Originally Posted by
thegodfather
For those of you unfamiliar with US politics, let me explain. The founding fathers of our country wrote in several checks&balances on governments power. The various branches of government which had equal power, the legislative, judiciary, executive, etc. They are supposed to curtail one anothers power if one or the other ever becomes too abusive. These founders realised from looking at thousands of years of human history in politics, that even with such safeguards there were still ways that government could usurp its restrictions and become despotic in order to oppress the people. The 2nd Amendment, the right for the people to bear arms, was never really intended as self-defense against muggers and theives(although certainly useful as such), rather it was intended as the LAST CHECK&BALANCE against a tyrannical government. The founders realised that if a large percentage of the population was equipped with the latest military style/grade weapons that the government could never go back on the Bill of Rights and oppress the people because the people could over throw that government. The founders plagarized a great deal of material from John Locke, one such instance John Locke wrote that (off the top of my head), "governments are instituted among men, in order to serve their interests, and whenever such government becomes destructive to those ends, it is the peoples right, in fact their duty to throw off such government." In addition it was written, I think by Jefferson, that "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Which I believe It to be totally necessary as previously stated but for a long time the gun controllers have pointed at crime at the reason that gun control should be implemented with current statistics after approved open carry legislation even that contention can now be successfully refuted.. its become a joke...
If you want a good example of what happens when the populace becomes largely disarmed, you can look to England. Their violent crime rate SKY ROCKETED after firearms became illegal. In addition, New Labour, passed a huge number of laws which are completely ridiculous and oppressive to free people everywhere. They have more CCTV cameras on the streets than people, they are required to surrender personal medical information to the government, and one other such nonsensical law is that they can be arrested if they have too much trash in their trash can to the point that the lid wont close completely. They can use the judicial recourse, but they are playing on New Labours playing field, and by New Labours rules, so the game is rigged basically. Then what final recourse do they have? None, they just have to bend over, lube up, and take it !
Disgusting I recently read an article where a girl was fined something in the neighborhood of 120pound for putting her trashbin out 2 hours early the night before...
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