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With the merits, demerits and total misunderstandings of the Second Amendment in the news, there seems to be a renewed interest in insurrection among the second place finishers from last months presidential election. First there was the on-line petitioning for secession. Like all such petitions, it was simply symbolic though, I'd bet a few folks thought they had checkmated the president. Hoisted by his own petard? No.
Here's the 2A as ratified by congress and the states:
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Somehow some people find overthrowing a tyrannical Federal government in those words. I can't find it. Can you? It's not implied, hinted at or even written in invisible ink between the lines. To be Ferrer, some writings of the time by our founders discussed a right of people to rise up against tyranny but, also to be Ferrer, I think our founders were taking up for their right to do so, at the time. They weren't saying that we should make a regular occurrence of this revolution business. Why should they have?
Were we to have a revolution today, it would be an insult to every revolution in history as well as every future revolution. We would be the laughing stock of every nation, ever.
See, every revolution I can think of was necessary. The masses were persecuted in Russia, China, France and Cuba. Kings and Monarchies were the ruling class and the masses scraped by with zero hope of representative change. When you ain't got nothing, you've got nothing to lose. Why not fight back?
In the case of three of the above, the folks traded their dire circumstances for communism. The brochure did not mention they would be trading one brand of oppression for an other. The salesmen always gloss over that part. And those revolutions weren't keen on retaining any right for the people to exhibit any dissatisfaction with the new bosses. In fact, they took away the guns they had so freely handed out before the revolt and got pretty serious about locking up folks who looked like trouble. A little disingenuous of them, I think.
The rest of the world knows we have no legitimate reason to revolt. Unlike the four countries mentioned, people are still sneaking into this country to partake in our wonderfulness. That ought to tell you something. There is this and that wrong here but, anybody can do this or that and live very well in this country. Hell- anything goes here! You can live like a drug dealer here just by dealing drugs or getting into venture capitalism. It doesn't really matter. The laws here make both possible. We've really got little to complain about in a historical context.
So, our wannabe-revolutionaries have to make stuff up. They don't like our president. Oh- it's NOT because he's black! Why that just has NOTHING to do with it! No, it's because he's a dictator...communist...socialist...secret Muslim...Kenyan...yada...fucking...yada...but, NOT because he's black. How could anyone get that idea that it's racial with all those so-definitive strikes against him? I mean- really?
Ehhh, I don't really take talk of secession and revolution seriously. It all comes from internet typehards and slave state congressmen who probably know no one really cares about what they say. It's a lot of tough talk that is surprisingly easy to say with a straight face by some folks. It's said with no shame though. Imagine one of our secessionists visiting North Korea, Cuba or some third world country in Africa and complaining about the need for revolution in America. .I don't know if one of those citizens would laugh or cry. I wouldn't blame them if they cooked them and fed their village.
Of course, because of the recent massacre of six year olds in Connecticut, the president is talking of the need for gun control. As any strict constitutionalist can tell you, that means a total gun ban. (even though that's not at all what it means) and, as the 2A says; (quoting here?) "Them's fightin' words!"
Ya know what would happen after a bloody revolution, if these gun nutters were to win? They'd take your guns away so you couldn't use 'em against them. That's not in the brochure. It never is. Just like it's not in our Constitution.
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I would like to know why an NRA membership of under 5 million can hold so much sway in a country of over 303 million people? For a relatively small group they seem to hold a disproportionate amount of sway with the government.
I appreciate that the majority of gun owners are not members of this Association but the NRA seems to speak for them all.
There was a piece on the news last night showing people handing in firearms and receiving compensation, and there were some heavy-duty pieces on show. Of course, the paranoid will not be parting with anything, it will only be normal people handing guns in, but it's a step in the right direction.
As usual, it's lobbying money. Plus, the NRA and pro-gun crowd is decidedly Christian so that fear salesmanship is a huge factor as well. This definitely fattens things up. This is anecdotal (from the threads) but, some have written about the *right* for street gangs to be armed...if they aren't felons yet... I think this is because 'business is business' and their crime increases sales. They argue it's a "right".
Chicago and other major cities have done buy-backs for years. They usually get a lot of cheap/old guns off the street which does help. It helps but, it seems more symbolic.
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, SUE!
Thanks, Ferrerman, and the same to you and yours. Hope you have a lovely day.
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I watched an eye-opening documentary on the US government some time ago and the impression it left was that the people voted in were not running things on behalf of those who had voted them in. Lobbyists were running the show, and the bribery was quite blatant - paying for votes on issues of vested interest with both cash and gifts of other sorts. This is NOT Democracy by any stretch of the imagination. This is rule by greed.
Yep. That's an open secret here. Even when they 'reform' it's just a way of legalizing what they've been doing anyway. The NRA clearly lobbies for the gun companies but *looks* like a grassroots, people organization. The pharmaceutical companies wield huge clout to keep pot illegal (though two states have begun to change that) and Monsanto rules our food. Most congressmen come out of office as millionaires. This is why our 1%'ers are so well represented and why we get 'trickle-down'. We get the scraps.
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