The First Right

The right to keep and bear arms is the first right.  Its existence and exercise is what protects all other rights that individuals have.  History demonstrates that wherever rights were denied, they were attained invariably through, first, the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms.  History also teaches the fact that the right to keep and bear arms is the first target for suppression by governments and individuals who fear their fellow citizens--either irrationally (hoplophobia), or rationally because their fellow citizens will oppose further planned oppression and tyranny.