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Quote by: Milton Bradley  What can I tell you, I, and the Framers of the Constitution disagree. Not only that, but each State then ratified that same document, implying that they too agreed upon the conditions set therein.
Sorry, but many of us feel that the right to protect ourselves in absense of "officials" hired to protect us, is a right more precious than appeasing certain individuals who seem to suffer from some irrational fear complex.
I'm also sorry if you take that as an personal insult, because I just can't articulate it any other way. You seem to be scared of guns, or, like I contested before, you are engaging in some agenda driven behavior. |
When "certain individuals" become a majority of the voting public, they cease to be "certain individuals" and become "the voice of the people" and the issue then becomes one of you, the minority, having to establish that there is some sort of practical necessity and/or a real danger to your personal liberty involved. You seem to be making an unconvincing case. You can not establish that having access to assault rifles will protect you from a government that has assault rifles, tanks, riot gear, unmanned drones, and countless other weapons. The truth of the matter is that your real protection is not the guns, it is the vote and the courts and respect for the rights of individuals other than yourself. The very rhetoric you so love is more dangerous to your liberty than any law that would limit your access to any weapon. Every time you demonize your opposition, every time you put out the message that anyone who disagrees with you must have "irrational fears" or be a "nanny stater", you create more fertile soil for planting the seeds that allow a government that feels free to treat you the same way to grow and flourish. Just remember this, no matter what you may have heard, fascists always jail the "irrational political opposition" first. They already know they have bigger guns. In the modern world, they care more about the power of words than the power of guns. You seem to have little real knowledge of the real protections and freedoms you enjoy as an American citizen. You are more of a threat to your liberty than I could ever be.