by jshuberg on Tue Nov 18, 2014 12:16 am
As long as there are megalomaniacs running the government, the 2A will be under attack. They'll try differing strategies, different angles, they may back off and play rope-a-dope for awhile, but they'll be there. They simply have a philosophical opposition to individuals having any power to control their own lives, provide for their own physical security, or possess any means to challenge their exclusive control over our lives.
Fighting to maintain our 2A rights is absolutely necessary for the people to remain free. However, I don't think preserving our 2A rights will win the "war". For that, we need to change people's hearts and minds.
Back when the country was first founded, the notion of individual liberty and restricted government were the most important concept in our new country. Note that "liberty" as used by the founding fathers meant an absence of government intrusion in people's lives.
Somewhere in the past, I'm guessing in the mid 1910s, the idea that liberty was the central concept that made our country great, and made it's people free was replaced with the notion of democracy. Democracy was never once mentioned in the constitution, and the writings of both federalist and anti federalists at the time completely discounted democracy as a form if government that would result in freedom for the people. That's why we are not a democracy, we are a federal republic.
Liberty and Democracy are in fact as opposite as you can get. One is near absence of government intrusion, the other is near total government control. One empowers the individual, the other empowers the collective at the expense of the individual. This could not has be been accidental, especially given the word "democracy" is never mentioned in the constitution. Somewhere, at some point there must have been an intentional misrepresentation, an intentional replacement of liberty with democracy. There was a propaganda campaign, and the people no longer recognize liberty as the one guiding principle that we should strive for in government. To restrict government to the smallest footprint possible, and to empower the individual.
Until we return the concept of liberty to the public consciousness, and throw off the lie of "democracy", the 2A and all other individual human rights will be under threat from our government.
We need to resist collectivism in any and all forms, and return power to the individual, or our and every cause for freedom will eventually be lost.
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