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WayneS
At 4/19/2020 03:53 PM, you wrote:
>On 4/19/2020 1:37 PM, JOHN DUGGAN via olympus wrote:
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>>Just catching up on various news reports regarding Coronavirus. Listening to
>>Agent Orange's latest pronouncements I watched a news report showing
>>Rightwing groups armed with Military grade weaponry joining protests against
>>"Lockdown". To see this in a country with a history of Political
>>assassinations and mass killings really shocked me. How can a supposedly
>>civilised country allow idiots with the intelligence level of a peanut to
>>proudly parade the streets legally armed to the teeth.
>>Word really fail me.
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>Part of the deal that got our Constitution approved was a package of ten
>amendments, called The Bill of Rights.
>
>The Second Amendment is very terse, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary
>to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear
>Arms, shall not be infringed."
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>Its roots in a new country that had to fight a war with another to get
>independence are clear.
>
>It has been controversial from its inception. The current legal status ignores
>"A well regulated Militia" and makes ". . . the right of the people to keep
>and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." the operative part.
>
>The push-pull over this is just one example of the political disagreements
>endemic in our country. If, for whatever reason, you would like to understand
>the cultural roots of this dichotomy, I recommend "American Nations", by Colin
>Woodard. It is, IMO, a better analysis and exposition than the earlier "The
>Nine Nations of North America" by Joel Garreau"
>
>Fragmented Moose
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