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is not an individual right (because it can lead to anarchy). In the urban industrial society of today a general right to bear efficient arms so as to be enabled to resist oppression by the government would mean that gangs could exercise an extra-legal rule which would defeat the whole bill of rights.

Quoting Roscoe Pound, he argues compellingly that an individual right to revolution might lead to anarchy: 'In the urban industrial society of today a general right to bear efficient arms so as to be enabled to resist oppression by the government would mean that gangs could exercise an extra-legal rule which would defeat the whole Bill of Rights.'39 Henigan calls this disturbing portrait 'the insurrectionist vision of America.'40 And he warns that the insurrectionist theory 'represents a profoundly dangerous doctrine of unrestrained individual rights which, if adopted by the courts, would threaten the rule of law itself.'

 must be stable, but it must not stand still.

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

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