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Time to start preparing
The Homeland Security Act is the scariest thing to come down the pike in the United States in a very, very long time. You can read about it here.
What can we do? Write your Congress-critters. Do not email them. Email gets ignored. Whip out the word processors and put your words on paper. Calling them also gets registered.
If it does pass, use cash whenever possible. Especially when you buy ammo for the weapons we should all own before the 2004 election season. The Second Amendment is the reset switch on the U.S. Constitution.
What can we do? Write your Congress-critters. Do not email them. Email gets ignored. Whip out the word processors and put your words on paper. Calling them also gets registered.
If it does pass, use cash whenever possible. Especially when you buy ammo for the weapons we should all own before the 2004 election season. The Second Amendment is the reset switch on the U.S. Constitution.
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...Besides, we are a Constitutional Republic and not a straight Democracy.
The point of which is to insure the rights of those not in the voting majority.
(The whole point behind ennumerated Constitutional Rights, the Electoral College, the Senate vs. House designs, the appointment of Senators early on in lieu of direct election, the Supreme Court and Appeals Courts, etc.)
Enough of a "minority", or a grouping of such, can force the issue and protect their interests with the rest forced to either fight and kill them and risk their own skins or to accede and let them either go their own way or change the Constitution accomodate their concerns.
Admittedly, the last time this happened in large scale, the "minority" lost after a number of bloody years.
Most votes doesn't always mean right.
Bread and circusses and all that.