  
    The Speedbyrd :>