Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.