Sarin or “nerve gas” means instant death. A single drop on the skin can kill anyone. Sarin eats right through chemical weapons protective gear within a few hours and gas masks won’t protect against it for much longer than an hour.

There is good reason to worry about any government possessing such a weapon.

Governments cannot be trusted with having a monopoly on deadly weapons.

This situation underlines the problem of government ownership of dangerous weapons. Governments cannot be trusted to not use genocidal weapons against their own citizens, as we have seen in America, Iraq, and elsewhere.

In America, our founders wanted the citizens to possess weapons, not the government.

As stated in the 2nd Amendment, the founders made it absolutely clear that armed citizens were to be the final protection against government tyranny. And their reason was that freedom for citizens was more important than the continued existence of the state.

If the people of Syria had been as fully armed as citizens are in Switzerland, the idea that a government needed chemical weapons would not exist – armed citizens would be the final deterrent against invasion.

When all dangerous weapons are controlled by a few people at the very top of an organization, then everyone’s life is at the mercy of those few, however insane they may be. Decentralization of weapons ownership actually protects citizens far better than monopoly control of weapons by a few elite.

Self-defense is a “do-it-yourself” project that places responsibility for national security back onto the citizens, where it belongs.