Responding to Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind - pt. 1

Pp. 164-165 - All men seek that particular form of government which will best serve this primary need for survival. The problem is that it used to be that man had to do this on a relatively small scale, if not alone. This would naturally lead to, in today's technology, some sort of ability to protect one's inherent right to life - i.e. right to keep and bear arms.

Now, however, we have become convinced that it is the government, and not ourselves, who must protect us and we have willingly surrendered ourselves to them and in turn, they have trampled us underfoot, as they have long abandoned those foundational principles and rights which set the course of sail for the Unites States so long ago.