The good Doctor has an excellent post about the second amendment:
Sometimes liberals sneer at the idea we might keep arms against government tyranny, because a bunch of pistol-packing Tea Party types have no chance of repeating the success of the Revolution against a modern military force. This completely misses the point. A disarmed populace has little choice but to obey orders. If the population is armed, a tyrant’s forces have to do more than just brandish their weapons… they’d have to start pulling triggers. Victory for a righteous populace would come in the military’s refusal to pull those triggers. Tyranny should never be easy. Of course, it should never come to that again, in the United States. As long as the population is armed, this is an understanding, and a duty… not an assumption.
I know a lot of folks don't like Mike V at Sipsey St, but this is a drum he's beaten for a while now. It's not the threat of violence that he advocates, it's the promise of retribution for criminal behavior, regardless of who perpetrates it.
Doc, and his commenters, agree.
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