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Lots of good replies.
I won't rehash.
I'll just point out that government has proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that it cannot be trusted to protect rights.
Mankind's political situation has been advancing for millenia, often paying in blood to wrest concessions in the form of rights from enobled, enroyaled, or otherwise empowered criminals (government). Somewhat recent high points: Magna Carta, abolishing the Star Chamber court, 1689 Declaration of Rights, Decl. of Independence, united States' constitutions just prior to the constitution, Bill of Rights, Thos. Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom.
Think about that for a minute. We're the high point, with a few other countries. There are still billions of people who do not even have close to the legal protections we have. Meaning, mankind still has billions of people to go in spreading rights upward and broader. And, yet some want to actually reverse the progress. Progress paid for in blood and sacrifice.
Whenever some court or congressgoon justifies an infringement because it will protect someone or save some lives, just recall how many died to get where we are today. The courts will rarely say, for example, that the few lives saved by DWI checkpoints, are far and away outweighed by the lives lost getting the freedom in the first place, and the cost in lives it will take to reaquire again the rights lost.
Can someone link Heller and McDonald. There is 2A history in there, and in the briefs.
I won't rehash.
I'll just point out that government has proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that it cannot be trusted to protect rights.
Mankind's political situation has been advancing for millenia, often paying in blood to wrest concessions in the form of rights from enobled, enroyaled, or otherwise empowered criminals (government). Somewhat recent high points: Magna Carta, abolishing the Star Chamber court, 1689 Declaration of Rights, Decl. of Independence, united States' constitutions just prior to the constitution, Bill of Rights, Thos. Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom.
Think about that for a minute. We're the high point, with a few other countries. There are still billions of people who do not even have close to the legal protections we have. Meaning, mankind still has billions of people to go in spreading rights upward and broader. And, yet some want to actually reverse the progress. Progress paid for in blood and sacrifice.
Whenever some court or congressgoon justifies an infringement because it will protect someone or save some lives, just recall how many died to get where we are today. The courts will rarely say, for example, that the few lives saved by DWI checkpoints, are far and away outweighed by the lives lost getting the freedom in the first place, and the cost in lives it will take to reaquire again the rights lost.
Can someone link Heller and McDonald. There is 2A history in there, and in the briefs.