[fortes fortuna juvat]

If it ever comes to that in this country, I expect the second amendment to be our last bulwark of defense.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
Next to last.

[rlmorel]

I think you mean that the First Amendment precedes the 2nd Amendment...and in that, if that is what you meant, I most emphatically concede that point and agree.

If the First Amendment disappears, the Second Amendment does too, and we will be in a wholly new place.

Well, not wholly new, but hundreds of years into the past.