I've been informed on more than one occasion that it's too late for voting to make a difference.
I fear those saying that may prove right, although none of us has a crystal ball. I still believe I have a duty to use all of the tools laid out for me by the Founders until it is clear that the only immediate choices are "alter and abolish" or submit.
One correspondent, who believes TINVOWOOT to be a certainty, also expresses the opinion that "our future lies in technology like our TUSC project (blockchain payment processing) and the DIY/3-D printed gun world."
Assuming he's right about the former, I don't see how that's really any answer at all. Either "we" win, meaning, alternative methods of gun-making are cool but ultimately unnecessary, or "we" lose, meaning the rulers will have the power to control and ban any workarounds to their agenda. Most still resisting won't have the requisite infrastructure and gun-making will probably look more like the way the Afghans do it.
If you really believe all means of civil redress have been exhausted, your choice will be to resist totalitarianism or submit to it. Evidently, some haven't accepted that the consequences will be real, up close and personal.
Happy Constitution Day to those who still care about it. And Happy Birthday, younger feral son Qusay.
No one wants there to be a physical showdown over guns, let alone, a civil war.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, voting the lessor of two evils for generations has only ever resulted in our rights being slowly and permanently eroded away; it's impossible to gain freedom in this matter, and even harder to restore it once it has been taken away. It's a one way street.
The government and media want to disarm you and they won't ever stop until they succeed. At some point, concessions and compromise become submission. Where is your line? I talk to a lot of gun culture folks they have told me their line is getting awfully close.
I am not saying to take your ball and go home, I am saying that you should prepare yourself for multiple scenarios because you never know what can happen.
There's the idiot box, the soap box, the ballot box, the cash box, the jury box, the jail box, the cartridge box and ultimately the pine box; plus the often in this list forgotten, possibly most important box, the furry, comfort, support box from which we all at one time emerged.
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of voting to preserve our rights, I am reminded of Justice Robert Jackson, who wrote this:
ReplyDelete"The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections."