You know I am new to this forum, and I don't want to offend anyone, but this seems to be an awfully odd discussion to even be having today. I mean even if you were brand new to America, fresh off the boat as it were from some small third world no where country, you would have to look around and say that you were in the freest place anywhere on the planet. Nowhere else in the world is quite like America where every citizen is not only free to be who they choose to be, work where they choose to work, eat what they choose to eat, love who they choose to love, worship what ever God they choose but at the same time is an equal owner of their own country.
Yes, we as citizens are owners of this country, not it's guest and here in is the answer to your argument. We as owners are responsible for it's upkeep and protection just as you yourself are responsible for the upkeep and protection of your own property. True, just as with your home, we hire police to help protect our property; but that does not take away our own responsibility to secure and defend it ourselves. The same is true with our nation. Who among us, if our nation was invaded, would not defend her in any way we could? As owner/citizens it is not only our right but our duty to protect what is ours both in our nations defense and in the defense of our own homes and lives.
Our founders understood this. In fact, i many of the colonies it was against the law for a grown man to go unarmed lest he be unable to come to the defense of himself or his neighbor.
The Nazis, the communist and now the progressives in our own country always want to disarm the citizens with the false argument that it is for their own protection and that the nation state can and should be all the protection they need. Yet we have seen what happens in countries that assume that role; all too soon they feel it best to assume more and more authority and usurp more and more of what is by right the freedoms of those that trust them until nothing is left.
I don't think criminals are the real argument here. Crime never really is the reason for honest citizens to be disarmed; it is always the transfer of power and control from the people to the government that takes them.
In my faith we are taught of the war in heaven before the world was created; where Lucifer had one plan and Jesus had a better plan. Lucifer wanted to come down and control everything leaving no soul free to choose for himself and thus insuring that all would return to a heavenly reward. Jesus wanted all to be free to choose and thus we could all learn and grow from our own mistakes. I wont bore you with the dogma of my faith, but I will say this, we all chose to follow Jesus or we wouldn't be here today; why then would you choose to go the other way now and throw away your freedom now?
Just my two cents worth.
