The right of the people to keep and bear...arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country... -- I Annals of Congress 434 (June 8, 1789).

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political inst…