I don't believe taking power from the police and giving power to a group like Blackwater would help. Blackwater has its place and that place is on foreign soil. For you to consider the government hiring a group of soldiers for hire and asking them to control a large city is unbelievable. You talk about the citizens turning on police; what do you think would happen if a group of untrained (for police purposes) men with assault weapons started killing U.S. citizens to enforce "local containment"? Here in the U.S., local security forces are the police.

This developing situation is but one reason why the Second Amendment could be a key element in the future survival of the United States.

The author talks about local security forces, locally recruited. This is the militia of 2A. The building block, however, is the individual who is armed as a matter of his inalienable right to effective self defense. This inalienable, moral right is what 2A is all about, as well as the law and philosophy from which it desceded.

The Clintons and Baracks are eager to abridge 2A, along with others who think it will make them safer. They will feel safer, perhaps, but "feeling" and "being" are different things. Just ask the dead at Virgina Tech.