On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:39:43 GMT, "Cecil Chapman"
wrote:

The second amendment just recognizes that it was important
for its' citizens to have access to guns in order to have a militia to call,
in times of threat.
and
The average citizen has NO need to have . . .
an AK-47??? Joe Citizen has NO needs for
that.

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Our forefathers believed that the People had natural and unalienable
rights. Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness. How's that for some
rights? But just so there was no misunderstanding, they specified &
enumerated certain critical rights.
There is a reason the 2nd Amendment wasn't the 4th or the 7th or 10th
- it's importance to the Founding Fathers was second in importance to
the freedom to speak!
That is because they had just removed an exisitng government, by
bloody revolution, that had become the enemy of the People. The
average American today seems to not understand how they were thinking,
or what was their sacrifice, but it is evident in the writings of
those times.
No matter how you choose to interpret or twist the wording to fit your
agenda, they intended for the People to be armed so that they could
again remove ANY government if or when it became an enemy of the
People.
You can say that it is now impossible for the citizens of the US to
ovethrow the government by force, and you are entirely right. Our only
hope in the face of mass disobedience, would be that the military
would refuse to fire upon and kill it's own citizens, and would turn
upon those who ordered them to do so. That is not something to be
proud of in my opinion. Slowly but surely over 200 years, we have
given up the right & duty to preserve the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights.
Just say what you really mean, that the 2nd Amendment is obsolete.
That the government is able to take care of us all, and there IS NO
NEED FOR citizens to own firearms any longer, except as a token
freedom. After all, the 4th Amendent appears to be obsolete, since the
US Border Patrol feels it's perfectly OK to set up roadblocks and
checkpoints to stop, detain and search US citizens without probable
cause, dozens of miles from any border, every day, at least here in
California.
Remember however, that in many communities in this country it would be
easy to get voters to approve a ban on flying by private citizens.
There is NO NEED for private citizens to be flying those dangerous
things. It's best left to the airlines and the military!