mikestone 967 wrote:
Claiming that "the United States is not a democracy" is merely a right-wing meme. It is wrong, and we don't need to go there. It certainly doesn't help the cause of gun rights.
OH MY GOD! Are you serious?
Wow! You truly have zero understanding of our form of government and for you to post what you did shows nothing less than ignorance of that fact...
We "elect" our Representatives through a somewhat "democratic" process.
Period.
That's it..
The United States of America is NOT a democracy and for YOU to imply otherwise is only proof that you don't have a freaking clue as to our form of government..Wow!!
As to "whether or not" it helps gun rights..... Are you serious?
So... Do you think that the federal government has the power and authority to alter or abolish anything they want?
Are you afraid that if you realize that the "elected royalty" can "take your stuff" it's better to "lay low" and not cause any waves?
Why? Because you have a permit signed by a Superior Court Judge that says the government has granted you the privilege of carrying a firearm under the government's terms, conditions, laws and regulations. That is no right at all. And thinking that the government granting you permission grants you a right is exactly the reason we don't have any rights left in this country.
The Federal Government and the house and congress don't run this "show".
"We, the People" DO.
We have a government "of the people, for the people, by the people".
You're going to need a refresher course on our form of government, that much is obvious because you have no understanding of our "system"...
.CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
