"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."-Ben Franklin. There is a reason why the right to keep and bear arms exists immediately after the right to free speach- without the second, you would have already lost the first. It is not about hunting or self defence....it is about having the tools required to keep our government in check! "But if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights" Alexander Hamilton

Echoes from over two centuries past that could not be more relevant today. The best thing any one person could do for our nation is the best that they can do for themselves.

I wonder if Barak Obama ever considered this............