RAVE and SHARE if you believe in limited Government. "The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining or aiding them in their pursuits" Thomas Jefferson
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"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining or aiding them in their pursuits" Thomas Jefferson
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Rave and Share Limited Government
+9OH MY that's a GOOD one. I'm surprised (and ashamed) that i never found that specific quote myself. I know I get my beliefs from writings, sayings etc like these but it's hard to pinpoint the specific quotation. It's like if you ask how you know that red is red. You don't know specifically where you found out but you know it's true.
There is a role for government and a role for regulation. That said, too much can be just as bad as too little.
Meanwhile, in 1775 our government--then loosely united colonies--quickly formed a standing army to "aid the people." And of course in our country's early years, the government was giving away 40 acres of land to homesteaders. The "I've got mine" sorts in this day and age, a good many having inherited family wealth, brag about making their own way. And when they talk about limited government they really mean any form of social security or health care coverage for the impoverished, ill and infirm . . . and they want restrictions removed on all forms of big business contributing to the destruction of our environment and our very planet. Many others would like to remove traffic laws against speeding and drunk driving, signal light cameras in school zones, etc.
Let's get real. The truth is that without some sort of birth control, we're going to need increasing government regulations to match the problems of a burgeoning population.
Really?
That is why I keep telling you that people like you are the enemy.
What I was saying is that you support a government which interferes with the lives of humans while letting corporations get away with murder.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be in-fringed.”
None of our gun laws apply in any way to a well-regulated militia--which we don't need in the first place. The second amendment is completely outmoded and should be repealed.
To many of us it’s obvious that in the context of its time this amendment to the U. S. Constitution 224 years ago did not visualize today’s American society--especially such things as the now commonplace practice of carrying concealed handguns. Or of weapons designed for mass killings being in the hands of mentally-distrurbed children.
And the well-regulated militia that was the intent of this amendment did not envision the citiadel currently planned on an Idaho mountaintop by paranoid gun fanatics.
There was no standing army whatsoever in the colonies at the be-ginning of the American Revolution. It was colonial and local militias with a training tradition dating back to 1632 that first repelled the British Army. A bit later, a standing army under George Washington was formed from various militia units. Individual militias also were called up to assist this colonial army as the war proceeded.
A bit after the Revolution, in 1789, with the ty...
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be in-fringed.”
None of our gun laws apply in any way to a well-regulated militia--which we don't need in the first place. The second amendment is completely outmoded and should be repealed.
To many of us it’s obvious that in the context of its time this amendment to the U. S. Constitution 224 years ago did not visualize today’s American society--especially such things as the now commonplace practice of carrying concealed handguns. Or of weapons designed for mass killings being in the hands of mentally-distrurbed children.
And the well-regulated militia that was the intent of this amendment did not envision the citiadel currently planned on an Idaho mountaintop by paranoid gun fanatics.
There was no standing army whatsoever in the colonies at the be-ginning of the American Revolution. It was colonial and local militias with a training tradition dating back to 1632 that first repelled the British Army. A bit later, a standing army under George Washington was formed from various militia units. Individual militias also were called up to assist this colonial army as the war proceeded.
A bit after the Revolution, in 1789, with the tyranny of the British king still fresh in everyone’s mind (along with lingering memories of the earlier French and Indian War)--and the standing army largely dissolved temporarily--the second amendment was written. Militias, sort of the National Guard of their day, were important as a protection against foreign invasion--mainly the likes of the English, plus ever-present mistrust of the French.
So here we are today with a country boasting (the last figure I can readily find) some 270,000,000 million civilian guns. And among our freely allowed organized religions is one which worships the gun as the supreme being--the NRA. We have 9,960 homicides by gun in a given year.
I truly can’t visualize in my mind just what sort of tyranny some guy with 30 guns in his house (recent drug-bust search in Seattle) is protecting himself against. Perhaps he had some vague concept of fighting off the forces of law and order working hard to protect the multitude--and perhaps some of his weapons will end up the hands of the seriousl disgruntled. I do know that any of us (including our children) can be shot dead most any day in a primary school, movie theatre, shopping mall--or my stray bullets on the streets of such cities as Chicago, Seattle and others.