I sorta/kinda/totally love this bit from Jonah Goldberg:
Similarly, if today's good science says that we could make better citizens if we raised them in more collectivized social arrangements regardless of the wishes of parents, I would say "I don't care." Then I would ensure that I was sufficiently armed to prevent the State from doing as it saw fit with my child.
Can't you just imagine Jonah double-fisting his machine guns and going out in a Scarface-style blaze of glory? This is what I love about the right's infatuation with firearms -- the belief that if you just have a sufficient number of semiautomatics, you can take on the world. It's not whether you are safe -- the military has advanced body armor, and heat-seeking missiles, and tear gas, and night vision, and... -- it's whether you feel safe. Firearms are something of a security blanket for these folks: they don't actually protect you from much, but they sure are comforting to hold.
