Thoughts on Guns

 It was Sam Colt, inventor of the first handheld gun that could be fired rapidly without needing to be reloaded after every shot, who may have first called a gun an equalizer. He did this in the early 1800s.

Ronald Reagan, writing for the September 1975 issue of Guns and Ammo, said: "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It ensures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed. ... I believe that the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms must not be infringed if liberty in America is to survive."

This is why the Republican minority in this country wants to keep their assault rifles. Because if they lose an election, even though they've gone to extraordinary lengths to keep Democrats from voting or from seeing their votes count as much as Republicans do, they can equalize their power with their guns. The Second Amendment guarantees minority rule and must stand if liberty is to survive.

But for liberty to survive that way, democracy must die. Unless, of course, Democrats acquire as many guns as Republicans.