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	Name:	copperline -
	Subject:	Of course there are limits
	Date:	1/20/2013 9:58:55 AM

I think we are agreeing with each other.    I don't think that an armed populace is what would keep the military from taking sinister actions against us, it's their morality and sense of comradeship with civilians.   That's why I think that any notion about arming people sufficiently to defend against an attack by the government is just hysterical fear- mongering...

Yes, the military is full of bright and dedicated people... similarly, the civilian government is also.   These people are not our enemies, they are us.   And while I may disagree with some of those bright & dedicated people, I will not be planning to take up arms against them.

In my opinion, the 2nd Amendment is a good idea, its intentions are fundamentally correct when it was written and in 2013.     I just don't think that a few gun control measures erode it's protections or intent.

To me, the 'armed populace' argument doesn't have a good foundation in reality.   After all, a 20 yr old recruit sitting in an underground bunker in Utah can bring a drone-fired missile to a pin point strike half the world away and never spill his coffee.     Granting me the right to have military-style assault weapons could never make my family safe from that.   But the fact that the 20 yr old has civilian parents, friends and family would.