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    | NH: Suggesting 2nd Amendment supports armed rebellion is nonsense Submitted by: 
			
Mark A. Taff
 Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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    | Since a semi-automatic is semi, not fully automatic they included them in the list of weapons permitted for the public. History has shown that to have been a grave error. Because of the rapid fire capability of semi-automatics they are the weapon of choice for mass murderers, haters, and suicidal crazies determined to take down innocents in the process. The AR-15 with 30 round clips greatly magnifies the harm they can inflict before being taken down themselves.
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    | Comment by: 
     MarkHamTownsend
     (12/29/2018) |  
    | The author is suggesting that the purpose of the armed militia was  to put down uprisings like Shay's revolt,  not insurrection. Bizarrely,  he doesn't understand that BOTH are correct and NOT mutually exclusive.  Defending against unjustified uprisings would be a legitimate purpose .... but so would defending against a tyrannical government.
 Oh .... as usual,  the author claims there is no right to have full auto, and even semiauto AR-15s are a mistake..... so there's ONE MORE SMART A $$  out there who does not understand what "infringe" means.
 
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    | Comment by: 
     Stripeseven
     (12/30/2018) |  
    | In the minds of the deciders, disarmament of a free people is necessary to implement that new tyrannical regime that they so desperately seek. They never quit... |  
 
 
     
  
    | Comment by: 
     jac
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    | Another flaming liberal that doesn't understand history. |  
 
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                      | Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children.  — Dave Kopel and Dr. Michael S. Brown, Prohibition Fever, NationalReview.com |  |  |