Why Do You Need a Gun?

“Self defense,” Locke wrote in his Two Treatises of Government, “is a part of the law of nature” and in consequence cannot be “denied the community, even against the king himself.” In Locke’s view, this principle could be applied both on an individual level — against, say, intruders and other attackers — and on a collective level, against governments that turn tyrannical. [More]

Too bad he's not alive today. CIGV could call him an "insurrectionist," Prozis could call him an "ammosexual," and The New York Daily News could label him "Jihadi John."

[Via Michael G]