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Originally Posted by detbuch
A few words later in the same long sentence wherein Jefferson states the rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" he says "that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it . . ." To those average citizens who truly believe they have that right, it would seem to be a very valid need to own the types of weapons that, banded with their fellow average citizens, would enable them to alter, etc., that government that threatened to destroy their unalienable rights.
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Timmothy McVeigh was executed for letting his interpretation of
these same words influence his actions to the point where he was killing Americans to defend their freedom from Government.
It's a slipperly slope you're on.
-spence
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