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When people in Washington start creating fancy new phrases, instead of using plain English, you know they are doing something they don’t want us to understand.

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.

I was once asked by a citizen disarmament advocate, a follower of the Bradys, what I thought about more firearm restrictions. I began to answer when he impatiently broke in, Give me the short answer. I replied, Okay. . . If you try to take our firearms we will kill you. All the fellow could do was stare at me in disbelief. This is the restated meaning of shall not be infringed. Some people, however, have to have it translated for them. Believe me, the NRA is the least of the citizen disarmament advocates’ problems. Our God-given, natural and inalienable rights are not subject to modification by law or negotiation. Do not extrapolate from your own cowardice and believe that if you are lucky enough to game a corrupt political system and get what you want legislatively, that we, like you, would not resist federal tyranny. We will fight, even though it means our deaths. This is an alien concept to most collectivists but it is nonetheless true. Pass another law — any law — that further restricts our free access to arms and you’ll have a civil war on your hands in short order. You would have to stack up millions of our bodies to achieve your stated purpose and we would not go quietly without making that trade more than a one-to-one ratio. This seems an odd way to secure public safety. So, you have to ask yourselves, in light of the iron-clad Law of Unintended Consequences, is it worth it? If you’re smart, you’ll say no and back the hell up out of our faces and get your nanny state out of spitting distance of our liberty and property before there is… trouble.

All government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.