Ancesthntr,
Your thoughts are based upon rights, and that’s fine. But let’s get it down to brass tacks.
Your statement: “but the main purpose is to serve as the ultimate safety net for our liberties.” I find this interesting as that may have been a need, or a possibility, in our early years. But now is impractical. If a group of people in a state, got together with their weapons and attack the government using force, they can’t win. The government is too well manned and supplied. And by saying a “civil war” is the answer, you’re talking suicide along with tyranny based upon an act of attack on the sovereignty, thus succession. South tried that.
Guns are not the weapon, votes are. Publicly damning candidates is the answer. Getting the truth out and getting people in that are not going to do harm hiding behind laws they invented, is the answer. Your problem is not about guns. It’s about trying to prove a point of the failure of the people to be either stupid enough, dishonest enough, or just plain lazy enough to put people in office that are not in their best interest. The guns won’t help. The vote does.
And that means both sides of the aisle. The ones doing harm and the ones letting them. You’re a believer in truth. Otherwise you wouldn’t be placing comments on these boards for the freedoms of the people which is what our liberties are about.
But ask yourself a question, would you trade the right to carry a gun for protection for the guarantee you wouldn’t need it? And at the same time know if you wanted it, you could get it anytime?
You mistrust the government, and with good reason. But that’s the voter’s fault for getting them in there. The answer is to get rid of the politician that you think you need guns for and getting guns out of the hands of the people that shouldn’t have them.
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And at the same time know if you wanted it, you could get it anytime?
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I am on a walk, and attacked by pit bulls. I need it now.
PS my Fort Hood reference was that none of the victims were armed to defend themselves.
And then our border is porous.