AKElroy said:
I own & carry guns to exercise my right. I vote to exercise my right. I write my congressman to exercise my right. I protest to exercise my right. I worship to be pleasing & acceptable to God, and I can because I am free. None of our rights can survive without exercise. Freedom requires action or it's gone.
Many, many good things were given to us with the Bill of Rights. I am proud to be an American most of the time, but there's a lot about our government that pisses me off, and we do sit back and take it most of the time. They infringe on our rights and meddle in things that they cannot possibly solve. Universal healthcare is one of the sole things that the government could change for the good of us all in the end, but dropping the police state, especially police of the world, would solve far more problems.
bgrav321 said:
I've told people who look at me incredulously, "because the very fact that I own one helps secure your freedom."
Arms are a guarantor of freedom. Armed populations do not quietly succumb to tyranny.
America has lived with tyranny for several years now, and I don't think the tyranny will change with Obama. Perhaps better than King Bush, but Obama has already inhereted most of his predecessor's powers and doesn't seem to care about reversing any of this stuff.
I honestly believe that there might need to be a revolution with citizens demanding their GOD GIVEN rights, the ones that are INALIABLE. Life = don't shoot, or even threaten to shoot, people with tasers if you wouldn't shoot them with a bullet; make a one payer health insurance system and end the corporate B.S... Liberty = dont' tell me I can't grow Mary Jane in my backyard to smoke, make rope, make clothing, make paper, etc.; quit making it harder for the good people to get access to guns... Pursuit of Happiness = quit stealing from the poor and giving it to the corporations, quit pushing the necessity to search vehicles without hard evidence or warrant, and instead of deceptively infringing on people's rights, why not create Democracy 2.0 today?? We could all benefit from a government funded forum, where people can be completely inclusive in our REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, for everything except voting on each and every bill... and even our representatives could have to take a random 10 question test from a pool of 100 questions until they actually get 8 of 'em right -- repeating and even cheating are allowed, so long as they understand what they're voting on and we can hold them all liable.
But the truth is. . . The government is NOT going to give us power like that. The government doesn't want to ENLIGHTEN and EMPOWER the general public with what has been known for centuries. We do have the power, but they don't want to teach people how much power we really have. Most people just ignore it and we keep on letting the government lie, steal, and kill... while we do have the power, but most just ignore it or don't truly understand how the Consitution was a gift to us to prevent the government turning into a police state with the few controlling the many. And until people realize that we need to stand up for ourselves, maybe even with firearms... the few will control the many until our civilization completely self-destructs.
Think about it. Cops mostly sign on to do good. But most cops are trained by the government to be deceitful when wanting to search people, when arresting for pot charges. Dammit.. if I'm smoking reefer, I am celebrating LIFE! What is a cop doing when he takes me to jail, because his boss told him so? His boss wants money all at the expense of our rights. If you asked the government 20 questions about why weed is a Schedule I drug, and alcohol, tobacco are completely legal... the government couldn't give you an answer. They couldn't answer why an incredible number of "stoners" can become so successful, artistic, passionate, enlightened thru perspective, etc. with a "mind altering substance", but they sure don't mind that the average person is stuck in fron of a TV for hours at a time, day in and day out. Anyway... until EVERY individual, especially including cops, demand answers from their government, they will continue to tap your phones and steal your money and tell you that you don't actually own your land if you don't pay your property tax.
Ask questions NOW!! I don't think most cops really want to arrest stoners, besides the fact that doing so provides them with a job. Deep down, they don't truly believe that stoners are infringing on anybody else's rights.... but they continue to arrest them without asking why they're doing it. People accept authority for no reason, when we are all equals. The government is actually equal to us. If they force something on us, we are supposed to ask questions... and if they fail to answer, we can only fight the police state who do not use their heads and hearts.
If you couldn't tell... I have my gun to exercise my right to form a militia against a tyrannical police state. In the meantime, while that pot is brewing, I will have my gun to protect my family & property. The main reason I own a gun, however, is because I think that our economy could potentiall fail because we're all too dependent on the government and corporations. And when everybody realizes that trucks can't bring their food to them anymore... I'll be pickin' off every critter that walks near my garden. Hmm.. I wonder what humans taste like.