Not asking a question. Just making a statement and confirming the premise of your article.
Are you free today? I know that I’m not nearly as free as I was in the 50’s AND 60’s.
The money that you have is under the control of people who do not have your interest at heart but rather theirs.
We used to go swimming in local creeks, lakes and even cattle tanks and nobody complained. Now you have laws which prevent you from doing so in most places (For your safety of course).
When I go hiking I don’t use the trails and all the trails and Rangers tell you to stay on the trails for the preservation of the area or for your safety.
When I went to high school we had NRA days when we brought our rifles to school. We handed the rifle to the bus driver, he checked it and put it in the rack behind his seat. As we left the bus we were handed the rifle and took it immediately to the shop where they had a storage and where they held the classes. Think ANY school in the USA will do that today?
Every boy (and many girls) carried pocket knives. Nobody ever got stabbed or killed. A few got cut - but what the heck can you expect from kids and knives. It’s going to happen. It is a learning experience. We used to play mumbly peg at recess and the only things the teachers would say was “you kids be careful now”, and they would go their way. Now you would be brought to the office, the police would be called, your parents charged with a weapons crime and you would end up with a record.
One of the reasons things seem so much worse (referring to crimes / murder / rape / etc) was the press. It used to be that news was local. It rarely if ever left the city in which it occurred and only lasted one or two news cycles. Now it is posted across the US in every local paper, on every radio and TV station for months on end. Newspapers used to have news, advertisements and articles on local interest and who was having a social event or wedding etc. Not now. It is about events all over the USA and the rest of the world.
Laws reflect pressure from social nincompoops who hear this condensed information and go into fanatic fear mongering mode and start passing more laws.
Yes Virginia - we are no longer FREE and it is only getting worse.
>>>When I went to high school we had NRA days when we brought our rifles to school. We handed the rifle to the bus driver, he checked it and put it in the rack behind his seat. As we left the bus we were handed the rifle and took it immediately to the shop where they had a storage and where they held the classes. Think ANY school in the USA will do that today?<<<
Boy do I remember those times... We had some angled steel backstops with sand in the bottom, on wheels, in the gym - we had a High School Rifle team and only requirement was to show the bus driver that it was unloaded, and we even kept them locked in our lockers with our ammo till practice/match time.
All the Orwellian things we said ‘could happen someday’ seem to be coming into place at a dizzying pace.
Well said. I’m glad you are on this thread.
Excellent post. People don’t even realize how our freedoms have been eroded - and over a pretty short period of time too. I find the lack of awareness pretty scary.