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VA: A little more thought on the 2nd Amendment
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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Fundamental human rights are not created and granted by governments. They are inherent and adhere to all of us as individuals. As was made clear in the Declaration of Independence, the proper function of government is to protect human rights: “… they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.…”
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PHORTO
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The author needn't have gone beyond his acknowledgement that bearing arms is a fundamental, preexisting, individual right, and that governments can neither grant nor remove them.
The rest of the screed is useless mental masturbation. |
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| You are bound to meet misfortune if you are unarmed because, among other reasons, people despise you....There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed. In the latter case, there will be suspicion on the one hand and contempt on the other, making cooperation impossible. — Niccolo Machiavelli in "The Prince." |
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