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In reply to the discussion: "We stop being something to be proud of when we love our guns more than we love our children" [View all]thefool_wa
(1,867 posts)I feel, today, that the second amendment will provide us the tools to take our country and our system of government back from the power-money corruptive influences that undermine our democracy today and will continue to grow, unchecked, until we do something violent about it. I TRULY HOPE THIS IS NEVER NECESSARY, but without guns, if it does happen, we are left with NO way to stop it. This is the modern equivalent of the reason the 2nd amendment was originally given to us.
It just hasn't reached the boiling point yet, and I am not saying it will, but it has done nothing but get worse and worse and all our "non violent" protesting has gotten us is people camping in the rain getting pepper-sprayed while those same influences continue to destroy both our democracy, and our ability to live in a country ALL OF US love.
I have to say yet again, that I don't believe we should do nothing, but consider this. Even if they DO ban semi-auto rifles and high capacity magazines, corproations and private security forces all over the country will still be able to buy them. NOW how do you take your country back. When those same corporations loby our government to let them build cities they can move workers to and pay them in script and gruel, THEN how do we take back our country?
I do not think these are unreasonable fears, not when you consider the direction this country has been going for a very long time now. It will take maybe another 50 years or more, but if we do nothing, it will never change. And when we have tried everything else and they still thumb their noses at us, scoop all the money up and leave us starving, how then are we to get our country back?
I get you all think I am paranoid, but its not due to lack of cause. Things haven't gotten better under Obama, no matter how much you want to believe it, and they are only going to get worse. CAN we fix it without violence, I think so, and i hope so, but if not, without the tools to take it back, we are left having to watch it get worse and swallow all of us until we live in a 3rd world country filled with nothing but the uber rich and the uber poor.