You can pry it from my cold dead hands

The restrictions on guns getting tighter, taxes on ammunition are sky-rocketing and so many in government are trying to strip us of our right to bear arms. Do we realize how important this right is? It was important enough to be #2! Why is it number two? Because without being able to bear arms we will not be able to defend the other rights we have. Jefferson made it clear when he said:

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

and

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. -Thomas Jefferson

Similarly, in a released Senate report on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms,

Senator Orrin G. Hatch, chairman, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, states: They argue that the Second Amendment's words "right of the people" mean "a right of the state" — apparently overlooking the impact of those same words when used in the First and Fourth Amendments. The "right of the people" to assemble or to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures is not contested as an individual guarantee. Still they ignore consistency and claim that the right to "bear arms" relates only to military uses. This not only violates a consistent constitutional reading of "right of the people" but also ignores that the second amendment protects a right to "keep" arms. "When our ancestors forged a land "conceived in liberty", they did so with musket and rifle. When they reacted to attempts to dissolve their free institutions, and established their identity as a free nation, they did so as a nation of armed freemen. When they sought to record forever a guarantee of their rights, they devoted one full amendment out of ten to nothing but the protection of their right to keep and bear arms against governmental interference. Under my chairmanship the Subcommittee on the Constitution will concern itself with a proper recognition of, and respect for, this right most valued by free men."

As the argument rages on about definitions and the true intent of the second amendment; the reality remains that without a way to defend ourselves we will be robed not in the dead of night but in the light of day right in front of our faces and we will only be able to stand and watch as our rights and freedoms are stripped from us.