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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
There is a good quote floating out there along the lines of "the beauty of the 2nd amendment is that you don't need it until they try to take it away."
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Communism fell in the USSR and Eastern Europe, largely without violence. I think the days of needing arms to fend off the tyrannical government are over. Civil resistance would be enough in the modern US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989
The Revolutions of 1989 (also known as the Fall of Communism, the Collapse of Communism, the Revolutions of Eastern Europe and the Autumn of Nations[1]) were the revolutions which overthrew the communist states in various Central and Eastern European countries.
The events began in Poland in 1989,[2][3] and continued in Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Romania. One feature common to most of these developments was the extensive use of campaigns of civil resistance demonstrating popular opposition to the continuation of one-party rule and contributing to the pressure for change.[4] Romania was the only Eastern Bloc country to overthrow its Communist regime violently.[5]