08-10-2012, 09:20 PM
The American experiment isn't a guarantee that you'll live in utopia, or live a peaceful life free of sorrow. It is a minimal government experiment that has proven to be the most free society on earth, where millions have flocked to escape tyranny. Having the ability to protect one's life, family, and property is central to this environment, nuts with guns included.
In other countries, the nuts with guns ARE the government, so I'll enjoy my freedom, thank you. People that wake up in the morning and assume that they have a right to enjoy a day free of conflict, with a certain expectation of total safety, but without working to preserve that safety themselves, are living in a fantasy. If you walk into a theater with a sign indicating that law-abiding people will be unarmed, you just walked into a maniac's dream kill zone. It isn't anybody's fault, but a risk you take with your life, just like the Founders took a risk with theirs by sacrificing everything and revolting against tyranny, only they insisted that owning and bearing arms be a fundamental tenet of our precious Republic...if we can keep it.
Excellent article, OP. Thanks for sharing!
In other countries, the nuts with guns ARE the government, so I'll enjoy my freedom, thank you. People that wake up in the morning and assume that they have a right to enjoy a day free of conflict, with a certain expectation of total safety, but without working to preserve that safety themselves, are living in a fantasy. If you walk into a theater with a sign indicating that law-abiding people will be unarmed, you just walked into a maniac's dream kill zone. It isn't anybody's fault, but a risk you take with your life, just like the Founders took a risk with theirs by sacrificing everything and revolting against tyranny, only they insisted that owning and bearing arms be a fundamental tenet of our precious Republic...if we can keep it.
Excellent article, OP. Thanks for sharing!