I am not going to give up on the good fight until the bastards put me in the ground. I know they would be only too happy to do so. Waco demonstrated that very well.
I don't know how long this nation can continue to call itself a Constitutional Republic; certainly, it still stands at least on paper, but much of the true liberty which the Founders wrote of so eloquently no longer exists. Oh, to be sure, we can still go about the nation unimpeded, spend our hard-earned dollars (at least the few that the government "allows" us to keep) on the necessities of life, go to the voting booth every few years and fool ourselves that we are voting for people who really give a damn about what this nation used to stand for, buy guns (the ones the government has approved) as long as we "pass" the government-mandated "tests", and actually carry these arms concealed in a majority of states (again, as long as we can pass the test), but our private property rights have been nearly completely taken away and we labor under the heavy burden of 50% taxation. The RKBA has been turned into the PKBA - Permission to Keep and Bear Arms - and what government giveth, government can taketh away.
As long as these little barriers to real liberty do not cause us much trouble, we willingly submit; but it won't be too long before simple traffic tickets become grounds for denial of the PKBA. If the Brady Boob gets her way, Congress will pass a federal "Needs-based" gun licensing Law. That will effectively be the end of liberty in the US. Once the 2nd is gone, there will be no more need for government to uphold the pretense that the citizenry is free and that it exists solely to defend that freedom. It will finally be the "straw that broke the Camel's back". The only question is whether we will go quietly into the abyss of slavery, or actually summon the courage to follow in the footsteps of the Founders.
