guns and butter on our founding documents

Today's Guns and Butter broadcast... and you can read it at the link in my sidebar.
[BTW, I violently disagree with Michael Ratner on the right to bear arms, even as I respect his work on behalf of Gitmo and Abu Ghraib detainees. He's got a very slick little set piece on the issue that he articulates here, but stays all the way away from the brute fact that the provision is there for citizens -- individually and/or severally -- to take up arms against tyranny... irrespective of their chances to prevail. He blows air about how hand guns won't stop the government from hauling us off if they want to, and he's right. They will impose constraints on it nonetheless and who says we have no right to more effective arms? "Arms" does not just mean "guns". He, and all his gun control compatriots, also ignore utterly that making a much more equitable society would do exponentially more to end gun violence than any law abridging our right to own them. It seems to me that enough has transpired in this administration to wipe out all objections to citizens bearing arms. But no.]