[45Auto]

When push comes to shove, it would be darn hard to resist the jack-boots of tyranny with Hentoff's word processor. Left-wing morons don't see the nature of the world they live in, nor the world their ancestors lived in. History is one long march of tyrannies, oligarchies, monarchies, "people's republics", and downright Marxist/Stalinist/Leninist dictatorships (Cuba, Zimbabwe). And even those guys did not invent oppression and tyranny. No dictator ever gave up power voluntarily. Idiots who think they can write their way out of subjugation by ruthless murdering tyrants, are woefully ignorant of the mass of history and equally ignorant when thinking "it can't happen here." The experiment in liberty known as the United States of America has only been around for a small fraction of time relative to the existence of human society. And there is nothing, save arms in the hands of patriots, that can possibly save it from being over-run by enemies "foreign and domestic". Its what the 2nd Amendment is all about. I damn all those who think they can steal liberty from me.

[alwaysconservative]

People usually write lists in order of importance. On OUR list, the first amendment was about freedom, of speech, religion, and assembly; while the second one was about keeping that freedom against the encroachment of tyranny. That tells you that the founders thought the 2nd amendment was vitally important to the defense of liberty.