If, between November of 2008 and January of 2009, the 20th Amendment is repealed then what will our gun culture’s answer be – nothing, absolutely nothing, as they have proven impotent against the cascading erosion of our rights.
Does the gun culture want to see a return of the Regulators of the late 19th century? The regulators were dead wrong 98% of the time in their determination of who was guilty or not, and they served as judge, jury, and executioner. A sadist experiment in the depreciation of due process that some of America is supportive of because gun control advocates are seen as traitors.
Now, as for a million man armed march on Washington D.C., were to come to fruition – God forbid, would our gun culture expect zero response from the government? We know from experience, such as in Concord just before our own revolution, the citizenry would start firing. What if there was a massive and complete military response? Would the survivors bemoan that Washington over reacted to an actual threat, yes, they would and they would be the first to scream government abuse – in a gun fight, we all take equal risks.
This country has also committed genocide that which we loathe Hitler and Lenin for – the Indian wars of the late 19th century, and surprisingly, it was the ‘militia’ that committed the most hideous of crimes. Wounded Knee was the result of trigger happy ‘militia’ members. The militia tried to sequester the Native Americans second amendment rights through the threat of lethal force and as a result the shooting started – the same type of scenario we saw at the hands of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen throughout the steppes of Russia and the Ukraine. The question becomes what gave the ‘militia’ the right to suspend the rights of others. Ergo, what is the meaning of tyranny?
In 1791, the second amendment was ratified for there was the very real threat of a slave revolt in this country. The suppression of human rights at the point of a gun – what then is tyranny?
There are groups who advocate violent overthrow of the US Government and the gun culture has insured that they too have the arms necessary to inflict war on these shores. We are a living paradox – helping to create that which we claim to want to prevent.
We want more guns in our society. How many more? A few hundred, a million, a billion? Is that going to make us safer? Psychotropic medications are the most heavily prescribed medications in this country – how many people of our gun culture are on medications that help keep them sane, an ugly question that needs to be asked. With the violence in our society, it is also a fair question that needs to be asked. Why should someone be trusted with a gun, if we have questions about your mental health? Hysterical affronts to gun control are the truer examples of weakened mental health.
More guns have not made us safe, regardless of what people want to think for people think and hear only what they want and disregard the rest. Plainly put.
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