Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Gun Controllers Unwittingly Support Unsafe Societal Conditions [View all]discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,490 posts)...are under the control of free people, some of the only free people, and they live here in the US. 4.5% of the world's population own half the guns. We don't wait for the government to protect us because when seconds count, law enforcement is minutes away. We operate by trusting the government to deal with those criminals whom we've encountered for the balance of their lives.
The government and our fellow US residents operate in trust relationship. Since our Constitution and Bill of Rights were written most of the world has followed that lead. The world will also follow our lead in freedom, personal arms and the 'pursuit of happiness'.
Niccolò Machiavelli: "Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years." (At the age of 29, was elected as head of the second chancery.)
Joseph Story: "The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people." (At the age of thirty-two, Story became the youngest ever Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.)