Sinij, the right to be armed *is* a core principle.

It is *the* most important right, because without armed force willing to protect them - we have no other rights.

People decided not to revolt when the 4th amendment rights were taken away, now we have no 4th amendment rights for example.

The regime has no morals. The regime cares not about you, or me, or anything but power and prestige and money. Gun control is not about, and has never been about creating a better society. Gun control started, back when the NRA supported it - as a measure to disarm Negroes. Yeah, those uppity blacks decided now that they ostensibly had right - that they should exercise them, some groups did so publicly. Well, Jim Crow didnt much care for that and thus the modern gun control movement was borne.

The new proposed gun registration database is a prime example.

Please tell me how registering legal gun owners is a crime deterrent. Perhaps the suicide gunman wont perpetrate a crime, because they are afraid the police might catch them eh? I mean, just imagine if the Sandy Hook shooter had been confronted with a Govt Database. He would have stolen someone elses gun, killed them, then gone on his rampage, then shot himself.

Registering legal gun owners is just a form of intimidation, which will lead to harassment, and ultimately give the goons a good place to start when it comes time to formally disarm the populace.

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As Founding Father Tench Coxe said, while attempting to allay the fears of critics of the proposed Constitution:

The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom?

Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American… [T]he 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, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
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For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)