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Originally Posted by Vintageismygame
We, the people must be armed to keep our government in their place. End of story. And please do not continue to confuse Automatic weapons with Semi-Automatic weapons.
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This, I believe, is the reason our Founders wrote the second amendment. They had just fought off an out of control tyrannical government, and understood that it could happen again. In this day and age of uncertainty, I think the trust in government is extremely low. Tyranny sneaks in, it doesn't announce itself. It was not about "hunting" (the right of the people to bear arms)
The Khmer Rouge (The Communist Party of Cambodia) won power from a right wing military government in 1975 after a five year long bloody civil war. The people of Cambodia were tired, and hoped for times of peace. They were terribly disapointed, as the Khmer Rouge's fanatical leader Pol Pot instituted social and agricultural reforms that ravaged the country.
Under Pol Pot & the Khmer Rouge, with their extreme Marxist philosophy, only the uneducated workers and the peasants were to be trusted. The skilled workers, the middle class, the rich, and the intellectuals of Cambodia were all potential threats/ counter-revolutionaries in the eyes of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. They were systematically arrested and tortured. Those that survived, were forcibly "re-educated" as agricultural laborers (slaves).
They were forced to work and live in total squalor, usually denied tools to do their work, and made to use their bare hands. Thousands were executed on the slightest pretext, or they simply lay down and died in what became famously known as "The Killing Fields".
It is estimated that over 1.5 million people were slaughtered in this way, before Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge were given the boot in 1979 by an invading Vietnamese army. Cambodia's intellectual classes and skilled workers were almost destroyed by less than four years of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge's repression.
This is just one instance in our not so distant past that an out of control government slaughtered their own people. It's called democide. If you disarm the public, this is what can possibly happen (not saying it will, but look back at world history to see for yourself).
Can it happen here? Who the hell wants to find out ????? People want to be able to protect themselves *from any danger*. God Bless America.
Sincerely, Clayton