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To: Dayuhan who wrote (5954)	2/15/2001 10:07:17 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Who decides when armed opposition to the government is justifiable or necessary? According to the Declaration of Independence, it's when it "becomes necessary." They laid out a pretty clear list, but I don't think they intended it to be exclusive. what is more dangerous to the average citizen, the possibility of a government unrestrained by private armament or the possibility that a minority of armed citizens might decide that armed opposition to the government is necessary to achieve redress on some issue that only they are concerned about. A question many fat and happy citizens in Boston were asking themselves in the 1770s. How do we stop these hotheads from bringing ruin and destruction on all of us. Myself, I'm kinda glad the hotheads kept it up. I prefer our Constitution to the Magna Carta. Of course, it's not clear to me whether they ever had the wholehearted support of a majority of the population. Don't know enough about history to know that, and anyhow it became pretty dangerous after awhile to express support for England. Tar and feathers were cheap and handy.

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