Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
As I watched the news, and as the story of flight 93, and it's crash in Pennsylvania, it occurred to me, as it did to many of you, I'm sure, that something went wrong. Phone calls confirmed that people on board were determined to take things into thier own hands, and were going to try to stop the bad designs.
I think it's time that we begin to start trusting. We're going to have to trust each other. The government needs to trust it's people, and the people need to begin to expect and offer trust in each other.
We need to be trusted to defend ourselves, to make efforts to save ourselves, and to use our own judgement in our lives. If only, and those words run cold in my blood, - if only - the good men and/or women on that plane could have defended themselves. 2 citizens, on 2 planes, excercising judicious care, and a constitutional right, could have saved them all. One good and brave soul, armed, and all or most of those dead would not now be. Is this a risk we should take in the future?
Isn't it still true, that government must derive it's powers by the consent of those governed? And for that to be true, must it not trust those people with the power of life and death as well? I can think of no other right so precious, as the right to live, to defend your own life and those of your family, neighbors, friends, countrymen.
Isn't now, the time when real leaders would tell us to turn to our neighbors and friends, and understand that we must take on the responsibility of saving each other? Anti-gun laws have not been demonstrated to solve crime... but I see one horror, one horror I yet cannot grasp because of it's size and breadth... that could have been averted.
Wasn't that - the security of a free state - what the amendment meant? Wasn't it for those times when resonsibility for safety and lives rested upon the people, that Amendment Two came to be? If not then, it was the single most fortelling sentence written in the last 300 years.
In the days that famous document was written... The "Militia" was any citizen who would stand and answer the call to fight for thier friends, neighbors, family, on a volunteer basis. And now we see the most incredible example of that. A story so gripping it has shut down a nation - and because we forgot how to make a FREE state secure - to give power to it's people.
I think it's time that we begin to start trusting. We're going to have to trust each other. The government needs to trust it's people, and the people need to begin to expect and offer trust in each other.
We need to be trusted to defend ourselves, to make efforts to save ourselves, and to use our own judgement in our lives. If only, and those words run cold in my blood, - if only - the good men and/or women on that plane could have defended themselves. 2 citizens, on 2 planes, excercising judicious care, and a constitutional right, could have saved them all. One good and brave soul, armed, and all or most of those dead would not now be. Is this a risk we should take in the future?
Isn't it still true, that government must derive it's powers by the consent of those governed? And for that to be true, must it not trust those people with the power of life and death as well? I can think of no other right so precious, as the right to live, to defend your own life and those of your family, neighbors, friends, countrymen.
Isn't now, the time when real leaders would tell us to turn to our neighbors and friends, and understand that we must take on the responsibility of saving each other? Anti-gun laws have not been demonstrated to solve crime... but I see one horror, one horror I yet cannot grasp because of it's size and breadth... that could have been averted.
Wasn't that - the security of a free state - what the amendment meant? Wasn't it for those times when resonsibility for safety and lives rested upon the people, that Amendment Two came to be? If not then, it was the single most fortelling sentence written in the last 300 years.
In the days that famous document was written... The "Militia" was any citizen who would stand and answer the call to fight for thier friends, neighbors, family, on a volunteer basis. And now we see the most incredible example of that. A story so gripping it has shut down a nation - and because we forgot how to make a FREE state secure - to give power to it's people.
Wonder why??
