Comment Re:Sheesh (Score 1) 318
"We expect people to be able to make moral decision"
Then be able to hold a (figurative) knife to their throat, for positive reinforcement. You may never need it, but trust alone is stupid and we all know it.
The Second Amendment exists for very good reason. One day, the laws and the lawgivers may not protect you. Any freedom worth having is worth taking lives to protect.
If the Founders hadn't been willing to send ball and shot and bayonet through the bodies of their Crown oppressors we'd still be a colony. Good causes are worth killing for after all other means are exhaused.