A Hypocritical Etiquette Forces Us To Pretend

Government Is The Agent Of Those Who Are Too Refined To Do Their Own Mugging.

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.

De-christianizing America Has Been High On The Progressive Agenda, And, Thanks To The Government (especially The Federal Courts), It Has Been A Great Success. Nor Can We Overlook The Contribution Of The Entertainment Industry, Which Now Determines What Passes For 'culture.' The Main Practical Vehicle Of De-christianization Has Been The Sexual Revolution. A Few Radicals Have Called For The Abolition Of The Family, But Most Liberals Have Been More Discreet, Avoiding Hostile Rhetoric While Quietly But Constantly Pursuing Policies That Result In Lower Birthrates And Fatherless Children.

Tax Time Approaches, And Americans Are As Always Paying H & R Block Billions To Help Them Save Some Of Their Wealth From Their Ravenous Government. Pitiful, In A Way: It Underlines The Grim But Unacknowledged Fact That The Government Is Their Enemy And They Have To Hire Protection From It. But Don't We Enjoy 'self-government'? Well, If We Have It, I'd Hardly Say We Enjoy It. True, We Aren't Being Taxed By The Monarch Of Great Britain, But Our American-born Rulers Claim Far More Of Our Wealth Than The British Monarchs Ever Did.

Because The State Can No Longer Protect Us From Crime, It Wants To Take Away From Us The Means Of Protecting Ourselves. This Is The Logic Of Gun Control.