Illegitimate Government

Charles Cooke writes Against Gun Registration

"As things stand, the Firearm Owners Protection Act mandates the federal
government to destroy within 24 hours any information that it gathers
during background checks; all who are jealous of their liberty must
ensure that this remains law."

We witness a government that routinely, publicly, defies the laws intending to order, regulate and restrain it: the President makes "recess appointments" when the Senate isn't in recess. Congress blatantly ignores the law requiring it to pass an annual budget for three years and counting. The President blatantly ignores our immigration laws and the War Powers act. Government spending is largely an exercise in cronyism, taxing from the unfavored and doling out money to the favored.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me a hundred times, shame on me. It isn't a matter of unfounded paranoia to believe that the government can no longer be trusted to obey even the simplest laws intended to restrain it, so we as a people have no incentive to cede any portion of our rights or any sliver of a penny. The government no longer has legitimacy, because it has so egregiously violated its covenant with the citizenry in so many ways.