"Matthews: Is Gun Control Resistance and Gun Ownership Because "We Really Don’t Believe In Government?"
Even the police tell us, arm yourselves, by the time we arrive, it’s too late. So yes, we can’t count on government and a government we COULD count on around the clock is a government we wouldn’t want.
I believe we need government, but that government should be extremely limited in power and scope. There are any number of failed societies throughout history that show us the horrors that ensue when governments and individuals amass too much power over others' lives.
I own firearms for defense of life and liberty. That may range from the very small - stopping an assault on myself, my family, or an innocent bystander by direct use of a firearm. To the large - stopping an assault on our freedoms and liberties by the government by the mere fact that I own them and will not surrender them.
Let him go back to his homosexual fantasy over Obama (the tingle going up his leg). That is on a par with this comment.
It is because no government devised by man can be trusted with a monopoly on lethal force. Any attempt to create such a monopoly is proof positive that the totalitarian impulse of all governments is being obeyed, and in a sane society the perpetrators would meet the traitor’s fate that they deserve.