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National Security & Defense

Clayguy61

(31 posts) Wed Dec 23, 2015, 12:05 AM Dec 2015

Standing armies are danger to liberty

I created this for a government class. The founding fathers hated standing armies and quotes from them on their concerns hit home. Should we decrease the size of the military? How far? Can we go back to no standing army in peacetime?

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Standing armies are danger to liberty (Original Post) Clayguy61 Dec 2015 OP

its the civilian gun owners that are murdering 30K americans every year msongs Dec 2015 #1

msongs

(67,392 posts)

1. its the civilian gun owners that are murdering 30K americans every year

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Wed Dec 23, 2015, 04:33 AM

Dec 2015

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