Henley's "canary in the coal mine" argument is completely theological -- he starts with the premise that gun ownership is a vital freedom and then tries to figure out *why*.
Near as I can tell, gun rights are not a canary -- they're a parrot. A thouroughly dead parrot, nailed securely to its perch:
1. Check the circumstances in which it is legal to *use* a gun. In many places, the concept of "self-defense" seems to no longer exist.
2. With the cheerful illusion of "RKBA", the gun nuts don't know or care about the erosion of other rights. Ashcraft is pro-gun, therefore he's pro-freedom; anybody who says oherwise is some kind of a dope.
I think that a much more useful "canary" would be tolerance for dissent.
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