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user-inactivated  ·  2327 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do we really understand the Second Amendment anymore?

IIRC Hobbes political philosophy effectively boiled down to: the government's job is to keep its citizens alive. Would like to think this would be worth mentioning in an article fancying the idea of freedom as "different strokes for different folks" on the topic of preventing homocide.





johnnyFive  ·  2327 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is, it just seemed to me like she was hiding the ball a little in terms of the underlying part of her argument.