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Still no answer to how we deal with increases in violence and the breakdown in nuclear families, loss of moral, ethical and civil standards.

Semi automatic arms have been with us for quite awhile. Guns haven’t changed, people holding them have. Mental health screening, back ground checks prior to gun purchasing are welcome by all the responsible gun owners I know. Most are “AR” owners as well as handgun owners, Dems and GOP. None of them are crazed 2A militants. Yet we all believe in the 2A.

It’s a tired trope, “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” anti-gun folks make fun of 2A folks with. But it’s simplicity belies obvious truth.

At the 1775 battle of Concord and Lexington, Colonial forces of volunteers armed with a mixture of muskets and ‘long-rifles’ fought British Regulars armed with ‘Brown Bess’ muskets - the modern standard military firearms of the time. The point? To fight oppression you need to be similarly armed to exact the same damage to them as they are doing to you. But the State is All powerful- it has heavier weapons and will crush whoever challenges it - so challenging the State is pretty serious business. It’s the US Constitution that keeps us between the white lines. But only if we want to.

Opponents to the both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, then and now, do not understand the finer meaning of self-defense as it applies to state tyranny.

How does one defeat a future Trump state regime run rampant, or a Progressive-fascist regime running against Constitutional law? What if the military backs Trump narcissist paranoia or a Leftist fascist regime seeks to limit power, liberty and freedom to an elite oligarchy? God forbid that should ever come to pass.

I can assure you, if Trump were to seize power and turn the military into his private army all those anti gun-anti 2A folks would be scrambling to find a Saturday nite special or “unregistered 30 round semi-auto.” They’d pay big bucks, too.

Will the oppressed want succession? Civil war? How does that happen?

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