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Re:Ripple fined for acting as a money services business with... by nmrm2 on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @12:56AM (#9496651)
> limit ownership of firearms

Slavery limited, among other far more obvious things, access to firearms.

> control speech to stop anti-american and pro-british propaganda and the like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts

In general and in specifics, not even the founding fathers agreed on the appropriate trade-off between security and personal liberty. Perhaps the one thing they did agree on is democratic self-governance and the rule of law.

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