Weapons Ban Lacks Votes to Pass Senate

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Or, they see Obamacare and the fact that the government is not held accountable for not functioning. No budget in almost half a decade, refusing to follow or enforce laws they do not care for, the reelection, and the major step towards socialized medicine gives supporters the feeling of power and support. Many believe quite literally they can do as they please. This panic has been vastly more pronounced exactly because the president seems to believe he can really do just as he pleases, can make any kind of pronouncement he wishes, and rule almost as he deigns.

No, he does not see himself as a dictator to be fair, but the guy isn't American, regardless of his Hawaii birth place, he's spent so much of his life living where the roles of the people versus rulers is different than our own. His fundamental understanding of American citizens is formed by other nations, not ours. My mom or dad always told me it didn't matter what happened at my friends' houses, where I lived the rules were the rules. Obama doesn't in his core believe in American rules and ideas about people vs government. He truly sees people as being ruled in some vaguely parliamentary way.

Why does that matter? They truly believe that they can push through these bans the costs be damned because, well, the costs won't be that big of a deal, they won't ultimately hurt the President, and the ultimate molding of America is more important - not for the sake of the people, but for the sake of the people.

As silly as I think quoting movies is to establish legitimacy, they feel as Loki did in The Avengers.

"I come with glad tidings of a world made free. [Free from] Freedom. Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart...you will know peace. "

"Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel."

They seek to make us free, free from the responsibilities that come with freedom, of standing on our two feet, of protecting ourselves and our families. When we seek freedom, we unleash evil upon the world that, but for us, could not exist. That is their belief. They seek to ignore the Constitution because they find it inconvenient and irrelevant because it was written by men dead now for 200 years.

Read the Bible. Read it for understanding. I say that to anyone, not merely a Christian. Don't read the New Testament, but read the Old Testament. Don't read it to understand God's judgement if you have no concerns about God. Read it to understand human nature. That book, if you view it as nothing more, was written more than 3,000 years ago, with the newest portions of the Old Testament being somewhere around 2,500 years old. Mankind has never changed. Our garments change, our speech changes, our modes of killing and transport change, our understanding of the physical world evolves, but WE DO NOT CHANGE. Ever. What you read, written by men who did not know of the New World, who did not know of Washington or Madison or any person who is far more recent, shows that we are the same now as ever. It isn't prediction of the future but merely knowing the hearts of man kind.

Had Marx read it, rather than discarding it among the piles of opiates for the masses, he would have understood that his ideals could not work with humanity. The framers of the Constitution DID actually read it and agreed with it regarding humanity's behavior. It had not changed by the waning of the 18th century. It has not changed now in the dawn of the 21st century.

Hitler thought he could ignore Napoleon's defeat in Russia. He fell the exact same way.

We must draw the line, we must NOT compromise. Humanity's heart has never changed nor will it ever. Our hubris arises because we believe with more knowledge comes more wisdom. Absurd. I might understand the atom, but my heart is no different now than when Jefferson wrote letters to Madison or when Joel warned Judah about human behavior.

The left refuses to understand human nature. They wish the safety of servitude. I demand the danger of freedom and with it, the power to protect myself, my wife, my children, my property. I do not ask for that right, for it is mine already. But I refuse to cede it to someone else.

We must fight this, because if we do not, then our constitution and the line IT draws in the sand against the government is irrelevant. The stakes are far higher than merely who gets to own an AR or a 30 round magazine.
 
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Great Post, Ash!

I've long said that our society is highly technologized, not highly civilized. The one constant in world history is man's inhumanity to man.
 
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