| I don't care about majorities: I worry about them. Majorities are easily misled, fooled, bamboozled, hoodooed, and tricked into doing whatever a charismatic leader tells them to. We have a Republic specifically in order to protect us from majorities.
You're correct about the FF's wanting us to be able to defend ourselves; what you miss is whom we were to defend ourselves against. Their concern was not muggers, it was tyrants and genocidists. Have you ever noticed that NOBODY has mucked around with the Swiss lately? Like, in the last 800 years? It's because the Swiss are ( and always have been ) Neutral and ARMED. They keep machineguns in their homes and take their machineguns with them to the Polling Place on election day. They carry them in the streets, in the open, when they go to one of their monthy Schutzenfestein, practice whenever they like, and carry wherever they like. Not only do they have the lowest violent-crime rate in the entire world, they have a Government which is responsive, accountable to the people, and small: IOW, a Government that KNOWS ITS' PLACE and stays there. |