There I was – working out in the early morning, minding my own business and then an atom bomb drops from out of no where: "Montana is thinking about withdrawing from the Union"

Thinking it was God speaking, I take out my headphones and listen a bit closer: "39 elected Montana officials have signed a resolution declaring that a court ruling of the Second Amendment is a right of states and not of individuals would violate Montana's compact."

Ah – it's not God, it’s just some DJ on the Eagle… my breathing returns to its normal heaving. Then, it hits me: Montana is thinking about succeeding from the Union!? This is HUGE!!  I mean – the last time anyone THOUGHT about succeeding was…… well, last week?  Ok – besides the Texas Nationalist Movement, the last time was over a 100 years ago and it DID NOT turn out good (for either side).

After pumping some more iron (read: crying and wining like a little school girl on her first day of gym class), I head over to my posh window line, golden glazed office to check on the validity of Boise's radio DJs.  Sure enough, it looks like Montana has issued a warning to the Supreme Court that if they decided that if the Second Amendment applies ONLY to state militias (read "National Guard") and NOT to the individual, then they are gone like a '49 Cadillac, like all the good things… Sorry, got carried away there…

Back on track, that's me – Mr. No-rabbit-trails-or-anything-off-topic – it seems that the Montana statehood contract specifies gun ownership as an individual right: ie. "the right of any person to keep or bear arms… shall not be called in question".  [as noted in the Washington Times]
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Why I don't think the situation will ever come down to Montana actually succeeding, it does make you stop and think. Is individual gun ownership really a right or is it a privilege? The main differences being that a privilege could be taken away, while a right is permanent (well, until the next revolution).  

In my mind, gun ownership is a right given to each individual person as stated in the Second Amendment. Individual gun ownership is what made the American Revolution possible. Without individual gun ownership, our founding fathers would not have had the chance to create a new nation in the vast land of America.

To remove this right is to take us back to the days of tyranny.

The solution: get ready to move to Montana.