Amen

“A Rifleman’s Prayer

Oh Lord, I would live my life in freedom, peace and happiness, enjoying the simple pleasures of hearth and home. I would die an old, old man in my own bed, preferably of sexual overexertion.

But if that is not to be, Lord, if monsters such as this should find their way to my little corner of the world on my watch, then help me to sweep those bastards from the ramparts, because doing that is good, and right, and just.

And if in this I should fall, let me be found atop a pile of brass, behind the wall I made of their corpses.”

This prayer was written by A Geek with a .45. While visiting Hungary, he came face to face with the results of tyranny. The prayer was a result of this experience. Go read his post.

The 2nd Amendment is useless without the will of the citizenry to enforce their rights. ONLY the citizenry can ensure that their rights are not violated. NO other agency can be relied upon.

From the Geek's post, here are some partial quotes by Solzhenitsyn:

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?......."

and Judge Kozinski:

"The majority falls prey to the delusion—popular in some circles - that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth - born of experience - is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people. All too many of the other great tragedies of history - Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few - were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars...."

Why are we so confused about the purpose of the 2nd Amendment?

Because we do not teach our children about evil. We have had the luxury of freedom since this continent was colonized. We do not teach our children about philosophies inimical to our way of life. We have a duty to recognize evil, and end it. We, the people, must ensure our freedoms. No one else can do it.

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

h/t Cowboy Blob