Well said, Mr. Chapin. To continue off on a tangent of reason succumbing to emotion, consequently the body politic will destabilize to the point of chaos, unruliness, and violence. It is by means of reason that a civilized people define and maintain their peaceful boundaries amongst each other. Maintaining these boundaries is human instinct, both intellectually and viscerally, as well as constitutionally recognized and sanctified. Stripped of reasonable means of interaction and coexistence to maintain their innate individual boundaries Americans might well constitutionally resort to their “right to bear arms” to do so. Such action would of course be a defensive reaction, not aggression. It would not be for the pursuit of domination, but merely for the right to be left alone in an unviolated boundary.
History is often not linear and predictable. If an amazing president like Ronald Reagan was almost assassinated in 1981 when he began to apply the strong medicine of recession to realign debt and equity in America, while calling the morally and financially bankrupt bluff of the USSR, I certainly don’t envy the era that the next president will face.
