Originally Posted by
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This is a slippery slope fallacy. As I said, it makes just as much sense as saying that if you aren't exercising the right to bear arms, you are eroding that right. I don't think (or hope) anyone here is seriously suggesting everyone has a civic duty to own a gun. I've never even fired a gun, but I am very firm in my protection of that right.
Actually if I'm not mistaken, at one time, yes all males did have a civic duty to own a gun. So much so that again if I am not mistaken that there was a Congressional Mandate saying as much.