It amuses me that people in this country can so easily forget and fall into a state of denial regarding government. Even a person who doesn't know much history recognizes names like Hitler, Mussolini, or Saddam Hussein, yet they learn nothing from them. Our country was even founded in an effort to escape tyrannical government (sorry, England, we still love you!), yet people convince themselves it could never really happen. One of the main reasons our founding fathers wrote the right to bear arms into our constitution was so that the people would always have the power to keep the government in check. I have news for you, people. Our government is not only armed, it is armed with assault weapons. What, pray tell, do you think it takes to keep a government like that in check? Water guns? And yet I see all of these people whining and complaining and determined to take the guns out of the hands of the law abiding citizens. Where will that leave us? At the mercy of the criminals and the government, that's where.
The Second Amendment:
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
militia [mi-lish-uh]
—noun
a body of citizens organized in a paramilitary group and typically regarding themselves as defenders of individual rights against the presumed interference of the federal government.
It's been said before and I'll say it again... They can have my gun when they pry it out of my cold dead hands.
