News spreads fear.
People buy guns.
People are afraid.
People vote to put party in power that cuts social services responsible for taking care of the mentally ill.
Now you have a lot of mentally ill people with guns that are afraid in the streets
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings, said: "The British are not coming. ... We don't need all these guns to kill people." Lewis' vision, shared by many, represents a gross ignorance of why the framers of the Constitution gave us the Second Amendment. How about a few quotes from the period and you decide whether our Founding Fathers harbored a fear of foreign tyrants.
Alexander Hamilton: "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed," adding later, "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is...
People buy guns.
Government scared of people.
Freedom retained.