Excerpt from Forbes.com:
The minutemen understood something lost on most Americans today, that disarming the people is always the necessary precursor to tyranny. When the British disembarked to seize the Colonists’ stores of powder and ammunition, the militia resisted. Americans in 1775 wanted government to leave them be. Many Americans today want the state to care for us.
The Colonists had been possibly the freest people on earth. Taxes were low and regulations rare. Prosperity flourished. The Colonists enjoyed freedom of speech, press, assembly and the right to petition the crown over their grievances. Their grievances were real and their cause just, but these freedoms would have proved fleeting had they not been enforced by arms.
The founders later codified these long standing liberties in the Second Amendment, which guarantees the right of a militia in defiance of tyranny.
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Our rights come from God, not a state which derives its only legitimacy from the consent of the governed. America was premised on popular sovereignty, not state subjugation, but as Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America illustrates, “. . . a sovereign without the ability (and willingness) to use force is not a sovereign. He is a subject.”
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