>>What is the purpose of a gun?
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>as a deterrant against the state seizing my private property....
>governments have committed one atrocity after another in the name of "the greater good".
>my biggest fear is not some random criminal... i can handle that...
>my biggest fear is the Toronto Police force...
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>the founding fathers of America put the 2nd amendment into the US constitution for many good reasons...
>i could provide a 100 page reply.

Geat real... do you think that the circumstances of that new nation are comparable to today? It is like saying that the bible or koran should still be followed to the exact written text today? Kill, having multiple wives, adultery, Cutting off hands, etc. BTW, Canada is not the US. Even though a kid got killed with a gun on a school a few hundred meters away when I was in Toronto it is not even that worse there.