<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">But the police and soldiers would have guns with </span><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​or​</div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"> without the second amendment.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">John K Clark</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">Where would we be without the 2nd amendment?  More or less the same, I think.  Think of the frontier society we had until fairly recently - guns were essential to taming the West.  A lot of people in the South and West feed their families via guns.  (Killing the most dangerous animal we have - deer.)</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">Someone with more of a legal background than I have would know if the 2nd amendment has kept arms in the hands of the people.  Has confiscation ever been tried in the USA?  I think we have never been without them.  So why worry?  (Alfred Neuman).</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:05 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 9:30 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">The government is not more tyrannical because they worry the police and soldiers they send out to subdue the population would shoot the government.</blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></div></span><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div></span><font size="4">But the police and soldiers would have guns with <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​or​</div> without the second amendment.<br><br>John K Clark</font><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>
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