The ONLY reason we are a free country today is because of the English bill of rights of 1689. Which is what our bill of rights is based off of. So the settlers of our country fled England and founded this country. While still under British law they had the right to bear arms. So when the revolutionary war began many of the firearms that our soldiers used to defeat the British were borrowed or taken from everyday folks. Without that British right to bear arms this country would have lost its battle to become free from England. By this country now restricting our rights down to nothing has done nothing but cause our goverment to become tyrants. The very reason settlers left England. All the patriots have died in vain. I served my country and placed my life on the line to uphold the very rights this country was founded on.
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 "...that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government..."

See: Declaration of Independence

That why the average length of a civilization is 500 years.

Both the Romans and Greeks lasted about 350 years.

America is just shy of 300.