Reply #88: What About New Orleans ?

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IT DID HAPPEN !....As long as American citizens are willing to sacrifice their liberty for protection , they deserve neither. Benjamin Franklin stated this, and I agree. If we as a people are willing to sacrifice liberties when terrorists attack,...then the terrorists WIN !.....When American citizens are willing to sacrifice liberty,...the government "assumes" that it can just walk in and take our liberties away from us.
Without the 2nd Amendment,....we would become subjects rather than citizens. The 2nd Amendment is not only there as a acknowledgement of the right of self defence. It is also there as a defence against government tyranny. The right to keep and bear arms is not a privilege granted to the citizens by the government,....it is a RIGHT of the people in spite of our government. If the government can grant us rights,.....then they can take them away.