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Amen to that. For those that may not know, this is the photograph she used in official campaign photos when she ran for Lieutenant governor. [/quote]
I respect her service in the Marine Corps and don't have a big issue with her holding that gun. I still disagree with her on just about everything else though.[/quote]

I'm the PP. I too respect peoples' military service and my dad was a marine as well. But, unlike you, I have an issue with her choosing a photo of herself [b]holding a rifle AS A CIVILIAN [/b]as her primary campaign photo. It's frankly bizarre. She can emphasize her military career all she wants in her speeches, written campaign materials, and interviews, but posing with an actual gun is a bridge too far for me. It would be seen as bizarre or extreme in most places on earth, not just here in the US among Dems. [/quote]

“An armed man is a citizen; an unarmed man is a subject.” - John Adams

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The John Adams quote that best summarizes how he might feel about Donald Trump’s actions, based on concerns about concentrated power and the need for institutional checks, is:

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” - John Adams

Sounds like John Adams would’ve had a thing or two to say about Trump‘s current accumulation of all powers in the hands of a single man given Adams’s fear of unchecked power.

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Live by the Jouhn Adams quote, die by the John Adams quote.[/quote]

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