Reply #128: That's nice. But in THIS nation we have the Bill of Rights, which protects our basic rights, even

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from an over-reaching majority.

Madison was VERY clever. He saw your type coming over 200 years ago...

"Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents"

James Madison
New York, Oct 17, 1788


BTW, note his use of the word "private" - apparently he too knew the right to arms which he included in his proposed amendments/bill of rights, besides being thought an absolute restriction, would also secure that right and others for the people as individuals.