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AntiFascist

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15. Sorry, but that's not what I meant. The first idea expressed in the 2nd Amendment is simply to maintain a free State...

Reply to maxsolomon (Reply #14)

Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:20 PM

Mar 28

If the Federal government comes into your State and starts arresting legal residents and hauling them out of the state to detain them, unconstitutionally, then you begin to no longer have a free State, and the Federal Government begins to act like an autocratic dictatorship.

American Gun Culture would like to have you believe that the 2nd Amendment is all about an individual's right to carry a gun and, whenever the situation warrants it, to take the law into their own hands. The idea of a "well regulated militia" is to conform to a state's regulations under the 2nd Amendment. Whether you like it or not, some States already have such militias.

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Sorry, but that's not what I meant. The first idea expressed in the 2nd Amendment is simply to maintain a free State... AntiFascist Mar 28 #15

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