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James Lawson: ‘Doomsday provision’
01:00 AM EDT on Friday, July 3, 2009
As Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2003 wrote: “The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for re-election and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.”
Progressives and statists, are you listening?
JAMES LAWSON
North Kingstown
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