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Old 03-08-2015, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by donquixote99 View Post
Show me a militia that acted to preserve precious liberty from tyranny and oppression, and I'll show you 10 that acted to inflict oppression on minorities and workers.

The founders were way off base with the 2nd. It should be repealed.
That was never the Founders' intent. To be honest, they saw it in part as a tool of suppression, if not actually opression, and they used it that way more than once.

I'd like to see it repealed too, though I have no illusions of that ever happening, but the reason I'd like it gone is that it's an anachronism in search of a purpose so every crazy SOB invents his own personal assortment of paranoid fantasies for why we have to have it.

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