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Mr Khan said:
DialgaMarine said:
It's not a matter of how it can be used. It's whole purpose IS to be used to defend ourselves from government, just every other unalienable right within the Bill of Rights/ Constitution. They're designed to protect from a tyrannical government and give us the power to put a stop to it if ours were to ever reach that point. Second Amendment just happens to be one of the most important ones in the sense it's pretty much the one that once the people lose it, there's no hope for the rest. Just take a quick glimpse at some of the worst political powers throughout history, and you'll find that the governments first order of business was, just about always, to remove arms from the people. Why is this? The people can no longer defend themselves.

Example: USA without 2nd Amendment but still has 1st scenario

Me: *Publicly protesting recent law passed on Capital hill
Government Official: "What are you doing?"
Me: "Expressing my right to free speech"
Government Official: *hold gun to my head "No you're not."

Just think about this for 5 seconds...

And if you threaten to shoot the officer, or actually shoot him? What then? Go all John McClane and kill off a whole SWAT Unit?

 Not at all. Think about mutually assured destruction. The thing that kept the world in one piece during the Cold War era. We don't have the 2nd ammendment so people can run around all willy nilly shooting up governemnt officials for no reason. We have it so that the people will always have the ability to defend themselves against a government that wants to overpower. We, the people, are are supposed to have more power than the government could ever even dream of having. If the goverment wants to try and overrule the people, they're gonna have a nasty fight on their hands. That's the point of the 2nd amendment.





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