Re:Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ
by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @07:37PM
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> The US constitution was framed expressly to overthrow the colonial rulers and keep them out...
No, it wasn't, throwing out the colonial rulers was done under the Articles of Confederation.
The US Constitution was framed several years after that effort was completed, to deal with the problem that that the government under the AoC was too weak to get anything done outside of the imminent life-or-death struggle of the Revolution.
The US constitution was framed expressly to overthrow the colonial rulers and keep them out...
The Swiss are all armed for the same reason
'the long-standing practice of a militia organization of the Swiss Army in which soldiers' service rifles are stored privately at home' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Switzerland