Sentences with phrase «armed citizenry»

Many second amendment supporters do hold with the intent as expressed by Madison in that the 2nd Amendment is an unofficial «Fourth» check on the government, and that should government not correct it's over reaches, an armed citizenry will correct the over reach.

All pretense to the concept of armed citizenry as a defense against a standing army was obliterated by the Union Army during the civil war.

Perhaps if they had an armed citizenry they wouldnt have been run down in Tiananmen Sqaure so easily by their on government.

But is arming the citizenry a good way to offset the risk of crime?

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Do you not think N. Korea would be different if the citizenry were armed?

In these cities, people arm themselves because crime and insecurity create a permanent war among the citizenry.

Without a citizenry armed with weapons of military application, we lose our last deterrent to tyranny, and thus, we lose everything.

Also we believe that the time has come for the powers of the Supreme Court and all arms of government to be put in proper context and where it is found that it enables the semblance of arbitrariness, steps taken to protect the citizenry.

ISIS flowed into northern Iraq well armed and facing a shattered and largely disarmed citizenry, and it is near impossible to arrest the guy with the bigger gun when you don't have one.

According to the developers, the sequel to the popular superhero sandbox game sees Pacific City infested with test subjects escaped from the sinister Shai - Gen Corporation's research facility, prompting the besieged citizenry to form a group called The Cell to raise arms against all genetically altered individuals, both mutant and agent alike.