[mtngrl@vrwc]

I need your help, brother in FReep. I am talking to a friend and we have been discussing whether or not the second ammendment would be harmed if say...assault weapons were banned. I say that it would start us down the slippery slope of losing our right to bear arms.

She says "The whole 'don't give the government an inch or they'll take a mile' doesn't seem to ever happen".

Anybody want to weigh in here?

I need some examples where we Americans have lost our rights in recent times. Help!

[reDublican]

Well, sometime during the nineties we lost the right to go about our day without having some obnoxious Hollywood diva force her self-righteous opinions down our throats.


...but I don't think that's what you meant.

[kitkat]

Well, okay. We lost our right to refuse to fill out the long form census questionnaire. The constitution says we only have to report our names and how many people live in the house.

NEXT?

[kitkat]

We lost the right to decide to whom we'd rent our homes.

[MJY1288]

First off, Assault weapons have been banned for many years. The problem we face is that the gun grabbers have grouped all semi-auto rifles together as Assault weapons. A true Assault Weapon is a Full Auto Machine Gun or Pistol. Semi Auto weapons are not assault weapons. What the gun grabbers have managed to do is label any semi-auto version of a military weapon as an assault weapon.

What needs to happen is a repeal of the Brady Bill and enforce the laws on the books before this intrusive and un-constitutional Brady Bill was signed into law. I'm all for a waiting period. and support the rejection of convicted felons to own firearms. Law abiding citizens should never be denied the right to bear arms. Convicted felons should be denied this right until they can prove they are no longer a threat to society.

The constitutional rights of law abiding citizens should always be protected. Convicted felons are a different story. I believe convicted felons should lose their rights until they can prove they are no longer a threat to society. To live as an american requires a commitment to the rule of law, and if a person chooses to ignore that commitment they should lose the rights so many patriots have faught and died for. Freedom is not a gaurantee, it's a commitment

[olliemb]

As far as doctors--we used to charge a fee for our services. Government medicare started telling the docotrs and the hospitals how much they would pay for services. Then Teddy Kennedy brought in HMO and we got fixed rates. Now medicare dictates and the HMO follows and we work just as hard or harder and longer hours for less pay. We should have fought when we disagreed witht he price fixing but we didn't. Yes, give them an inch and they will take more. Never give in-as far as the guns make enforcing of the laws the way to circumvent problems.

[kayak]

Education! When schools started accepting federal money, the local schools lost their right to make decisions for what is best for their own community .... and a very long slippery slope to the present farce that is our education system began. We now have people so dumbed down that there are college graduates who think that George Washington fought in World War II and that Germany was our ally .... people who think that New Mexico is a foreign country ..... graduates who can't read, write, spell, add or subtract, but who know all about diversity. I could go on and on but that should give you some ideas to work with.

Also political correctness is another example of a slippery slope ...... it's about to get to the point that half of the English language is now taboo.

[goodnesswins]

How about the whole fiasco with our borders ..... they used to have to learn to SPEAK ENGLISH, PROVE they had jobs or other means, etc. now, if you can just streak in, you're in for good. (And, get medical services, education,etc.)

[goodnesswins]

Also.....Hiring employees (and other Human Resource functions)

Used to be you hired the MOST QUALIFIED individual - these days you have to look at their color, sex, orientation, etc.....

Human Resource Departments (even in the private sector) have become an arm of the Federal Gov't

[goodnesswins]

AND....you've got me started.....

Health Care - if the government was NOT involved our health care costs would NOT be as HIGH as they are!

Then there's Social Security....the system that keeps on taking....started out as a benefit for widow's.....

Mtngrl....are you going to make a list of all these? I'd like a copy if you do to use in the future. Thx