Guns will protect you from tsunamis.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Hippikos

I thought that was bleeding obvious, unless you have a large canon in front of your head.

While my Webster's Third does give canon as a variant spelling of "cannon," I'd advise against such use, as this spelling calls up for most people "One of the clergy of a medieval cathedral or large church living as a community under a rule" or "A clergyman belonging to the chapter or the staff of a cathedral or collegiate church." No doubt wearing an Army serplice...

And the precedent set by the acknowledgement (it isn't a granting -- read the text and you'll see that the right to keep and bear arms inheres in one's condition as a human being is assumed) that free humans should have killing tools at their private disposal, that private persons should be equipped comparably to the best armies of the time, is a very strong one.

It's all the stronger in that this is the one known remedy to genocides; the state is no bulwark against this kind of mass crime as it takes the state to enable it -- one state may punish another for having done it, but that's too late to prevent it or cure it. No state has successfully impeded a genocide in another state.

If you oppose death penalties, presumably by deeming them too likely to be wrongful, you'd oppose death as a penalty for being in an unpopular group, too. Thereby, you'd be interested in the known means of preventing that.