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usaf-vet

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4. So if our worst nightmare were to come true and Trump did win a second term and abolished the....
Fri Oct 13, 2023, 11:35 PM
Oct 2023

...the entire Constitution.

What would happen to the Second Amendment? The right to bear arms. Name me a dictatorship where they ALLOW their "subjects" to own guns. Why not? Insurrection by armed citizens would likely be the result.

What would happen to the First Amendment, the free speech clause? They surely wouldn't want anyone challenging the dictator with free speech.

What would happen to the 4th Amendment the right to privacy? Unreasonable search and seizure?

What would happen to the 5th Amendment your right to not incriminate yourself? Pleading the 5th.

Shall I go on?

I'll bet there is not one among us who doesn't want to give up their rights. PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION.
And hand those rights only to a dictator and his trusted few.


Look at Putin; he has to look over his shoulder every day. Look at history few dictators live and die of normal cause.

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