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To: Behind the Blue Wall
The thing is, we're so far away from that. Who here favors dismantling the "standing armies" of the United States?

Even if the standing armies, under a tyranny, surely could win out over even an armed populace, that is no reason to allow disarming OF the populace under the notion of, "Well, what's the point nowadays?"

6 posted on 12/23/2012 10:46:03 AM PST by pogo101
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To: pogo101

I don’t disagree, but if one of the central arguments underlying the right to bear arms is to “repel invasions” before an army can be organized, then we’ve already long since ceded that argument by allowing the federal government to maintain standing armies in times of peace.


10 posted on 12/23/2012 11:01:49 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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