Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"...and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." The men who wrote this were also those who had a hand in writing the US Constitution. The 2nd Amendment is there for the defense of our homes and a well regulated militia, yes, but as the framers wrote it, they were thinking not of attack from the British at all. The 2nd Amendment is our "reset button" for the United States. Phil Forrest Who gets teary-eyed every time he reads the Declaration of Independence. It's such a good piece of writing. I'll stop clogging up the list now.