It's a lie to say "government" can't go on a rampage.
Government has, does, and will continue to do so. Cops are shooting innocent civilians all too frequently, right in the streets, simply because they think they are a threat - exercising their rights. The discussion on whether to Open Carry has that as a core issue - can you trust the cops to not shoot you on sight?
Oh, yes they do - and ignoring that happening in our society right now is something that white suburbanites seem to be in denial about. Largely because it's young black men being gunned down. If it was your son stepping out of a car on private property to go hunting you'd be enraged - yet a young black man - or even boy - toying with a plastic firearm is gunned down within two seconds of a patrol car literally driving up next to him in a public park.
Apparently that the legal response you want practiced. Seems selective if it's ok to inflict on Americans of African descent. A young black man can be stopped and frisked, found to have a lockback knife, then beaten and left to die in a police van. Too bad for him. But government is flawless in protecting YOUR rights.
People are putting their trust into the Cloud rather than humans. We know we can make mistakes, but add a veneer of legitimacy and it's all OK. I suppose government didn't deliberately hold up tax exemptions for conservative organizations, and the officials who illegally did that getting away with it is OK, too. Letting guns cross the border and kill citizens, even our own agents is OK.
The ones directing this are also the ones who are now calling for our disarmament - and telling us it's OK, they are going to pass a tax to finance it, that WE will have to pay.
All too many are standing around trusting the government but not trusting their neighbor. Your neighbor is LESS likely to come out of his home shooting than a local government employee investigating a "Man with a gun" report.
The #1 lesson to be taken away from the American Revolution: GOVERMENT FAILED US. They instituted an oppressive war of occupation to enforce their agenda of milking us for taxes and disarming us. What we paid for in blood is what we read in the Bill of Rights.
Anyone in denial of that is forcing us to learn the lesson again. We are already seeing precursors and most of us are just whistling past the graveyard trying to ignore it.
Can we accept another infringement of our 2A rights? The question should be can you accept the loss of your rights at all? Just because you think it's ok doesn't mean you have a good grasp of the real picture. If you cultivate your point of view to only see pretty things how do you ever see the reality?
Basically those who can't see it aren't the ones who will be called on to clean up the mess. That's what we see in history over and over. The ones calling on disarmament won't be going into the streets to enforce it - and the ones resisting it won't come from those who trust in government.
The rain falls on the just and unjust alike, however. Don't think you will be free of paying the price for putting faith in "government." It has, can, and will fail you.
Government has, does, and will continue to do so. Cops are shooting innocent civilians all too frequently, right in the streets, simply because they think they are a threat - exercising their rights. The discussion on whether to Open Carry has that as a core issue - can you trust the cops to not shoot you on sight?
Oh, yes they do - and ignoring that happening in our society right now is something that white suburbanites seem to be in denial about. Largely because it's young black men being gunned down. If it was your son stepping out of a car on private property to go hunting you'd be enraged - yet a young black man - or even boy - toying with a plastic firearm is gunned down within two seconds of a patrol car literally driving up next to him in a public park.
Apparently that the legal response you want practiced. Seems selective if it's ok to inflict on Americans of African descent. A young black man can be stopped and frisked, found to have a lockback knife, then beaten and left to die in a police van. Too bad for him. But government is flawless in protecting YOUR rights.
People are putting their trust into the Cloud rather than humans. We know we can make mistakes, but add a veneer of legitimacy and it's all OK. I suppose government didn't deliberately hold up tax exemptions for conservative organizations, and the officials who illegally did that getting away with it is OK, too. Letting guns cross the border and kill citizens, even our own agents is OK.
The ones directing this are also the ones who are now calling for our disarmament - and telling us it's OK, they are going to pass a tax to finance it, that WE will have to pay.
All too many are standing around trusting the government but not trusting their neighbor. Your neighbor is LESS likely to come out of his home shooting than a local government employee investigating a "Man with a gun" report.
The #1 lesson to be taken away from the American Revolution: GOVERMENT FAILED US. They instituted an oppressive war of occupation to enforce their agenda of milking us for taxes and disarming us. What we paid for in blood is what we read in the Bill of Rights.
Anyone in denial of that is forcing us to learn the lesson again. We are already seeing precursors and most of us are just whistling past the graveyard trying to ignore it.
Can we accept another infringement of our 2A rights? The question should be can you accept the loss of your rights at all? Just because you think it's ok doesn't mean you have a good grasp of the real picture. If you cultivate your point of view to only see pretty things how do you ever see the reality?
Basically those who can't see it aren't the ones who will be called on to clean up the mess. That's what we see in history over and over. The ones calling on disarmament won't be going into the streets to enforce it - and the ones resisting it won't come from those who trust in government.
The rain falls on the just and unjust alike, however. Don't think you will be free of paying the price for putting faith in "government." It has, can, and will fail you.