I’m about as fed up as I can get with this whole gun control issue. The progressives do not understand the issues, period, nor do they care. This is going to piss off some people, and I don’t care. I don’t believe the majority of voters could pass a basic Civics test, so they shouldn’t be allowed to vote until they can. I mean everyone who is allowed to vote. All sides.
…Gun control proponents in the media and in Washington have capitalized on two noteworthy national conditions during the past month: first, the utter apathy of many moderate conservatives, centrists, and even the occasional open-minded liberal, as well as the enormous pool of individuals who simply don’t care about anything other than celebrities, reality television, and video games; and second, the fact that millions of adults in the increasingly suburban and urban American population don’t know anything about guns. This dangerous combination of apathy and ignorance allows politicians and journalists to get away with intellectually dishonest arguments, to repeatedly parrot inflammatory slogans such as “assault weapon,” and to peddle outright lies that stoke the flames of mass hysteria…
You can choose to have a gun, fine with me. You can choose not to have a gun, fine with me. I don’t really care, your choice. I’m not one to force anything on anyone, but I can tell you one thing for certain, too much government is a bad thing. History repeats itself, and, as before, this country is being eaten from within. We’ve had Revolutions to prove it.
As far as I’m concerned, I would rather have a gun and not need it, than need one and not have it.
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Amendment the second:
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Personally, I refuse to relinquish my Constitutionally protected human right to ANYONE. Period.
Agreed.
We’ve got some bumps in the road ahead.
And I don’t mean to be so short about the topic Yabs. Yes, we do have a bumpy road ahead. Yes, there is a lot to talk about and a lot to write about concerning guns and the direction of our republic. I am just tired of having that discussion with blind drones, when in fact, there is no discussion to be had. The Constitution does not tell the people what they may not do, it tells the GOVERNMENT what it may not do. That is the extent to which I am willing to discuss; to educate those woefully ignorant of the purpose of our founding charter.
Not up for discussion are my human rights, provided by my creator and guaranteed by my Constitution. Not now, not ever. If I die on that hill, so be it; I will happily die a free man. If I must be jailed, I will be a dissident, but the time for a so-called “discussion” is over. At least for me it is.
This “discussion” is just the Issue Dujour. It will not be solved or resolved any faster than the host of other civil issues around which both sides get wrapped around the axle. I won’t work myself into a frothing frenzy, partly because I refuse to engage in a fruitless exercise, and because I know that the general ineptitude of the gubmint’s minions and their ilk ensures adequate reaction time if required.
My concern is, “What is the other hand doing?” While this “hand” is teasing the dog — getting it (gun control) worked up, yowling, barking, jumping and snapping as we all watch with rapt attention, what are we missing because we are being distracted? What is the other hand doing?
Maybe my tinfoil hat is on too tightly, but my spidey senses are tingling…
EXACTLY!!!
Seems to me using an ‘assault” on the 2nd Amendment makes people blind to other assaults.
Like a diversion. I have a bad feeling about this.
What is the other hand doing? Indeed. I sort of feel like the wool is being pulled over my eves.
The other hand is, as always, reaching around to snatch our wallets, or, failing that, stretching, think that guy in “the Matrix”, to rectally rape us all the way up to his elbow, where he’ll pull out our hearts and souls, if we let him.
Other hand, indeed. Set watch to oversee the full 360, always.
And yes, the bastards always have a 2nd or 3rd play in motion. It’s what they do.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX