Freedom Is Coming To Mean Little More

The Second Amendment, Like The Rest Of The Bill Of Rights, Was Meant To Inhibit Only The Federal Government, Not The States. The Framers, As The Federalist Papers Attest (see No. 28), Saw The State Militias As Forces That Might Be Summoned Into Action Against The Federal Government Itself, If It Became Tyrannical.

In 100 Years We Have Gone From Teaching Latin And Greek In High School To Teaching Remedial English In College.

At The End Of A Century That Has Seen The Evils Of Communism, Nazism And Other Modern Tyrannies, The Impulse To Centralize Power Remains Amazingly Persistent.

Most Americans Aren't The Sort Of Citizens The Founding Fathers Expected; They Are Contented Serfs. Far From Being Active Critics Of Government, They Assume That Its Might Makes It Right.

Tyranny Seldom Announces Itself...in Fact, A Tyranny May Exist Without An Individual Tyrant. A Whole Government, Even A Democratically Elected One, May Be Tyrannical.