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What is actually alarming is the number of people who think that if the government decided to take away your constitutional rights that signing petitions and voting for other politicians will somehow restore those rights.If they can take away your rights or falsely reinterpret a right as a means of denying you a right then they can do the same thing with the first amendment,your right to vote and other many other rights.
Why do some people who can't get what they want via elections (it would take a large majority vote to repeal the 2nd amendment) then conclude they will get what they want by violence?
It is dunderhead talk and one the public would radically oppose, as would the government. Tens of millions believe what the government did at Waco with the Branch Dravidians was horrifically wrong. Even a jury found so. I did. Yet the public profoundly opposed Timothy McVey resorting to his act of terrorism against the government. My view as to kill the SOB. So was the view of the vast majority, regardless of the "injustice" of government he was retaliating against.
It is known how the government always has and will react to revolution, violent or non-violent. The oft excessive opposition to the non-violent OWS the most recent example.
The government and citizens both don't just have muskets face off with each other with now. The government has vast spying networks, massive numbers of law enforcement and military at all levels. Mini-guns and F16, tanks and helicopter gunships. Angry citizens revolting with their banana clip AR15s over the their right to keep them would either surrender or die quickly. And, like McVey, the vast majority of Americans would cheer their capture or deaths.
If you can't keep your rights as you see them within the structure of our democratic republic - such as however it is - you will lose those rights. Democracy by design is ongoing NON-VIOLENT revolution.
If you cannot win in our non-violent democratic election-revolution-option system, you absolutely cannot win by violence. The response to violent revolution is you get blown away. And you should. If you want to try to secure and hold your "rights" with weapons and violence, there are numerous countries you could move to where that is how rights are fought over.
Here's the reality in the USA. Most people just want to live their lives, raise their kids, have a secure income, decent house and food, some hobbies, their Internet, cell phone and TV. They just want to live their own lives. When someone starts shooting? The overwhelming number of people want that person or group completely eliminated ASAP anyway possible. They won't care why the person is shooting. The shooting endangers them so they want that person or group wiped out right away.
People wanting AR15s, 50 cal sniper rifles and such because they may have to fight the government is a major reason both the government and many people don't want anyone having those weapons. It's bad PR for the 2nd Amendment to claim weapons are needed to protect our rights from the government. You protect your rights at the ballot box. In THIS country you protect your rights with words and votes, not bullets and bombs.
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