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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Nope. Never have. Once again, please stop pigeonholing me with the rest of the Branch Nutjobians here. I don't have a cool armband and I don't wear my sunglasses indoors. As far as I'm concerned, guns are a privilege in the US... a privilege I've totally indulged in like a fat kid left alone with a cookie jar. Mmm... guns.
(lots of personal verbiage here)
Rights are great and all... but every right has an endless fine-print listing of "BUTs" and "EXCEPT WHENs." tagged on the end that gets added every time another veneer-equipped suit takes office or terrorists attack. Guns have it the worst, I figure. Everybody likes to talk and read stuff and all those other Bill 'o Rights joys... but guns are controversial because terrorists (and racial minorities) use guns to kill white people and that's scary. How do we deal with fear? Give more power to the government to "keep us safe." I like the placebo effect here.
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I don't know... I've taken a few law classes and every PhD and lawyer I've spoken with has told me the same thing about our "rights" in the US of A:
"Law (and your rights) is whatever the court says it is... and as long as you believe you're free, they get what they want."
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When people have to ask you to explain your point over and over again... it might be because they're dummies... or it might be because you need to rethink the presentation.
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It's kind of funny thinking about this. In the past, we actually had rights once. Then when those rights got included to groups of people a majority of elitists didn't think should have them, they all became burdened with the reasonableness standard. Then, when some people actually try to put forth the argument that if we truly believe we have the right, we don't need to justify it, just do it. Well horseshit. What happens to the person who says 'fuck it, its my right', and then runs afoul of some peoples 'reasonableness'? They get fucked by a system that others no longer liked because it didn't suit them. Thats why I say shoot the fuckers.
Tired of this reasonableness shit, social contract stupidity that gets defined by people who usually know crap about the subject anyway, just decide based on their bullshit emotions, and THEN, when someone actually dares challenge the so called establishment to assert their rights, they get called 'branch nutjobians'.
This thing called freedom died decades ago, most people just don't know it yet. Seems they are quite happy with the illusion of it though.