I care and I wake early because of... we all carry

Of all the things to wake in the middle of the night about - is that 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. You know, the one that the current Federal Government infringes upon regularly with regulations and law enforcement. I had best write my Congressman, Adam Smith, and my state representatives (and no, I don't know who won those offices - I am a self-centered political slacker and they couldn't be important could they? - were they in the news?).

I go to bed and I wake up in the night because I am carrying the Nation and thereby the World upon my shoulders. I have to bailout rich bankers, automobile manufacturers, and helpless old people, young people, dysfunctional people and elected officials that stray for sex, power and money. They are all part of the burden I have on my shoulders. Sigh, and I can't sleep knowing they must have my attention and care, and I must carry that for the remainder of my life. I get told that the current economic crisis is my fault for failing to borrow more and spend like the young fool I grew out of...

The Second Amendment says that a well-regulated militia is important for the security of a free state -- and there aren't enough rifles for every militia member, and there should be. The local government of the Colony of Massachusetts bought and stored muskets for those that couldn't provide their own, in the 1770's. What happened to that? Every little county subdivision should have an armory for the people's arms and ammunition. Somehow I am certain the current government of Massachusetts is failing to carry on its traditional role as a supporter of freemen.

So, Congressman Adam Smith, I want the government to assure public ranges, with known distance targets to six hundred yards, or if you must - six hundred meters. I want at least one per Congressional district - enough firing points for the number of citizens bearing arms for quarterly qualifications. I want the government to issue each militia member a thousand rounds of ball ammunition per year, to be fired and replaced in units of two hundred and fifty rounds in the quarterly practice and qualification. I want the public education system to teach firearms safety in elementary , rifle marksmanship and civic responsibility in middle school along with driver's training and sex education (although what some folks call sex education is certainly not in my definition of human reproduction systems).

I also want all those laws that infringe upon the people's right to keep and bear arms repealed. Now is already too late, but tomorrow is a good day to start. We can get this right and I can go back to sleep knowing that there is a government program that I can support, only participate in quarterly, and is doing something for the majority of law abiding good citizens - that are carrying the burden of the Nation and the World, we can all sleep better at night knowing we can read and follow the basic instructions in English of our Constitution.