I think protection from a foreign source is paramount in the consideration of our military strength, including firepower. Free elections provide the safety valve.

Happening now is the so-called second-amendment-"militia" backing the potentially tyrannical government our founders worried about, a double whammy from strong-man Trump and the NRA.

Couple this with Russian influence helping to keep Trump in office, there goes our Democracy with small chance of a successful rebellion, in spite of the bullet-blunting articulation of those students yesterday and last night.