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Originally Posted by buggyone
Figmo, you mean you believe that Joe Citizen should be allowed to have M-60 machine guns, M-79 40 mm grenade launchers, LAWs, a howitzer or two, a Bradley tank, Patriot missles with launcher, and a Nike silo in the backyard? My nomenclatures are outdated, I am sure.
I see nothing wrong with someone having a reasonable number of shotguns, rifles, and pistols for hunting, sport, or personal defense but to say all citizens should be armed with the same weapons as the military, to me, is going beyond the beyonds.
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Figmo gives you a concise answer, and as usual when you don't like an answer but have no response, you go a bit off.
The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is for the citizens to pose a deterrent to a government gone wild. This is the genius of our founders vision and forethought. They'll still be in possessions of superior firepower, but the numbers of armed citizens outnumber the forces which can be mobilized against them in the case of a rogue government.
This is why every country who's government devolves into socialism has the number one priority of disarming it's citizens.