01-16-2013, 03:09 AM
About a week ago I was in my adult martial arts class. At the end of the class a guy came in to pick up his 17y/o son. He announced that he had gotten his opinion published in the local paper regarding "The real meaning of the 2nd Amendment." I looked around at the class of 16 people. Americans all. But only the 17y/o boy my 16y/o daughter and myself were native English speakers ore even from the Anglosphere. The rest Russian-Cuban-Korean-Philipino-who-knows-what had all passed their citizenship tests. But 13 out of 16 people in that room thought that the Bill of Rights was about as revelent as the Monroe Doctrine or the Dread Scott decision. None of them had read or even heard of Locke or Hume or Smith ( whos ideas made the Bill of Rights posible). Since that father who made the statement was born, the population of his country has just about doubled, most of it from imigrents, just trying to work and fit in. The Washington government is counting on this diluting of the American Spirit to befuddle Americans who have not yet had enough time to fully assimilate in the free American culture. Washington is counting on cowering these new Americans into believing that the 2nd Amendent is no longer revelent. And if Washington gets resistance from educated/ traditional Americans, it will just bring in and grant citizenship to as many more aliens as necessary to get its way. //It's kinda connected.