The 2nd Amendment

[Lady's Human]

Any recommendation would be entirely situational. A self-defense weapon is not a one size fits all item. What would work for me wouldn't necessarily work for Blue, or Karen, etc.

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Jenn, even though it was a hypothetical question you could find a local firing range that gives firearm safety and training courses. The class and training could make you more comfortable being around firearms and people carrying firearms. It would also give you personal experience to pick a firearm you are most comfortable with, without actually owning one.

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All misdirection aside, I see Pucks point.

Without the Second Amendment our rights mean nothing. Without the 2nd Amendment we have nothing to make sure our rights mean anything. Without the 2nd Amendment we are pawns at best and slaves at worst.

Puck can correct me if I am wrong, but without the 2nd Amendment we would live under a tyrannical government and not a democratic republic.

[Puckstop31]

All misdirection aside, I see Pucks point.

Without the Second Amendment our rights mean nothing. Without the 2nd Amendment we have nothing to make sure our rights mean anything. Without the 2nd Amendment we are pawns at best and slaves at worst.

Puck can correct me if I am wrong, but without the 2nd Amendment we would live under a tyrannical government and not a democratic republic.

Like I said, I believe the 2nd Amendment is our FIRST freedom.

A repeal of the 2nd Amendment does not directly mean we then live under a dictator... But it would remove a MAJOR obstacle to any aspiring dictator.

Now ask me if I think the left will openly try to outright repeal the 2nd Amendment? Not likely. It would be political suicide at best, or lead to a real civil war at worst. No, they re going tp pick at it. They are going to use the courts, like they always do with their really radical stuff, because they know they could never get any of it past the voters. That is the real shame. I reckon that is why the "cost of freedom is eternal vigilence".

Finally, like I have said before, I am not worried. If my country chooses to make me a criminal for owning certain inanimate objects, so be it. There are MILLIONS of people who share my feelings on this particular issue. I would rather die free than live a slave.

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Here is the archived link for Obama's transistion team agenda that was removed yesterday. Link, scroll down to CRIME AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.

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Pulled this from another board.

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.'

'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.'

'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.'

'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years'

'During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage.