[Who is John Galt?]

"The objection that the war is water over the dam and that the problems of the present demand our attention is valid providing that history is all bunk and that there is nothing to learn from our past. But the problems of the present are largely the legacy of the past, and if the past had settled them right they wouldn't confront us at the present time."

I am reminded of the 1990s, and the passage of the liberals' beloved federal "gun bans." It was amazing to me how absolutely clueless they were, in terms of how seriously such a constitutional infringement was viewed by quite a large number of Americans. They had learned nothing from history, and were just as oblivious to the risk of violence and division as were the antebellum northerners, including Mr. Lincoln himself. (Gabor S. Boritt, Director of the Civil War Institute, and Fluhrer Professor at Gettysburg College, details the latter in his "And the War Came"? Abraham Lincoln and the Question of Individual Responsibility.)

[phi11yguy19]

yup. take the means of self defense from the law abiding citizens, and the threat of retaliation away from lawless criminals, and all human nature’s problems will be solved. liberal logic is beautiful in it’s madness.

not to mention that the history of evil dictatorships expanding their power with the “noble” task of disarming the citizens. i wonder why the founders felt the need to protect such a right...

[Colonel Kangaroo]

No government in American history has been more enthusiastic gun grabbers than the Confederates during the Civil War.