Re: Guns'n stuff
Renee Zuckerbrot (renee@dachshund.com)
Sun, 02 May 1999 21:10:26 -0400
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>Nah, that's not what I'm advocating or describing. What happens if the
>government decides to take away your rights, regardless of the vote,
>apart from the passage of laws? In other words, I'm describing an
>extreme situation, one similar to the situation America's founding
>fathers were in. They recognized the fact that they could only pull off
>a successful revolution because they themselves were armed. So they made
>provisions allowing for a future revolution should a future incarnation
>of the American government become as oppressive as the government they
>threw off.
I was under the impression that the reason our Founding Father declared the
right to bear arms was because at the time the 13 colonies didn't have a
national militia; instead, we relied on ordinary citizens to fight the
British. These citizens needed muskets, etc. Hence the right to bear
arms. I doubt Jefferson, et al. would condone the right to own a Saturday
Night Special or an AK 47!!
--renee