Well first off, I never said that AR 15s are the only issue or even give my personal opinion in the beginning of how I felt about them, that was twisted by the gun GANG OF 8 on here, there is about 8 gun people that are messaging me, replying to me, ganging twisting what I am saying, etc., my point was that the talking points right now are about gun regulations, more background checks, many things and maybe getting rid of some of the AR 15 type weapons, I didn't even say my views on the AR 15 at first, was kind of pushed into that topic. I was speaking of the fact that LaPierre and Fox News, and Beck and all the others that people listen to on a regular basis and some politicians even, make it seem like any regulations on guns at all means they are taking all your guns away. That was my point. It got twisted into this by people taking parts of what I said out of context. Then I finally went along with what they were saying and tried to give my personal views about it. The fact is that any gun people I know and even you all on here, you don't want regulations do you. If you do lets talk about what you do want and what can be done, but really what I have seen on here is the same baloney, no regulations, all guns are ok, and I put on on here that even the very FF intended guns to be for the militia for the men who were well trained and well regulated militia who were trained to defend our country against foreign invaders, etc. That is a fact. Stop saying i'm not putting on facts bc I am, just bc you don't like them doesn't make m not facts. All I see is what you don't want as far as guns and LaPierre and Fox News and the like are tied with the gun people and push that agenda and message, that any regulations means they will come and take all your guns away and actually I put on here that LaPierre stated even farther, they want to take all your rights away, obvious propaganda, bc it certainly makes them a lot of money. I live in NY state, they did not take away the AR 15s totally, you have to limit the rounds in them or something, I'm about having the talk, the discussion, from people on all sides not just these crazy propaganda things. What I am saying is not propaganda, it is fact.
FACT: So again - James Madison: In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.
Madison also noted that never-ending war tends to destroy both liberty and prosperity:
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied: and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.