“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them…” – Richard Henery Lee, 1788, Initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights.) [Walter Bennett, ed., Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican, pp. 21,22,124 (University of Alabama Press, 1975)