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Gun Control Reform Activism

billh58

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5. Since we do have

Reply to lastlib (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 04:58 PM

Feb 2014

a standing Army, a Navy, an Air Force, a Marine Corps, the National Guard in every state, and many thousands of municipal police officers, I would say that yes, the Second Amendment has been obsolete for a while now.

But the Second Amendment absolutists will say that the reason for keeping the Second Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with "the security of a free state," and everything to do with self-defense against unnamed scary looking unarmed people.

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No. elleng Feb 2014 #1

I hope someday soon the 4 dissenting Justices in Heller will become 5. Hoyt Feb 2014 #2

It's also more than a little billh58 Feb 2014 #3

For a second, I thought the question was... lastlib Feb 2014 #4

Since we do have billh58 Feb 2014 #5