We are no more likely to be robed of our freedom by jack booted thugs from the "government" above us than by joe booted thugs from the neighborhoods that surround us.

 The way people conveniently love to use the Nazis as the paradigm for how things always go to hell in a hand basket, makes it seem that they were alien invaders--to the contrary, they arose out of and from the German citizenry. Similarly Pol Pot, Chairman Mao and Lenin didn't come from organized government--they overthrew governments. Despotism has arisen from all sectors of society. Don't forget that as we embrace all the law abiding gun owners of the NRA.

Loren M. Lambert © January 17, 2013