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[–] Battlefat 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

It's one man's opinion, but Tocqueville sure was an observant SOB. I'd like to believe he'd hold a different stance regarding an armed population -- if this was his musing on America, then he felt certain of this outcome.

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[–] carlip 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I'm sure he would have been fine with it. At the time he travelled the US he remarked that he had never known a populace to be so knowledgeable about its government and constitution.