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The politicians know exactly what they are doing (OK - for the most part. Sheila Jackson Lee is an exception). They want to take away our rights one by one so that they (i.e. Washington) are in control. For those of you old enough, think of the USSR and the Polit Bureau. The Government did the thinking and the people said OK - or they ended up in the gulag. Too many people in this country are asleep and foolish enough to think "Oh that can't happen here." Oh yea, think of all the things that have happened in the last 10 years that twenty years ago would have been unthinkable. The Second Amendment and giving up just a little of our sovereignty is just a first step.

RoyGBiv wrote:We've already lost most of the 4th.

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Which is why I want to smash people in the face when they say "You hate Obama so I'll bet you loved Bush." Wrong. Bush did a few good things, but he sure helped us down the path we are on.
And as far as that goes (the Fourth amendment, that is) the First is pretty-much gone as it was intended. When is the last time you heard somebody express an opinion and get shut down with cries of racist or hate-monger? Try praying in a school. The press is far from truthful; how free is that?

What pisses me off the most about the anti-gunners is the fact that they seem to fail to comprehend that as soon as there is a victory of taking away ONE of our rights, the domino's start to fall. At what point do they wake up and say "OH crap - what the hell happened?"? When we loose freedom of speech? Due process? Search and seizure? Jury trial? Think of how much of the Constitution the current Occupier in the WH has shredded. somehow the libertards just don't get that tyrants soon turn on their own kind. It happens every time.