[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Sorry, but I can’t agree with your analogy.

Drugs do not give the citizenry the ability to actively and powerfully resist tyranny.

There is all the difference in the world in outlawing substances used as a recreational departure from normalcy (which you may consider a use of freedom) and outlawing the very means that a free people would use to remain free (firearms ownership).

[fr_freak]

Drugs do not give the citizenry the ability to actively and powerfully resist tyranny.

That is true, but my point was that we wouldn't even be discussing the gun rights question in this country if we hadn't opened the door to this type of thinking by granting the federal government the legal (and moral) authority to regulate things like individual drug use. That was the nose under the tent. Once we accepted that the government had the authority to do that, the the gun question becomes simply a matter of whether it should, not whether it can.