Beware Of The Ides Of Martial

By Kleinheider Posted on April 1, 2009 at 2:12 pm

Republicans want to make sure their guns don’t get snagged by the Fedgov if our little experiment in Democracy starts falling apart:

The sponsor, House Republican caucus chair Glen Casada, explained martial law might be declared “by the governor, president or somebody like that” usually at a time of “invasion or civil unrest.”

“I’m a firm believer that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure,” Casada told the subcommittee. “Obviously, things are bad under martial law, and we’d need our weapons to protect ourselves.”

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