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Hamilton in IL
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 11:53 PM

R.K. Sprau,

The rights to the acquisition of game had nothing to do with the reasons for the second amendment.

Civilians need military assault weapons as a counter-balance to a potential corrupt military. Can any nation rely 100% on the perpetual allegiance of its military? No.

The Founders also included restrictions on the size of our military for the same reason.

I agree with you that the problem isn't the weapons, but I don't the type of weapons either. If the type of weapons were the problem, then our military would be racked with carnage, but they're not. Like I said to the big-game hunting braggart above, "It's a poor carpenter who blames his tools".

The problem is the combination of a wide array of American maladies, embedded into our culture, some of which you quite correctly cited.

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