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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: combjelly who wrote (892866)10/10/2015 1:28:37 AM
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>> The idea that the Founders intended to have an armed citizenry so they could engage in armed rebellion when they chose to is, uh, detached from reality.

“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” – George Mason, Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1778

“[W]hat country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” – Letter to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787; The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Federal Edition (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5) Vol. 5
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