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Beers with our Founding Fathers

The police do not have a duty to protect, and this dates back

hundreds of years. This is one of four reasons why the Second
Amendment exists. The four reasons derive from the defense of

Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness: 1) Self-defense or self-
protection; 2) Defense of the people – from family and property to

local and national; 3) Protection from a police state; and 4) from our
Declaration of Independence, “That whenever any form of

government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the
people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying

its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such
form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and

happiness.”
Control is about control. Banning is about banning. Regulating

by legislation (the common misconception of the meaning in the
Second Amendment) is purely subjective and usually based on

uninformed, or more accurately, misinformed personal opinions and
biases. There are more than enough unenforced and badly written

laws on the books to subjectively address the issue of firearms. I
have been giving this whole gun control thing some contemplative

consideration. Under the premise that a gun cannot, of its own
inanimate volition, self-discharge, or consequently harm or kill any

one, I have come up with the following criteria of who should be
banned from legally buying or possessing a firearm. Here are the

criteria I would put forth:

 Under any indictment or felony charge in any court for a
felony, or any other crime, for which the judge could
imprison you for more than one year; or

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