We still have some tidbit remnants of the US Constitution left that allows use to excercise a tiny bit of our right to keep and bear arms, but the government technically has no business demanding dive stores disclose who is interested in rebreathers. The government is utterly incapable of protecting us, yet they try to deny us our rights to do the very thing they can't.
Funny how my rights to be free from unreasonable searches and siezures has been removed at the airport amongst other places, yet I don't feel nor am any safer. Now they are searching little Caucaisan childen and shoes. If Al Qaeda wanted to get explosives on board, they will just get a Muslim fag to stuf Semtex up his cavernous rectum, so until such time they do body cavity searches, removing shoes is a waste of time and an infringment upon my liberty.
"Anyone willing to give up essential liberty for little temporary peace and security is worthy of neither"-Benjamin Franklin
As civil ruler, not having their duty to the peple duly before them, may attempt to tyrranize, and as the military forces which must be occassionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear arms.
-Tench Coxe
Among the many misdeads of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act of depriving the whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
-Mohandas Gandi
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who allowed their subjects to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
-Adolf Hitler
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.-Thomas Jefferson
"THE great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun". (Patrick Henry, 3 Elliot, Debates at 386.)
"AMERICANS have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms". (James Madison, The Federalist Papers, #46, at 243-244.)
"FIREARMS stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence...From the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security, and happi- ness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable...The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference--they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."-George Washington