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Old 07-24-2012, 05:19 PM   #604
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Originally Posted by Makarov View Post

Governments limit personal freedoms in countless different ways every day. Governments also fail to protect their citizens in countless different ways every day. So I don't understand how you can conclude that governments are precluded from limiting personal freedoms if the fail to protect their citizens in any way? Indeed, limiting personal freedoms (for example, controlling the possession and use of guns) is one of the primary ways that governments seek to protect their citizens (for example, from gun violence.)
Yes Governments limits freedoms where it can. Fortunately the Constitution and seperate levels of government keeps them from doing too much.

That doesn't mean that people shouldn't hold whoever is in power accountable for what they don't do or what freedoms they try to take away.
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