If the average person today wonders about his relationship to his government, the Second Amendment provides ample guidance. It representsthe ideal of American political and social life: the individual,self-governing, self-motivated, self-respecting, dignified, free citizen -who takes these virtues so seriously that he will maintain the personalpower to back them up.

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The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !