The Second Amendment Reveals A Profound Principle

Since When Have We Americans Been Expected To Bow Submissively To Authority And Speak With Awe And Reverence To Those Who Represent Us?

Only When There Is A Wilderness Can Man Harmonize His Inner Being With The Wavelengths Of The Earth. When The Earth, Its Products, Its Creatures, Become His Concern, Man Is Caught Up In A Cause Greater Than His Own Life And More Meaningful. Only When Man Loses Himself In An Endeavor Of That Magnitude Does He Walk And Live With Humanity And Reverence.

The Struggle Is Always Between The Individual And His Sacred Right To Express Himself And The Power Structure That Seeks Conformity, Suppression, And Obedience.

This Freedom Of Movement Is The Very Essence Of Our Free Society, Setting Us Apart. Like The Right Of Assembly And The Right Of Association, It Often Makes All Other Rights Meaningful-knowing, Studying, Arguing, Exploring, Conversing, Observing And Even Thinking. Once The Right To Travel Is Curtailed, All Other Rights Suffer, Just As When Curfew Or Home Detention Is Placed On A Person.

Hiking A Ridge, A Meadow, Or A River Bottom, Is As Healthy A Form Of Exercise As One Can Get. Hiking Seems To Put All The Body Cells Back Into Rhythm. Ten To Twenty Miles On A Trail Puts One To Bed With His Cares Unraveled.