It's that mentality of a NATION that has kept us a one for so many years.
moonbeam wrote:
Get over it. America has certain, what would someone call them--Oh, yeah, Unalienable rights that cannot be infringed on. If you lose one of them, it is sort of built like a house of cards, as it should be. Like the Pres not holding all the power. That why they created things like Senates and Congresses kinda like the Roman model. That model has outlasted every other type of model that I know of. So, if you don't agree with one, that one goes, the others are right behind it because someone disagrees with that one. Pretty soon, your cards are on the table and you have either one of two things: Anarchy or Tyranny. Which would your choice be. Can't you agree to all of them rather than none of them? Already, we are violating the Madison papers with Obamacare that solidly states that the powers which be cannot place something on the citizenry that they themselves do not have to live by. That is exactly what Obamacare is. And that is exactly why, in the democratic scheme of things, it won't work. The founding fathers were very careful. Don't think for one moment they didn't sit that and talk about the citizens rights to carry and bear arms. If you have read the entire Right...you must have also read in the same sentence our right for town militias--armed--men over the age of 16 and less than 69. In order to come out and protect the citizenry if it came to open hostilities within our neighborhoods or precincts or whatever. IN THE SAME SENTENCE. That concept of a motley crew of militia will stand their ground on the streets, fully armed to protect you and me, even where we do have arms in our homes. You can't understand the need for arming the populace? The Jewish nation was hoodwinked by the Philistines, who because of the famine in the land, agreed to give up their weapons for food. Yeah, they were killed with their own weapons. I would be really suspicious of the person who would ask me to give up the only thing I have to protect me and mine besides the lord. And even the Lord said, be harmless as a dove, but wise as a serpent, and I'm a Texan. Believe me, if you asked a rattle snake for his rattles, you will get bit really fast. Live Love from the great Republic of Texas!
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