It's interesting that more people will fight for the 1st Amend and not the 2nd.
If and/or when the flag ever drops, the "sword" will most assuredly devour the "pen".
Or maybe because guns in the hands of peasants are a threat to the structured powerbase that greedy men and women have propagated for themselves for TOO long...
As Hillary said it the other day during the electoral vote ratification. She mentioned these words at one point during her speech "...the consent of the governed"...
What does she know about the governed and their consent
Now I'm really going off-track. Sorry Andy.
I mentioned in a thread back in Fall that while on an overnite trip to Chesapeake City in Maryland we crossed the not very well marked state line and still had my 1911 loaded and on my person. After realizing where we were, I felt like I did something wrong (ashamed) and then I got pissed. Both at myself for being made to feel like a criminal and the State of Maryland for being backward. Substitute other descriptive words there as you like...
Allen