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Message: <blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 1124429" data-attributes="member: 29553"><p>This thread started out answering why you carry a gun.  But it ignores the question of should you carry one.  Do you really think the writers of the constitution wanted individual americans armed to the teeth so they could kill cops and soldiers and  other govt representatives??Those founding fathers thought that people would be protected against tyranny through a representative republic  operating within a framework of the rule of law and checks and balances.  A "well regulated militia" did not mean the right to own an unregulated arsenal in your basement or the right to walk into the public with a semi automatic rifle with a 100 bullet magazine!!  Its real purpose was to maintain the "security of the State" NOT to undermine that security with mass killings !!</p></blockquote><p></p>