If everyone had a gun and were encouraged to carry them openly and use them liberally, we wouldn’t really need government for much. It’s the only honest form of democracy.
Compared to the rest of the world at the time, the Old West was a nice place to be. Class wars, gang riots, and crime sprees ended quicker than you can say ‘Winchester’.
>If everyone had a gun and were encouraged to carry them openly and use them liberally, we wouldn’t really need government for much. It’s the only honest form of democracy.
Agreed. And much of the discontent we’re feeling now is because we’ve “suffered a long train of abuses”, to quote the Declaration of Independence.
>Compared to the rest of the world at the time, the Old West was a nice place to be. Class wars, gang riots, and crime sprees ended quicker than you can say ‘Winchester’.
A well-regulated militia does not mean one burdened with massive regulations and bureaucratic legalities, but rather a “well-practiced” one... as in effective.