(December 17, 2012 at 7:40 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(December 17, 2012 at 5:31 pm)Ryantology Wrote: Let's be realistic: the second amendment is going to do jack shit against a government determined to grind you down. What good is your handcannon going to be when the enemy has drones, spy satellites, and can monitor all your communications--programs which were championed by guys in government who seem totally okay with the amendment?
Doesn't it seem like both ends are being played by the same people?
In a practical sense, the second amendment is entirely pointless as its intended purpose is obsolete.
I've heard this argument many times, and I don't buy it. We can't even properly subdue small population countries in the middle east. How many people are there in the Taliban? All the drones and spy satellites and we haven't taken out them yet. There are 300 million Americans. Armed and motivated and there is very little the US army could do.
How about this argument? How many times have we had to shed a tyrant off our backs in the last 200 years? None. How many civilians has the 2nd amendment killed? Hundreds of thousands. Not a good track record, IMHO. Time to amend the 2nd amendment.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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