The right to buy weapons is the right to be free. – A.E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher” The presence of a single, non-violent citizen openly carrying a firearm is sufficient to cause panic in people habituated to the evil idea that only state functionaries should be armed. So acutely alarmed  do such people become that their first reaction is to call the police, thereby inviting the intervention of additional armed strangers who – owing to the indoctrination they’ve received, and the “qualified immunity” they enjoy – are immeasurably more dangerous than the first. The actual presence of armed citizens … Continue reading Worried About a Government Firearms Monopoly?