At the fall of the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact nations also had a wave of liberation. In Romania, Ceausescu was shot by a firing squad. There were news photos of the general events, and one in particular stuck in my mind. I wish to heaven it were possible to find. It was a scene of workers in a newspaper printing shop, laying up the first freely-printed newspaper---all of them with AK-47 rifles slung across their backs. To prevent anyone interfering with free expression! A more perfect fusion of the meaning of the 1st and 2nd Amendments I cannot bring to mind.

Now, upon thinking on that, I am wondering if it is wrong to insist that crowds drawn together for freedom of speech should be denied the carriage of arms.