Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Second Amendment Lessons From Iraq

What Americans mistakenly do is transfer their beliefs regarding distrust of government onto others. The vast majority of people around this world believe government to be a good, not evil, force in their lives." Well put. Even a well-armed populace can be oppressed if it doesn’t have the will to rebel. I might add that even in the United States, detractors of the Second Amendment, and even many of its supporters, tend to trust government too much and see it as a force for good as long as their side is in power.

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Comments:
Gumbofile:

I'm a Yellow Dog Democrat. But like many other Yellow Dog Democrats, I believe the 2nd Amendment means what it says, and the right to bear arms should not be taken away.

"That government is best which governs least." -- Thomas Paine
 
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