In a January 19 post on National Review Online, Daniel Foster attempted to defend former Nevada Senate Candidate Sharron Angle's famous “Second Amendment remedies” line by saying she was only warning that “we're a few awful bills away from folks starting to seriously consider revolution. From the National Review Online:

I didn't think Angle was an ideal candidate, but I think it's clear from context that what she was saying was more along the lines of ”Winning this election is important because things are so bad we're a few awful bills away from folks starting to seriously consider revolution."

One thing she was certainly not saying is that the Second Amendment legitimizes political assassinations. If only it were obvious to liberals that conservatives would not endorse, even in principle, the right of a John Wilkes Booth to afford himself of “Second Amendment remedy.”