Non-Americans In The 2A Debate

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most people have no idea just how serious a situation can turn in a heartbeat.

Aleksandr I. 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? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

This is exactly what I keep reminding people of every chance I get.

If you are going to die any way, why not go out fighting, and under your own control.

You sure have a better chance of survival, even if that chance is small, if you fight back, than just lying there crapping in your undies.