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#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power

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The Value of the Individual Is So Core to the American System

The value of the individual is so core to the American system that you basically cannot possibly do the kind of atrocities in the Soviet Union, he says. Gun ownership is about personal freedom, I think, for a lot of people. Most of the mass shootings are usually perpetrated by people who have not self-defense weapons, but mass killing, mass killing weapons,. The Constitution talks about a right to bear arms for a well-regulated militia when the framers talked about arms that did not mean the ability to kill as many people as many others.

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