I just facepalmed reading MOBOOST’s contribution. REALLY DUDE? you’d LIKE to see a violent uprising here? The country doesn’t have a GUN problem, we have a PEOPLE problem. Guns will ALWAYS be available illegally for those that intend to use them for illegal actions…gun laws and legislation will never touch the black market on guns…so all laws and legislation do is take guns out of the good guys’ hands and we’re left at the mercy of those illegally obtained guns because we’ll have made it essentially illegal to protect ourselves.
You also seem to fail to recall that the 2nd amendment was written as a means for the people to defent themselves against overbearing government (gee, guess what we have these days!)…the very people the 2nd amendment was written to protect us from are trying to infringe upon that very amendment…do you understand what that means? I wish I could think of a simple analogy to explain what this is like, but I can’t…becuase it should just be understood.
People seem to forget that the constitution, bill of rights, and the amendments were all written as a means to keep the government from becoming too big, in this country the collective society is supposed to have more power than the government. That is becomming less and less the case. As a society, we are letting FEAR cloud our judgements and giving away our rights becuase someone is promising us that giving them up will make us safe…which is horseshit. Anyone who truly beleives an organization as corrupt and self-mided as the government can really gaurantee their saftey should be admitted. No one is/should be responsable for your safety but your god damned self.
“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” - Benjamin Franklin
More on-topic, I DO think one of two things will be happening in the future…either we will have a major uprising, or we will all submit to the governement…which will then be some crazy group of people that only let their friends into their club to further their own interests at the expense of the collective whole. And honestly, even if we have an uprising…the latter could happen in the aftermath anyway…they can just kill anyone against them with drones and shit. Then we’ll REALLY be a society living in fear…but instead of fearing outsiders, we’ll fear the very people that control us.
The only way to avoid those two posibilities is to actually come together as an informed society and VOTE the correct people into government positions. I’m sorry, but the days of democrats and republicans being the only two necessary parties are long behind us…both parties have become corrupt in their own way. We need a reset to the original values this government was run on. We need a new George Washington, a man interested only in the well-being of his citizens, not in foreign affairs and policing the world.
Edit: I would like to point out that I have never considered myself a gun person. I never payed much attention to gun debates, because I didn’t think it mattered. I don’t give a shit about having or shooting guns for fun/sport…but I CAN tell you, that the state of affairs we are in has piqued my interest in purchasing a few guns for protection of myself and my property.
