| helterskelter808 |
08-21-2011 12:05 PM |
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Originally Posted by HerPimp
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Most of us are guilty of looking to opinions in the media to how things should be done. Ron Paul looks to our constitution and founding fathers as to how this country should be run.
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The founding fathers are dead. They have been for quite some time.
They lived most of their lives before the USA even existed in any form whatsoever. Their USA was a tiny post-colonial backwater of absolutely no significance to the world; the USA of today is the most important and influential country on the planet.
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Why do you to have the right to arms?
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Because even in the time of the founding fathers people thought the Constitution wasn't perfect.
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Has nothing to do with hunting or home protection.
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True, it's to protect Americans from a long dead British King.
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?When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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"When the people argue with bumper stickers, there is truly no hope." ~ Me
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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.? ~ Jefferson
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Far from being against tyranny, the insurgency of 1776, incited by a handful of rich slave owners who didn't want to pay tax, was against a long standing and established Parliamentary democracy that had its own Bill Of Rights -- with, BTW, a right to bear arms -- long before any founding father was even a twinkle in mom's eye.
In fact if the "tyranny" was so bad, it's remarkable how the "liberated" people copied so much from it, in their "independence". The language, the flag, national anthems, the Bill Of Rights, hell, even the shape of the Capitol buildings. Likewise the legal system of the "tyranny", which still forms the basis of much law in the US, as well as numerous other democracies around the world.
Yep, some "tyranny".
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin
Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither. ~Jefferson
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What do other slave owners have to say on the subject of "freedom" and "liberty"? |
