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Originally posted by lendaddy
Though it sounds goofy, the whole idea is that we are able to own weapons powerful (competatively) enough to kill those in government when/if we are opressed. To protect us from our own government.
Sure it sounds crazy now, but that was really the whole point.
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It doesn't just SOUND crazy.
That's the whole point of the 2nd amendment? I don't think the founders were worried about protecting the people from their own government. The militia was intended to provide a military arm in defense of a young nation that didn't have a tax base to pay for a standing professional army.