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chemicalreaction wrote:
Ok, well if its a right then I would like to see you walk down the street with a loaded gun on the side of your hip. Is it going to happen? When will it ever happen? I'm just curious to know. You'll give up your life to protect that right? Good god, so its that important that you will die in order to carry a gun? Pretty sad. I feel that as a citizen I should have the right as well but I sure wouldn't go as low as to giving up my life.
I don't pay a state agency to go to church. That wasn't the question though. I was asked if I pay to go to church. Never did the word state agency come up. Yes, I do pay when I go to church though every Sunday morning at 11 am mass.
Yes, if it is a right we should be seeing lots of people walk down the street with a loaded gun on their hip. We, unfortunately are not seeing a whole lot of participation in the excersize of rights. Americans have slowly and steadily given up their independencefor comfort.I am often guilty of such compromises.
Our government was created solely to protect our rights. What we have today is a perversion of what we we are entitled to. Our Republic has been turned into a Socialist Oligarchy where our representatives seek out new ways to redistributewealth from those who earned it to the indigent, the lazy, the handicapped and to already obscenely wealthy banks and corporations. Much of this is done with the consent of a population made stupid by watching television and attending public schools, who believe that there is nothing wrong with giving away other people's money for charity, for public works that will never benefit them, for a military that goes overseas to protect other lands, and to service interest on debts that cannot be repaid.
The answer to our State budget woes is not to continue the pattern of taxation of life and liberty- but to slash expenses and cut state services and programs.
The moment we accept taxation on our essential liberities, we have surrendered them. We have allowed government to get a foot into the door of regulating them into oblivion. What's more, is this form of taxation is certain to have diminishing returns... the added hassle, the increased cost is a disincentive that will create fewer, not more taxpayers. It would be impossible to sustain a revenue stream that would satisfy the ever-increasing need of government.
The question has been asked of gunowners from time to time- "What would you do if the government came to confiscate your guns?" And that is really what your questions above are really asking. Government is capable of using a number of tools to seperate a gun owner from his property- unconstitutional laws, the color of law in the form ofthreats of arrest, coersion, stiff fines and penalties, and the possibility of being killed by authorities imposing the governments will.
This is where the line is drawn in the sand, you may stand only on one side or the other as there is no middle ground. You can live as a disarmed slave, subordinate to usurpers and thugs or you can make a stand in defense of liberty and lay your life on the line in opposition to tyrany. This isnt about dying to carry a gun... this is about protecting your self-determination, your freedom to choose. For me, I'd sooner die than to have someone force upon me their will, or allow them to seize what they have no lawful right to. If everyone felt like that, perhaps we would be living under a different government. I dont see that as such a 'low' thing to do.
