Oh, I've been watching the gun grabbers very carefully for a couple of decades now.
We are not Venezuela.
We are very slowly kicking their asses here in the US.
'94 Clinton "assault weapons ban" allowed to expire. Heller. McDonald. All but the most progressive states are now shall-issue. Many states are passing constitutional carry. Millions of Democrats bought their first gun last year.
The corporate media is, shockingly, presenting a false narrative to you. The grabbers are objectively losing.
That doesn't mean we can go to sleep on the issue, but have some perspective.
Word.
We are right to fight against letting the mentally ill redefine society to make themselves more comfortable.
But when dealing with individual real humans so lost they want to alter their basic humanity, we should remember compassion.
Oooh, icky.
Someone used a term for a people I've been told is racist!
I don't have any reason to believe the person who used the term had ill intent towards any specific human, or the group he was referring to, in fact it wasn't considered offensive at the time...
But I've been told this is a bad word, and it makes me uncomfortable to see it written.
Words aren't racist
Only a speaker can be racist, and there is no reason to believe the good doctor was so.
We're not naturally perfect.
But we are born with a conscience. And most of us at least attempt to follow it.
Sometimes we fall off the path, but most of us feel guilt for that. If we were evil by nature, that guilt wouldn't exist.
Seeing humans as inherently evil comes from the ancient false dichotomy that insists that a thing must be either good or evil. Since it cannot be denied that all of us commit wrong, then we must be evil.
That is not reality. In reality, good and evil wrestle within each of us.
In my experience, most people, even those who have betrayed my trust in ways I struggle to forgive, have more of the good than the evil.
If you want to think of us as "struggling to rise above our animal nature", that's fine. But why do we struggle? Why would you feel safer locked in a cell with a random human than with a random lion?
We can all glimpse the light within ourselves, and the vast majority of us choose to seek that light.
I've learned the hard way that it is dangerous to assume goodness within others. I've also learned that my life is better for it, dangers and all.
That does seem to be the historical precedent...
I was pretty pissed when our man signed the bump stock ban.
Perhaps the insurrection should have commenced in 1934...
I honestly don't know what the answer is, but have a bias for peace.
I realize that bias can be used to gradually boil my bath. I struggle with the question of how we prevent that without becoming violent hotheads, ready to shoot at anyone who disagrees with us.
Furthermore, violent resistance is folly without the leadership to direct it judiciously. Otherwise, you might as well be an antifa mob, engaging in wanton destruction and bloodshed and accomplishing nothing but terrorizing your fellow citizens.
We cannot save our country by becoming the very monsters that threaten it...
My interpretation is that there is no way in hell they'll pass their gun control BS.
That we've actually been making (agonizingly slow) progress back toward freedom on 2A for a couple of decades now...
'94 Clinton gun bill allowed to expire. Heller. McDonald. All but the most progressive states are now shall-issue. Many states are passing constitutional carry legislation. Millions of Democrats bought their first gun last year.
It's not that the gun grabbers have given up, but they're objectively losing. The corporate media is trying to convince you otherwise.
Yeah, if they try to take our guns, we can't let them. That much I agree with. I just don't think they're capable at the moment.
The founders were not quick to violence.
They exhausted every peaceful means at their disposal before engaging in insurrection.
It was 6 years between the Boston massacre and the declaration.
Long suffering. Patient to a fault.
These are the attributes of a righteous movement of the people.
Don't mistake righteous men for pussies. They're not.
I'm not sure it started under Clinton.
I suspect it's always been this way.
In the age of the internet, more of us can tell.
Mccarthy wasn't wrong that Hollywood was full of commies.