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"And, when I hear this crazy talk, I agree with them openly. “You are right. They will pry your gun from your cold dead hands,” which I often follow with the question, “And where will that leave you except face down in a pool of your own blood [in] the middle of the street, just another dead fool resisting the State?” This is not a question they are comfortable with, if only because the intent of their saber-rattling was to imply they would fight to keep their weapons, and win. Nice fantasy. It’s not happening.

That makes it sound like being a slave to the state is somehow "better" than being dead ... which is cowardice. More than half a million people died fighting in the Civil War. Having dealt with slavery themselves, they knew "freedom" was worth risk of death. Better to be face down in a pool of blood fighting for freedom than enslaved. Are we truly so willing to hold our arms at the ready for shackling? I am not.