But what of your family? What about your friends? Would you be willing to accept the loss of their lives too for your freedom?
And- even if you would be, how about the rest of the gun-owning population? Would they be willing to accept death before disarmament?
Your comment reminded me of the John Adams comment about not risking your life, but risking your “comfort”. And americans have a LOT of comfort to risk. Thing is, if they EVER required that everyone turn in all their guns by a certain date, a large portion of gun owners would realize that the next step would be to take away their comfort anyway, so they would, basically have nothing to lose.
And it would make this statement from “101 things to do before the revolution” obsolete:
“America is at that awkward stage where it is too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the bast**ds.”
So you think the government doesn't have plans for after they have taken the guns?
They want the guns so you can't stop them when they implement the next phase of creating a Walden paradise for themselves, free of excess and unnecessary peasants.
“But what of your family? What about your friends? Would you be willing to accept the loss of their lives too for your freedom?”
You’re mistaken. If they die, it won’t be for HIS freedom, it would be for OUR freedom. Friends and family are not exempted from liberty’s occasional tax collection, unfortunately.
those are the same questions we must all ask ourselves. I pray God give me the wisdom and courage to make the right choice.
It’s like Mel Gibson as William Wallace in “Braveheart” told the French princess: “every man dies, but not every man truly lives.” She wanted him to take a drug that would have numbed the pain, he kissed her and spit it out when she left his cell. He knew the torture & death he faced, but took it on bravely. It gets down to intensely personal decisions doesn’t it?
“But what of your family? What about your friends? Would you be willing to accept the loss of their lives too for your freedom?”
“Greater love has no-one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
—John 15:13
“Well, you may not know this, but there’s things that gnaw on a man worse than dying.”
Charley Waite (Kevin Costner) - Open Range
I’ve told my children from the time they were little that it is better to be killed where they stand than to go with someone who tries to kidnap them. This is NO different!