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yes we are a different breed.we're mostly anglo-celtic,like your founding fathers were.as to your point about throwing off 'colonial rule',we were never taxed without representation so why would we rebel against........ourselves?and here we dont need any governments permission to bear arms.gun laws are laughable to our 2 million(and who knows how many more) gun owners.we have more firepower than the military and police force combined.how do ya think you'd go rebelling against your giant fed/military/police force?

god bless those yanks,but please take away the minoritys misguided,condescending attitudes.You all would be just perfect without them.

how do ya think you'd go rebelling against your giant fed/military/police force?

This is a long-standing argument against the second amendment here in America. However, our police and military consist of patriotic individuals. They are frequently some of our strongest second amendment advocates. If our Constitution were usurped by a tyrannical potentate, we presume we could count on them to stand for freedom, not against it.

The point remains: once you are disarmed, you have no choice. Our Founding Fathers knew that, and that is why our firearms rights are so sacred to us. This belief is also steeped in a fight for independence that began the moment the English decided to try to subdue Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. They concluded the British chapter of that war with the Oath of Culloden that disarmed the Jacobites. However, we won that war for independence in America, and we do not aim to fight it on our own soil again any time soon.

The following is an excerpt from an interview with Holocaust survivor Theodore Haas conducted by Aaron Zelman for JPFO. He makes it clear that an armed populace is much more resistant to totalitarian evils:

QUESTION: Did the camp inmates ever bring up the topic, "If only we were armed before, we would not be here now"?

ANSWER: Many, many times. Before Adolph Hitler came to power, there was a black market in firearms, but the German people had been so conditioned to be law abiding, that they would never consider buying an unregistered gun. The German people really believed that only hoodlums own such guns. What fools we were. It truly frightens me to see how the government, media, and some police groups in America are pushing for the same mindset. In my opinion, the people of America had better start asking and demanding answers to some hard questions about firearms ownership, especially if the government does not trust me to own firearms, why or how can the people be expected to trust the government?

Disarmament is prelude to oppression. Australia is being disarmed. We're free to draw our own conclusions. Meanwhile we have our own problems here in America, but we're doing everything we can about it now -- before it's too late.

The Port Arthur massacre in 1996 that led to the move to disarm Australians is a familiar prelude to seizing weapons. But those who desire security at the expense of freedom deserve neither, as our Benjamin Franklin so aptly wrote.