[Ohioan]

Actually, it matters a great deal. The more people discover the truth about why the founders bequeathed us the rights they did in the Constitution, the better off we will all be. It is critical to argue from strength when supporting something against which powerful forces are arrayed, such as the right to keep and bear arms. Strength comes from confidence, which comes from knowledge — from knowing one is on the right side of the argument and of history.

Amen!

If we do not want to face the agonizing option of having to go through it all again, we need to rally every intelligent person to the truth--not in the distant future, but here and now. The public is desperately out of touch with the American roots--completely ignorant of values which to the Founding Fathers were second nature. And this issue goes to the ultimate question or just who it is, who has primary responsibility for the American future--if we are to have one. (See The Right & Duty To Keep & Bear Arms.)

It is tragic that the Left has so fragmented the public perception of contemporary issues, that almost no one even sees the clear analogy between the dynamic psychological force which makes the Market Economy work, and the same psychology as reflected in the Founding Father's hope for an America of well armed and responsible households. If we could but get more to see that analogy, we would be a long way home towards bringing Americans with intelligence back to the rest of their now beleaguered heritage. It all flows out of a life view that was and is totally rational, and far and away the most effective vehicle for positive social progress, the world has ever known.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[Wolfstar]

Well-said, Ohioan. By the way, the Hispanic-turned-radical-Islamist dude who was planning the dirty nuke attack was arrested at O'Hare, in your general part of the country. Thank goodness we have hard-working law enforcement officers to apprehend such people. But, in our modern and increasingly dangerous world, the last line of defense for the country is the people themselves. So thank God for giving the founders the wisdom to enshrine our right to keep and bear arms in the Constitution. As a people, at least we are not entirely helpless if it comes to having to defend ourselves from these wackos.