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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (133870)	3/28/2001 6:27:37 PM
From: Mark Harjes	Read Replies (1) of 769667

You continue to miss the point... the second amendment is meant to ensure that free individuals have recourse against the tyranny of the state. It's called the 'Revolutionary War', remember?... the vigilance of which Jefferson and the others spoke and wrote must be exercised primarily towards our own government, only secondarily towards other nations. Your comments regarding 'citizen armies' putting down 'revolts' are exactly 180 degrees out of sync. The second amendment is focused on enabling the Nat Turners of the world, as well as the George Washingtons and Patrick Henrys. Have spent half my life in the armed services... understand and appreciate the importance of national security, and the necessity of sacrifice to preserve the nation we love. But I also understand, as did those who first sacrificed to give birth to that nation, the primal importance of individual liberty and responsibility... and the relationship between freely possessing the means to defend that individual liberty and liberty itself.

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