To: a fool in paradise
The United States is one of few developed nations that accepts the notion of firearms in public hands. The United States is one of few developed nations that accepts the notion of Freedom, with all its positive and negative possibilities...
4 posted on
07/26/2012 12:08:04 AM PDT by
sargon
(I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
To: sargon
James Madison had something to say about that.
"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of." --James Madison, Federalist No. 46, 1788
10 posted on
07/26/2012 6:33:37 AM PDT by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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