The Function Of Government Is To Provide

Government Can Only Do Two Things: It Can Beat People Up And Kill Them. Or It Can Threaten To Do So. When It Seems To Be Doing Something Else - For Example, Handing Out Money Or, Say, Surplus Cheese - What's Actually Going On Is That Something Has Been Taken Away From One Set Of Individuals By Deadly Force Or The Threat Of Deadly Force, A Hefty Middleman's Fee Deducted, And Whatever Is Left Thrown To Peasants Delighted To Receive Stolen Goods.

Most Libertarians Agree That All Rights Are, In Effect, Property Rights, Beginning With This Fundamental Right To Self-ownership And Control Of One's Own Life. As Owners Of Their Own Lives, Individuals Are Completely Free To Do Absolutely Anything They Wish With Them Provided, Of Course, That It Doesn't Violate The Identical Right Of Others Whether The People Around Them Approve Of What They Do Or Not.

The Freedom To Own And Carry The Weapon Of Your Choice Is A Natural, Fundamental, And Inalienable Human, Individual, Civil, And Constitutional Right - Subject Neither To The Democratic Process Nor To Arguments Grounded In Social Utility.

We Are Expected To Believe That Anyone Who Objects To The Department Of Homeland Security Or The Usa Patriot Act Is A Terrorist, And That The Only Way To Preserve Our Freedom Is To Hand It Over To The Government For Safekeeping.

It Is Individuals Who Must Be Encouraged To Undertake The Unprecedented - And Unprecedentedly Profitable - Effort To Prevent The Annihilation Of The Human Race.