1. 2nd Amendment Rights
... away. Firearms are our ultimate recourse against a corrupt regime. An armed populace is very difficult to rule by force; it's a powerful deterrent to tyranny (Ventura, 2001, p.136). In 1992, Senator John H. Chafee proposed a bill to require the government confiscation of almost all of the sixty million privately owned handguns in the nation. (Bovard, 2000, p.217) The Ultimate goal of the Anti ... -Gun crowd is plain simple and obvious, confiscation! In 1983, Rep. John Dingell, liberal chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and ...
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