The denial of the right to bear arms is a denial of our humanity .......

An equally valid way to look at this is to notice that the tyrant who stands between men and the rights with which they are endowed actually stands between them and their humanity: for what are those rights except an expression of their humanity? This means that when King George III stationed his soldiers in the colonists’ homes and forced the colonists to use their fodder for the king’s horses, he denied the colonists the right to possess their own things and to do with those things as they saw fit.