On 15-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

No, it's not. You don't understand the nature of rights or the function of
the Constitution. Rights are not granted by the Constitution, government
powers are limited by it.

If the constitution can be changed thru amendments, then the power is in
the hands of the politicians. No constitution is cast in stone, not yours,
not anyone's.

True, but it's extremely unlikely to be repealed,

Which contradicts your whining complaints about my supposed
misunderstanding of your constitution.

Unlikely is not the same as impossible. You still don't have
absolute freedom.

If those guns allow someone to overthrow the government, you
can't guarantee that the new goverment will be true to the original
constitution. It could just as likely be overthrown by a bunch
of communists as by capitalists.


More like 100-200,000.

Still a small fraction of 18 million.

The vast majority are doing nothing. In opposition is about
150,000 US and Brit troops. That's pretty close to one-on-one.

There is no National Guard in this country. It's a US thing.

Well, there you go. You're a slave who doesn't even know where to find the
arms needed to put down a tyrant. Ipse dixit, quod erat demonstrandum.

Just because there is no branch of the armed forces named "National Guard"
means nothing. We don't have a national police force called the FBI, nor
an intelligence agency called the CIA, nor a government called a Congress,
nor a lower house called a House of Representatives, nor states nor a lot
of other things you have in the US. We do have RCMP, CSIS, Parliament,
House of Commons and provinces. Different country, different names and
ways of dealing with it. It proves nothing.

We don't need guns, we got hockey sticks and we know how to use them.

Mike