Well, technically speaking if there isn't anyone signed up with BDUs and a rifle in hand, then your liberty would be in peril. I mean, if the US government and her lands were just up for whoever wanted to call dibs, I'd take it.
That said, it stands to reason that the reason why your liberty isn't imminently in peril is because someone is already signed up and out there defending it.
To restate everything in broad terms: there's lots of people out in the world that don't like us. Your liberty is always in peril.
Do you want a totally anarchistic society, perhaps? I, for one, don't.
You make it sound like America doesn't have a large, well-off and well armed populace, with the backing of heavy industrial plants that can tool up for war.
I'm not saying America should have no armed forces, of course, but don't you think they're a little excessive?
No, it's not. It's advocating what the founders originally intended, which was a well-armed militia that obviates the need for an Army. In time of war (on American soil) they would organize like an army to fight off invaders. They did advocate for a Navy, however, because it was (and I suppose still is) necessary for the establishment of free trade routes between nations.
I am former military, as an aside, and once found the notion of not having an Army pretty silly, but the notion has grown on me slightly.
That said, it stands to reason that the reason why your liberty isn't imminently in peril is because someone is already signed up and out there defending it.
To restate everything in broad terms: there's lots of people out in the world that don't like us. Your liberty is always in peril.
Do you want a totally anarchistic society, perhaps? I, for one, don't.