The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed – where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.
Judge Alex Kozinski, dissenting, Silveira v. Lockyer, denial to re-hear en banc, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 2003.
This is a much better stating of one of the reasons I give why I own guns.
May 3, 2013 at 4:38 am
That was just a regular post. Ãœberposts tend to be a minimum of 5,000 words and 20 hyperlinks. But thanks!!