Outdated Self-Defense?

Bud Fox: It's called pasta now, Dad. Spaghetti is out of date.
Carl Fox: Yeah? Well, so am I.
--Wall Street

Piggybacking on this recent Washington Post editorial, this article dispels the laughable notion that the right to bear arms is no longer relevant as put forth by the framers. Since the Constitution was ratified, there have been myriad marquee examples of private violence and public tyranny.

Slavery, Jim Crow, racial violence, wartime concentration camps, Indian removals, land confiscation, wars. While they could not possibly foresee their specific form, the framers well understood that threats to person and property would be inevitable, and that those state-of-the-art threats would require state-of-the-art self defense.

It can't happen here, they say.

Nonsense. It has and it will.