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Actually, I believe that it does. Just because gun owners do not immediately start shooting at the first sign of injustice does not mean that they never will. Even the founders recognized that. From the Declaration of Independence:
That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
How exactly are people to alter or abolish a government that has become destructive of their rights without the use of arms? The fact that the courts were used to effect the return of the weapons in New Orleans is proof that the government still works, and that the use of arms to alter or abolish the government was not necessary.
One Mayor taking guns over a 10 day period is a "light and transient" cause. What do you suppose would have happened if the gun grab would have caught on and happened nationwide? Did you notice that quite a few states passed laws to prevent what happened in NOLA from happening again? In that sense, the issue was one without bloodshed. Suffering while evils were sufferable and winning without having to abolish the forms they were accustomed to.
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