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I am not sure I could trust a supposed man of god who combined his Clint Eastwood and his Robert de Niro
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Around the world there are many Military Coups, and Dictators taking and holding power by force. An armed populace, while it does carry a risk of breeding radicals, can also prevent total collapse of the legitimate government.
When in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.[...]Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. [...]it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
I'm all for personal responsibility but I don't think it follows that the collective responsibility
The purpose of the 2nd amendment is to allow the general populace to overthrow the government, should it become tyrannical and oppressive.