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I take it that most of you who have replied were taught in GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS. You need to sit down and read why the Second Amendment was placed 2nd.

The men who founded this country wanted to make sure that if the government they founded got as oppressive as the one they overthrew, there would be a mechanism in place to overthrow it. From the brainwashed replies posted here, I'd say we've reached that point.

re: I'd say we've reached that point

Take a moment and read through the complaints the founders had with England that lead to the Declaration of Independence! Many of them are the very same things we face today.

The average family today spends about 50 percent of what it earns to pay taxes. Granted, the highest income tax rate isn't that high, but when you include taxes at every level from the special taxing districts to cities to the feds the total going for taxes now is close to half, more in some areas.

The individual citizen has little control over what's done in Washington. You elect a person based on what they promise to do and once they are in office you no assurance they will keep their promise.

The method by which the Congress, especially the Senate, makes laws is so convoluted and confusing that it bears hardly any resemblance to how laws were passed two hundred years ago. Senate rules are piled on top of Senate rules and you end up with situations that the founders never intended, like 60 votes to confirm a Supreme Court justice. Or earmarks that cost amount to nothing more than Congress spending billions and billions of OUR money to buy OUR votes for the incumbent.

How about the fact that the wording of the 1st Amendment "CONGRESS shall make no law" being bastardized to the point the courts tell us that means even private organizations like the Boy Scouts? Or that cities must remove crosses from their official seals?

I would say we have reached the point where the federal government is as oppressive as the one we overthrew in 1776.

>>>The men who founded this country wanted to make sure that if the government they founded got as oppressive as the one they overthrew, there would be a mechanism in place to overthrow it. <<<

Ding! Ding! Ding! Give that man a cigar!