12-28-2018, 01:09 AM
(01-27-2018, 10:16 PM)nebraska Wrote: Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.
I am not free if I am in fear of a madman's firearms, bombs, or poison. The Second Amendment has its militia clause, and I interpret that clause to suggest that people who can never be a part of a militia due to moral turpitude, drunkenness or other intoxication, criminality, lunacy, or idiocy to have no right to bear arms.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.