The U S A was once a beacon of hope to the world. We had Supreme Court justices who reasoned thus:
When I first went to China in 1977, after 25 years of USA being "running dog imperialists" we were recast as the one country that re-invested war booty back into China. While the Europeans took indemnities and mulcts back to Europe, the USA used the money to build universities and hospitals in China. We were thought of as good guys in a bad situation.
Guns! Religion! USA! USA! USA!
We had it worked out for a while.
Hong Kong started at the same time with the same ideas. It worked out better for them, probably for being smaller. Time for USA to rediscover states rights?
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The real object of the First Amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to an hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government. It thus cut off the means of religious persecution, (the vice and pest of former ages,) and of the subversion of the rights of conscience in matters of religion, which had been trampled upon almost from the days of the Apostles to the present age.Moslems! Replace Christian with Moslem and there is a solution to your infighting!
The militia is the natural defence [sic] of a free country against sudden foreign invasions domestic insurrections and domestic usurpations of power by rulers It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace both from the enormous expenses with which they are attended and the facile means which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers to subvert the government or trample upon the rights of the people The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers and will generally even if these are successful the first instance enable the people to resist and triumph over them And yet though this truth would seem so clear and the importance of a well regulated would seem so undeniable it cannot be disguised that among the American people there is a growing to any system of militia discipline and a disposition from a sense of its burthens [sic] to be rid of all regulations How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization it is difficult to see There is certainly no small danger that indifference may lead to disgust and disgust to contempt and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.[21]The second Amendment was to assure Americans stayed armed, armed against invaders, the police and the military. It was fear that Americans might disarm that the second amendment making sure Americans were armed and trained to use them (militia) that we have this amendment. through World War Two soldiers were allowed to bring enemy weapons home (smaller arms) and through WWI soldiers were offered the gun they used. An armed populace was assumed.
When I first went to China in 1977, after 25 years of USA being "running dog imperialists" we were recast as the one country that re-invested war booty back into China. While the Europeans took indemnities and mulcts back to Europe, the USA used the money to build universities and hospitals in China. We were thought of as good guys in a bad situation.
Guns! Religion! USA! USA! USA!
We had it worked out for a while.
Hong Kong started at the same time with the same ideas. It worked out better for them, probably for being smaller. Time for USA to rediscover states rights?
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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