There are so many people complaining about the Second Amendment and how it is antiquated and should no longer apply because we dont live in the same world as it was when it was written. It was written because they knew firsthand what it was like to live under an oppressive government.

Also it has been said that the civilian population does not need military style weapons. Maybe they are right, but if our forefathers had not had weapons equal to the ones the British had, we would never have won our independence. Can you imagine what it would have been like to have fought them with bow and arrows instead of flintlocks like the British had? Our forefathers knew firsthand that if the population doesnt have the ability to defend itself against oppressors, we are at their mercy.

When a dictator comes to power, the first thing he does is disarm the population so they have no defense. When asked at the end of WWII of some of the surviving Japanese Naval and Air Force officers why they never considered invading the U.S, they said they knew that we had government-sponsored rifle matches, shotgun and pistol matches, and Americans were privately armed. They would have to attack an armed and trained civilian population, and there would be a gun behind every blade of grass.

We had all better pray that we never have to give up our guns. If we do, we are at the governments mercy, and we are doomed. No matter what laws are passed, bad people will always find a way to get around it. All the laws that were on the books at 9/11 didnt stop the hijackers who armed only with box cutters killed over 3,000 people and brought our country to its knees.

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