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Originally Posted by azimuth
Tyranny and despotism will never even germinate if the ability to destroy it is present. I dare say, we might not have seen WWI or WWII if righteous individuals properly armed, unified and organized had been there to prevent govt run amok. How many hundreds of thousands-millions of lives could have been saved by a nation of well armed yet good natured people?...
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History has an interesting effect on rhetoric. The US Civil War was one of the bloodiest in the battles between brothers. Would gun ownership have saved the First Nation tribes against "manifest destiny", the Hawaiian monarchy against the US Marines or the Japanese Americans against their imprisonment?
Have to wonder.
11-09-2008, 05:53 PM
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