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Marcus Aurelius > wrote:

> If the government doesn't trust it's citizens to own firearms, why
> should the citizens of a nation trust a government not to impose a
> tyranny on them? Republican institutions of free men are based upon
> the premise that it's citizens are rational such that they can be
> trusted to possess fire arms to protect themselves, their communities,
> and the nation, itself. In England, at one time, there was a
> requirement that all freemen possess and train in the use of arms. I
> believe that it was called the Assize of arms (or words of that sort).
> If an English King trusts his subjects so much as that he orders them
> to possess and train arms, then only a tyrannical form of government
> would oppose them!

There are lots of liberals in America would love it if all guns were
confiscated by the police officers. They believe that would solve the
crime problems in America. In truth, crime would get much worse since the
criminals in America would NEVER turn in their guns.