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Originally Posted by iRiSh
Thanks Bud. What Reason can an ordinary Joe give for him/Her to carry a gun around with them in their day to day lives? |
The second amendment. Funny is they actually ask you right before issuing a CPL, every single person says "Personal protection". You don't need any more of a reason. In reality our second amendment was written to keep our own federal government from oppressing us. The first attempt at organizing our nation did not include a federal government. That is how concerned our founders were of an overreaching and oppressive federal body.
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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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Recent supreme court rulings have re-affirmed that this was not a right delegated to some organized body, but that the militia is the people, and hence it is an individual right. At the time of the writing of the second amendment the militia consisted of all able bodied men of at least 18 years of age.