# A little gun history

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**Created:** [December 23, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-little-gun-history/40711 "2007-12-23T21:29:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-little-gun-history/40711/64 "2007-12-24T11:33:37Z")

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> [@ILCisDEAD](#):
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> The Bill of Rights (1–10)
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> The Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Those amendments were adopted between **1789 and 1791**
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> You don’t feel that in 218 years, when this was written times have changed enough to pretty much make this worthless.
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> 1789 people took months to get from one side of the US to the other (oh yea, many didn’t know how far that actually was) So by having guns they were able to hunt for food.
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> Also, what kind of organized policing did they have? The local militia, which was good citizens protecting.
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> And your remark about the people being able to uprise against the government. Power of words over violence
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> We have a military, we have police, we have organized neighbor hood watches. Unless you are from texas, what point do you having a gun on you is going to serve?
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> Most people that have a gun don’t understand the laws anyway, probably many “defending” themselves will be convicted of murder.
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> I Agree that crimes happen that involve weapons, but do you think arming people is going to be the step in the right direction?

You do realize that the ONLY crime by a citizen with a LEGALLY obtained machine gun since **1934** was a COP! Yes, a police officer was the **ONLY** person to use a LEGALLY owned machine gun in a crime in the US in the past 73 years! There are more machine guns in the hands of private law abiding citizens in the us than there are in the hands of the US military and police combined…and the only person to use one in a crime that was legally purchased was a police officer…so tell me how endangered we all really are by citizens owning firearms.

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