Arms provide us the responsibility, duty, and right to overthrow a Government which oversteps it's bounds and renders itself a BURDEN instead of a SERVANT of the People.
One could argue that over a trillion dollars a year in overspending ... is quite a burden. Our forefathers couldn't comprehend how twisted and misshapen and bloated our government of the people, for the people, and by the people, could eventually become.
Everyone keeps saying "oh my goodness they're going to take away X/Y/Z and we won't be a free people anymore"
I'm sorry, but that train departed the station a long time ago.
The government cannot get ITSELF in check. It cannot spend responsibly. It cannot legislate responsibly. It cannot engage in foreign affairs responsibly. It cannot promote our freedom, our way of life, effectively and is viewed as "an evil empire" or "an empire of greed"....
To which, yes, that IS what we've become.
Our Government is a cancer, grown out of control.
The only remaining question is how many wheelbarrows you'll need to use to haul the cash to buy your loaf of bread in 20 years when all of these bonds come due. They've borrowed an extension, an artificial extension, to our vaulted "Golden Age" on the backs of our Children and Grand Children... the future generations pay for our sloth, our greed, our consumption without replenishment, our need to satiate desires instantaneously on the backs of foreign slave labor (even if it's just economic slavery; still slavery, off shored).
No, this country is broke, in many ways, and getting more broke by the year. When our current system of government FAILS...
These guns I own make sure I have a say in how it's reconstituted.
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