Your second amendment doesn't actually guarantee anything, because force is useless unless it is applied. In other words, what really counts is the will of the people. Think on it. You can have all the guns you like, if people are not prepared to USE them to defend liberty they guarantee nothing.
What is really killing both the UK and the US (and western civlisation in general) is the kind of attitude amongst the polical elites as evidenced by this article. A growing number of people either despise the system, or at the least take its strength and wealth and power for granted. They see it all around them and they think it will last forever. They don't realise that it requires hard work, tough decisions and strength to hold it all together (or they are too lazy to bother).
When culture's lose their self-respect they become rotten and decadent and eventually will be superceded by younger, more vibrant societies. In the case of Asia the Chinese. In Europe most likely Islam. In America probably hordes of Hispanics. Get used to it bunkie, cos its probably too late to stop it from happening.
Liberals, for unknown and illogical reasons, believe that peace and prosperity are the default condition, and insist that any deviation from this condition must be explained, with blame usually assigned to interference by evil conservatives.
In actual fact, of course, poverty and war are mankind's default conditions. Peace and prosperity, where they have existed, which has been only rarely in human history, do so only because they have been built and maintained via a great deal of effort.
I think this unconquerable and unquestioned belief that good things occur naturally, while bad things are produced only by human malevolence, explains most of why liberals believe and act as they do. All they have to do is use the power of the state to destroy the resistance of the bad people, and utopia will result.
Islam is vibrant??? It’s maniacal, not vibrant. That’s like calling the Nazis “vibrant.”
And, rest assured, most folks on FR just LOVE to use their guns.
Tell that to the IRA, or victims thereof. Or follow the demise of fox hunting, and the criminalization of self-defense in the UK, it tells the tale of "stolen" rights, as we NRA members have carefully noted.
Your second amendment doesn't actually guarantee anything, because force is useless unless it is applied
What's this "your second amendment" condescension?
You somehow don't sound like one of us -- Freepers that have sworn an oath to defend it.
Ever heard of the Battle of Athens (TN)?