Maybe he saw it as such.The_root_of_all_evil said:TsunamiWombat said:Thats why the 2nd ammendment exists. The Founding Fathers realized corruption could come further down the road and really didn't expect democracy to work, so they gave the citizens the right to bear arms so they could overthrow a tyrranical government if it came to it. Obviously doing things through due process is better, but after living 8 years under president Bush I wondered once or twice...So Lee Harvey Oswald was just using his Second Amendment right? Is that what you're saying?cobrausn said:Hey I could agree with that. It's not often a government forms itself with the clause in it's founding documents that if it ever fucks up too much to go ahead and take them out. =PThe_root_of_all_evil said:Penn usually has some good ideas, but occasionally (like on the Firearms debate: "We need guns to overthrow the Government" : I'm sorry, what?????), he disappears up his own idea chute.
I'm simply saying that an armed populace is difficult to opress. Tyrants tend to agree, which is why history is littered with them. They all disarm their populace. For their protection, naturally.
But this is a bit off topic.