Hmmmm...JB, guess we all need to stock mortars and tanks, and for the most ardent of defensive weapons enthusiasts, a few intermediate range nukes. That'll keep us in bread if things get tough and we need to defend our homs:laughing:
I do support gun ownership, but there HAS to be a point at which personal defense stops and collective defense begins.
I, too, have been stunned by recent visits to gun shops that are filled with patrons, at all times of day. Seems that the interest in weapon ownership is alive and thriving.
And, remember, it was a Republican administration who
brought you search and seizure at airports, invasion of privacy via electronic means and holding US citizens without any trial.
You can argue its necessity, but the facts are irrefutable, we lost more individual freedoms from this act than at any time since WW2. It is the largest federal government reorganization since the
Department of Defense was created via the
National Security Act of 1947 (as amended in 1949). It also includes many of the organizations under which the powers of the
USA PATRIOT Act are exercised.
I believe you can NEVER completely stop terrorist attacks. They don't in Israel, or England, or elsewhere, including the USA....examples being the Fort Hood shooting, Gabby Giffords shooting, Oklahoma bombing, anthrax letters, the unabomber, Virginia Tech Massacre .... you can add your favorites, either from before or after the Patriot act. These sad events with loss of life and personal impact are simply part of the risks of life. These risks can never be brought to ZERO.
And, these risks have been with us always. I have PERSONALLY read the spanish handwritten minutes of the town council of Goliad, Texas, 1824. Comanches were well known to raiding the immediate area, killing farmers and family. Believing that the council needed to do something, they passed an ordnance that no one should go outside of town without carrying a weapon, else they would be fined upon return.
Idiotic!! If threat of immediate torture and death was insufficient to motivate a person to carry a weapon, surely a fine would be ineffective!!
So, for those of us concerned about the
size of government and federal debt, remember that a Republican administration removed personal freedoms, increased the size of government and
introduced massive federal spending by use of emergency supplemental spending outside the budget process.
Just saying that anytime we become so worried about safety that we are willing to give up our freedoms along with massive current and future treasure seeking to achieve perfect protection and safety, it is a fool's quest. Remember Goliad!!
If you happen to believe that
actions speak louder than words, then look to the
ACTIONS performed by a political party rather than the
WORDS of a candidate. Of course, this requires understanding actual actions and results, while not yielding to emotionally tinged and biased words/commentary which are seldom founded on any true facts.
So, next time you vote, do so based on past actions of a party, not words/promises which are easy to say, hard to implement unless you are the king OR an
authoritarian government like in Syria.... and we dismissed that form of government a while ago.
There, I did it...started with Syria and ended with it!!
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