By Chris Basten

  The most devoted conservatives will say just about anything to make their actions sound just and moral. Observe what Rabbi Daniel Lapin said recently in a WorldNetDaily article:

2004 arrived safely, whispering how successfully the Bush administration has waged our war on terror. Although those who hate us intended us harm, Providence, along with our government's vigilance and pre-emptive actions, prevented all holiday season attacks.

There it is: "Our government's vigilance and preemptive actions" protected us on New Year's Eve. Never mind that the government was useless on 9/11 but praise all of the guns and federal agents for guarding Dick Clark and the masses during the birth of 2004. What would we have done without them?

We probably would have gotten through the celebrations fine without snipers on rooftops and bomb-sniffing dogs or whatever they use during these events. We really didn't increase security all that much for massive city celebrations after the Oklahoma City bombings and we got through them in one piece, didn't we? But all of the sudden our government is to be thanked for protecting us like they did on 9/11 and just like they are doing for Iraqi citizens as we speak. Soldiers are getting ambushed and killed every day in Iraq. What makes us think that federal agents, loaded with all sorts of firepower, can protect us on our own soil when federal patrols can't even protect themselves elsewhere in the world?

If all of the manpower in the CIA can't diagnose or protect us from bombings in Oklahoma City, New York City, and Washington, what keeps all of the security departments and government guns in place? Terrorism is an overused excuse to keep all of us in the government's sites like deer on opening day of the hunting season. In short, the government fears us more than it fears terrorism any day. A lot of us know that the government is full of it and the government knows that a good portion of us don't trust it. The government will go to great lengths to protect itself but will distract us from this objective by advertising how much it is securing our safety.

There isn't much evidence to support the fact that the State cares one iota about our well-being. If it was interested in having us protect ourselves from all foreign invaders (including federal agents trespassing without warrants), we would not be so discouraged from carrying firearms. The government says that you are incompetent and shouldn't be allowed to protect yourself. Hey, that's what your friendly police forces and baton-wielding, tear-gas throwing, gun-pointing feds are for, right? They raid our homes for possessing ground up plants that they don't approve of, remove our children from our custody on mere suspicions of neglect or abuse, and stick guns to our heads to tell us that our possession of guns is why the world is so dangerous.

Ask yourself if you would run your own business this way. Would you continue to pay a security company to protect your investments and property if it failed to act on threats way before an incident occurred? Would you continue to invest in an agency that insists on raiding your own space to protect you from yourself? Would you solicit the services of a company that imposes its force into every aspect of your life so that it can "take care of you?" Would you persist in allowing a security company to regulate and tell you what you can and can't do with your own business, your own property, and your own life? Would you allow a security company to stick guns in your face and demand more of your earnings because the agency refuses to spend your money wisely? No? So why do we commence with our federal tithing and continue to vote for a dictatorship that takes more and more away from us for "our own good?"

If our livelihoods truly belong to us, we should be able to protect what is rightfully ours from all wrongdoers, especially a totalitarian-leaning government:

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
                                                    Thomas Jefferson

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a tyrannous government and it is taking away our rights inch-by-inch every day. If you are among those who think guns are the root of all evil, consider this quote for final reflection:

The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types of arms. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.
                         Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Shogun, August 1588

Your earnings, your property, your business, your drugs, your booze, your sex life, your family, and everything else that is rightfully yours needs protection from what the government wants to take away. As long as you do not physically harm another's person or property, the government has no right to take away your guns to protect your person or property. Governments are threatening menaces to begin with. If they are the only ones left holding the guns, life will be anything but roses.