A Usenet persona calling itself Nisarel wrote:

Scott Weiser wrote:

That is one of the main purposes of the 2nd Amendment. It is
designed to ensure that the whole populace is well armed at all
times and thus fully capable of rising up in arms against a
government that has stepped beyond the boundaries set for it.

The people in the Ukraine and Lebanon have demostrated that governments can be
overthrown
without guns.

The exception only serves to prove the rule. Hundreds of millions of
disarmed dead prove that your examples are aberrations, nothing more.


The RKBA is obsolete and irrelevant in today's world.

I doubt the dead in Rawanda (among millions of others) would agree with you.
I'd be willing to bet anything that they would have very much like to have
had a right to keep and bear arms, and the arms to go along with it.

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