The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People. Tench Coxe - 1788. There's a lot more to the history of individual arms ownership and the advancement of human liberty. For example, Hamilton and Madison comment on the importance of the militia in Federalist Papers number 29 and 46 respectively. I take no position on the militias that have formed throughout the country except to note that most seem to have been formed by honest, concerned Americans.
Nothing can ever justify the initiation of force .
Both the tragic bombing in OK City and the government's heinous gassing, burning, and literal bulldozing over of nearly 100 men, women and children at Waco are wrong. Both should be condemned. So should Lon Horiuchi, the FBI sniper who killed Vicki Weaver , shooting her in the face while she was holding her baby in her arms and standing in front of her kids in the doorway of her Ruby Ridge, Idaho cabin. All those responsible should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But none of this is tied to the peaceful, grassroots political movement to restore our Constitutional arms rights.