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backscatter712

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6. Yep, and Thom Hartmann talked about the true purpose of the Second Amendment:
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 07:32 PM
Jan 2013

To protect the country and the government from foreign and domestic threats. First threat on the list after the Constitution went into effect was the Whiskey Rebellion, which George Washington ruthlessly put down, leading the troops himself.

And yes, the War of Southern Treason also falls in that category.

Of course, today, we don't use citizen's militias. We have a modern standing military and police forces for that.

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