Are you willing to give your life fighting for American Democracy?

[AntiFascist]

63. I'm sure the Far Right has their own ideas about prioritizing self-defense, however....

In the 1830's, Madison wrote: "A Government resting on a
minority, is an aristocracy not a Republic, and could not be safe with a
numerical (and) physical force against it, without a standing Army, and
enslaved press, and a DISARMED populace." 37
...
Webster was certainly in a position to know what the second amendment
phrase "bear arms" meant. A prominent federalist, he wrote the first major
pamphlet in support of the Constitution when it was proposed in 1787, in
which he stated: "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be
disarmed; as they are in almost every Kingdom in Europe. The supreme
power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole
body of the people are armed ..... 50

https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3830&context=lcp#:~:text=That%20to%20%22bear%22%20arms%20means,amendment%2C%20in%20the%20Virginia%20legislature.