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To: tejek who wrote (241370)	7/13/2005 2:47:09 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 1572919

tejek, re:And that justifies allowing people to own guns.........why? Didn't you read the 2nd amendment? re:Oh, is that what the NRA does......I thought it was glorifying violence and death. That's Hollywood's job. Al Qaeda too, free virgins.

To: tejek who wrote (241370)	7/13/2005 3:06:41 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572919

"And that justifies allowing people to own guns.........why?" Ever heard of the Bill of Rights and the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution? You are obviously ignorant of the basic rights of citizens under a contitutional democracy. On a more fundamental level, why should government have guns? In a democracy power flows from the people and the people are the only ones who should have guns to protect the national security of the nation. This is why our founding fathers sanctified the citizens rights to keep and bear arms in the 2nd Amendment. The citizens are the ultimate power in a representative democracy and have the ultimate right to defend themselves and the national welfare. Government bureaucracies, including the military, should organs that are always subservient to an armed citizenry. 'When bureaucrats begin to subvert the constitutional rights of the citizenry, it becomes necessary for the armed citizenry to replace them. The Declaration of Independence clearly states: The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to ABOLISH IT, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. law.indiana.edu