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In reply to the discussion: "We stop being something to be proud of when we love our guns more than we love our children" [View all]thefool_wa
(1,867 posts)MILLIONS of people own guns, there are militias all over this country. Rag-tag is HARDLY what I would call it. Plus, in your example, it would require the military being willing to oppress the people it defends, and I honestly don't think that will ever be an issue.
However, I will say again, tyranny comes in MANY forms. IT doesn't take a tyranical president, sometimes all it takes it the decision to not pay minimum wage, or buy an election.
THe ability to stave off tyranny is KEY to the second amendment, and is as relevant now as ever, perhaps even more.
I will refer you back to all the sscreams of tyranny that came from this very board for 8 years under bush, and the blindness many people have to the fact that NOTHING about those complaints changed under Obama. You don't want this right, then we might as well take all of them away. One could argue religion is EVEN MORE deadly than guns, and doesn't require them to do its damage.
You blow me off as paranoid because you don't want to face the FACT that we only have one or two rights left that haven't been completely trampled by our government, and when they remove this one as well, we won't have any way to defend the rest of them.