Why are we calling it civil disobedience.”disobedience” implies that gun owners are doing something wrong.
What is happening is gun owners are refusing to comply with an illegal law.That is not “disobedience”, but is how the rule of law is supposed to work.
Correct! We are practicing fealty to the Constitution AND the Declaration of Independence. The former is the Law of the Land. The latter is the lawfully passed and ratified reset button should the powers that be forget to abide by the former.
“Disobedience” does not imply wrong-doing. It simply means not obeying an order.
“Why are we calling it civil disobedience.”disobedience” implies that gun owners are doing something wrong.”
You’re right it’s “governamental criminality”
Only an observation...but over the last decade...you have various county, state, and federal cops who make the comment that they will enforce law X, but not law Y and Z. So the paper that the laws have been written on...is worthless, and the time invested in writing them...flushed down the toilet.
It was only a matter of time before the same practice....came upon citizens of the country....obeying law X, and but not law Y and Z.
Tens of thousands of laws for you to comply with...and like some menu....you pick and chose what you might agree with. That’s not a common sense approach to life or running a country. Luckily, I’m not in Alabama and attempting to impersonate a member of the clergy (yeah, that’s a state law with jail time, if you didn’t know).
>>Why are we calling it civil disobedience<<
You’re absolutely correct! It is resistance.
We need to push back against illegal mandates.
Just because it’s law, does not mean it is legal or just.
Examples: Abortion, homosexual marriage, overburdening taxes to a fiscally out of control government, big soda ban and all this nonsense.
People need to push back on this stuff and not kneel down before the trench.
I am curious why you think “disobedience” implies doing something wrong. To disobey is simply the negation of to obey. Disobedience to God, disobedience to godly authority, disobedience to the just demands of duly constituted authority that do not contradict God’s law, these are wrong. But disobedience to tyrants, to the commands of fools, to demands even of duly constituted legal authorities elected by popular vote when they are contrary to natural law or trample upon natural rights, are not wrong.
The classic examples of civil disobedience in American history — the refusal of American patriots to obey the dictates of the Crown, the refusal of abolitionists to obey fugitive slave laws, the refusal of black folks during the civil rights movement to obey Jim Crow laws — all involved doing nothing wrong, while by the very definition of civil disobedience, they all involved breaking a law.