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The antigun people look at "the people" as a crowd that must be controlled. They look at us much as a warden looks at his inmates; they assume that if we are able, we will do something terrible. Their mentality of control thinks only of depriving individuals of the means of doing something terrible. Take away their hardware, and they will be manageable.

Our founding fathers looked at "the people" in an utterly opposite manner. They assumed that Americans would, for the most part, be decent and moral people, and that their rights were a sacred tenet of our existence. They believed in innocence until proven guilty, and in the right to live one's life as one pleases, without undue interference from any government. They praised the benefit of virtuous people being armed. They had it right.

John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” And he was right on the money. A moral and religious people, armed with effective weapons, makes for the safest and most polite society imaginable.

So now we have crack dealers and gang bangers. I'm sure there were contemporary equivalent types of people 200 years ago. The difference is that back then, when someone did terrible things, he bore personal responsibility for his actions and he paid the price. No one would have thought for a moment that everyone should be disarmed if a bad man shot someone, they would have gone after the bad man and removed him from society, and possibly from life. Then the moral and religious people went on with their lives.

Now we have Ted Kennedy and Schumer and Hillary! who have the warden mentality. Worse, they have a socialist warden mentality. However, they are not stupid. They know exactly how we think, and what we hold dear. They know what the penalty for high treason is, and what the second amendment was designed to cure. They don't want the second amendment to be implemented. They tried to legislate it away, they tried to explain it as a state's right, they tried to sweep it under the rug and demonize it and call it a hunting clause. But they know what it means.

We're more than 50-50 likely to have a Democrat in the White House in 2008, with a Democratic Congress. It could be the "perfect storm" for legislation.

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