So, am I saying young people ought to smoke when we know the likely terrible health and economic consequences in advance? No. I’m saying if a citizen is old enough to die fighting for his country, he’s old enough to make life decisions. I’m saying power-motivated rule unbound by restraints has always been the greatest author of human misery and death. Always. I'm saying every loosening of Constitutional chains moves our government closer to the tyranny foreseen by the Framers when they ratified the Second Amendment. [More]
Can there be anything more insidious than "For the children"? If we continue to allow the government to put restraints on us rather than accept the ones the Constitution puts on it, recognition of our rights will go up in smoke.
