From “We, The People” to our elected representatives:
The Right To Keep and Bear Arms is, like the rights to due process, petition, and assembly, a safeguard to protect the citizens of the United States from possible excesses and abuses of power by their government. At its root is the idea that we, the people, the militia, if armed with military-equivalent guns, could never be compelled by our government to bow to grossly illegal or immoral laws.
Sadly, world history records the frequent and egregiously tyrannical regimes which have followed the disarmament of once free people.
Our right to arms is an essential component of our grand experiment, and we, the undersigned, see no rational reason to discard or infringe upon it any further now.