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		PaulAJ on Jan 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Black and Whitey: How the feds disable criminal d... So how, exactly, does the Second Amendment protect you from this?

talmand on Jan 3, 2013 [–]

It doesn't, as the Second Amendment is not designed to protect citizens from overzealous prosecutors but from a tyrannical government. These examples do not cross that threshold.

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