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Originally Posted by Pio1980
A general query;
What, exactly, is the rationale and practical point of the second amendment as written in full, in our post-revolutionary era, when other similar countries do fine without it and our proliferation of mass killings?
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Oh the rationalizations vary, stuff about hunting and self-defense, and the right of people to take up arms against tyrrany. What tyrrany? The attempts to regulate arms, see?
But the real reason is guns symbolize 'us,' and the ones who don't like them are 'them.' You know--the cultural enemy. It's not rational, it's emotional.