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Originally Posted by jwham
Although your American history is a little better in this post than in your last, you have down played the role of the Militia to fit your anti gun opinion, the truth is..
American Militia lacked the training and discipline of soldiers with more experience, but were more numerous and could overwhelm regular troops, as at the battles of Concord, Bennington and Saratoga, and the siege of Boston proved.
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That's just it. In order to overcome regulars, the militia needed significant numerical superiority, which any band of conscripts with two weeks training could do. So what advantage does their experience with firearms give them?
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Originally Posted by jwham
There are other reasons for the right to bear arms other than enabling the people to organize a militia system, such as.. Deterring our government from becoming an totalitarian government, we yanks do not want our government to forget they serve us, not us them.
The chief reason America has remained a free country is the widespread private ownership of firearms. Individual ownership of guns made the American Revolution possible. The principal purpose of the Second Amendment was to maintain our freedom from government. It is an insult to our heritage to imply that the Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment just to protect deer hunters.
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Polls show that up to 80% of the public believe citizens have a constitutional right to own guns.
* George Mason: "To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
* Richard Henry Lee: "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
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Do you understand how totalitarian systems even work? It's not the black and white picture of the evil tyrant single handedly enslaving his subjects. Totalitarian systems require a wide spread network of people that benefit from the system and are keen to maintain it.
Take a look at North Korea. In a country of 24 million, 1.5 million are soldiers. That means every fifth man of fighting age carries an assault rifle, making North Koreans the most heavily armed nation in the world. By your standards, that country is the epitome of democracy
And look at all the other examples where weapons empowered people to stand up to their governments: Italy 1922, 40 000 freedom fighters under the great Benito Mussolini stand up against oppression; Chile 1973, a small band of patriots overthrow the disastrously ineffective president and open a chapter of unprecedented freedom; Again in 1922, he famous expert on moral Eamon De Valera started the Irish civil war with the glorious sentence: "The majority have no right to do wrong!" after he lost the vote.
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Originally Posted by jwham
I take you as anti-white, and that is racist.
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I am not anti white, just against racial policies. And in the West, those come from white people. That's not to say these were the only ones in the world. China has a long history of racial laws, Japan not far behind.
Black people, Native American...all can also be racist, but due to lack of economic power have not enforced their racism in forms of laws.