I have friends that are consistent in saying, "gun control can't happen here." I am speaking specifically about gun confiscation. Perhaps it is because I frequent gun shows and pawn shops that I meet a lot of what may be labelled as wacky people. Its not necessarily a regional thing, but the language is usually the same. These are folks (like the militia dude in the pic) that are committed to the belief that the government is going to disarm them all and make them dependent on what ever source of security will replace individual arms ownership. Do I think it could happen? You betcha!History has shown us that it is indeed possible in 'civilized' places for the individual citizen to be disarmed and punished accordingly. Countries such as Australia, Canada, England, Germany, and Russia have had this happen in the not so distant past (and some are still dealing with it). The Brady Campaign right now is calling for MORE gun laws that will lead to permanent seizures and bans in common arms. So, how many of you think it could happen here? How many of you would allow your rights to be squashed should that day come? Would you readily hand over a family heirloom to some government agent trying to do their duty? Would you say no? Would you risk arrest and/or jail for any of your beliefs? Tell me your opinion because I've heard both sides. I hope it never comes down to this kind of confiscation but unfortunately history tends to repeat itself.
I'd be most troubled by the government not giving me recompense commensurate with the value of said heirloom.
ReplyDeleteAs for using said heirloom to defend my liberty, there's all ways the anarchist's cookbook.
Regarding how evil totalitarians using the lack of firearms to control a populace, right before we invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq, I saw lots of angry b*stards shooting Kalashnikov's into the sky. Didn't seem to have any gun control there, yet one loon managed to enslave a populace.
There are a lot of home-grown terrorists thinking that it's ok to kill Liberals after listening to right-wing radio shows. (that Unitarian church massacre). The rule of law, freedom of speech, and the ballot box should define our politics. It shouldn't be intimidation from people who think it's OK to overthrow the government with assault weapons because some wacko told them the country is turning Socialist.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't all those people defending their reading of the 2nd Amendment worry about protecting the rest of the Bill of Rights? We lost a bunch of those freedoms the past 8 years.
Guns are a fact of life in America, as is food poisoning which will kill vastly more people than random gun attacks in any given year.
ReplyDeleteGuns are NOT a fact of life in Australia (I live in Melbourne), and as a father (a US citizen) moving back to the US with two small boys I must confront the fact that things like random school shootings continue to happen there.
Still, I'd rather that Congress fix food. I choose to resist the irrational gun control argument. blood and gore rule headlines and the six o'clock news, but need not rule my thinking. Fix the farm bill and the food we put into our mouths every day. Doing that will save lives, save our health care system and save our sanity.