It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

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.

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.