Even a fool as great as I knows better than to get involved in friction among people he admires and who, in his opinion, create one of the brightest quarters of libertarian thought on the internet.

But I will comment on a side issue.

A  court made a despicably statist ruling.  Apparently, a raft of email to one of our friends called it a casus belli, real belli. Storm the American Bastille. Blow stuff up.

Frustration followed.

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Look, if we shouldered our bugout bags, strapped on the custom Baers, and loaded our rifles every time some f-cked-up decision came down from the courts or the congress or the White House, the United States of America would, in short order, find itself a New-World Somalia. Blow-flies on skinny corpses. Swap you an hour with my sister for a pint of figs.

The temptation to go gunning for statists, especially the Checka.  is understandable. But we are a greater people because because we find it in ourselves to take a long breath and use the greater weapons  -- discourse, reason, aggressive political  action, satire, outright ridicule, and even the flawed system itself. Yes, it's slow and uncertain. But also yes, it keeps a lot of four-year-olds from getting shot down in the crossfire between loyalist forces and a hundred thousand rebels whose thought processes begin and end with SHTF movies.