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Originally posted by Sir Taliesin:
Davros, I hope for all your sakes that if ever we have a despotic regime take over the United States, that there will be some backbone in this country to pick up a deer rifle and go after said despotic ruler. Otherwise woe be to the world, because it's for sure no one else will try to do anything about it!
And I agree that currently, that is very unlikely to happen, but given some more 9/11s and who knows what we may face. It could be like the days of Rome all over again. What is it they say, Men who don't learn from History are doomed to repeat it.
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Sure the saying says history repeats, but really - are you asking me to believe a despotic grab is possible under the current system? The legslature and the party system have take over.
No guy can lead for longer than 2 terms - man, that is a great rule that I wish all countries would adopt. It's the ones that have the potential to rule for ever that never want to let the power go. Every 4 years you trot off to the people and ask have I done a good enough job for you to keep me, and they decide if you are too much crap for them to stomach for anther 4 years or not. While in power your rulers are at the very least concerned for the 50% of the populace that voted them in, and trying to woo another few % more to shore up victory next time. No one can come to power and act the total prat under the party system, because either the people (at election) or the party (to save face with the people) will turf out the crazed and the greedy.
I hark again then that the right to bear arms to maintain the potential to overthrow unjust self governance is a nonsense in this day and age. It is a dinosaur piece of legislation that should have been reviewed and renewed years ago. If you ask yourself who are the major proponents for its retention it is (by majority) the gun lobbyists. The fiction that they need preserved the right to one day overthrow the government is a sham - what they do want preserved is the right to access weapons that the 2nd amendment permits. It don't mater if it is good legislation or bad, current or outdated - if it supports the argument that they can go get hardware when they want it then it's good legislation according to the NRA.