Criminal Deeds

[kandrathe]

No seriously, when your government decides to attack you, the citizen of the US you will be able to defend yourself for a while.

But... It's not only them. It's really anyone. Going back to "the rights of humanity" -- we have the "right" to self defense.

Up till then your weapon-hapiness has a cost. And I think that most US citizens are willing to pay that price.

And... we have a big benefit. Freedom. We live in a society where people are FREE to defend themselves.

I personally find basing the way you set up a country on a few 100 year old document 'strange', but I guess the weapon lobby is a bit like a church in that sense.....using such an old document is a great way of getting what you want...people tend to respect it more than some angry old white guys.

No. Our laws (and Constitution) are built upon the foundation of the ages of political thought. The Magna Carta, John Locke, Voltaire, Cicero, Demosthenes, Aristotle... etc. Patrick Henry, (one of our founding revolutionaries) said, "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

The mechanism of government being necessary to ensure that rights are secure and covenants are kept -- without which we descend into the anarchy of "might over rights".