Quote:wmbwinn
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The discussion is larger than crime.
The 2nd amendment is specifically in place to allow citizens to protect themselves. period.
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Quote: Mavdog
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what????? the 2nd amendment relates to a militia and 'the security of a free state", it has NOTHING to do with individual citizen's "protection".
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The second amendment assures the individual right to own and bear arms. Read the SCOTUS decision if you like. It is a settled matter.
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -Thomas Jefferson
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