Folks are getting worried that the tide of Public Opinion is turning against the NRA and the Second amendment. *(See below from Gunmart.blog)*
This makes it hard for us to find the courage to stand up for our constitutional rights.
I have no doubt that our Founding Fathers found it equally contentious to defend their rights; are we not as faithful Americans as they were?
I think that the NRA and its members need to stand firm with their conviction that the Second Amendment is the codification of a basic human right.
There are a lot of Americans who have no use for their civil rights; but just because they do not value their freedoms, that's no reason why those freedoms shouldn't be defended by those of us who do not kneel to public opinion. These people are comfortable where they are, and because they do not USE some of their civil rights, they do not VALUE them.
I went to war ... unwillingly ... because my nation called upon me to perform my civil duty.
Now my nation (in the persons of weak-willy folks who are challenged with cave-in-itis) wonder whether there is an American Majority who thinks that the Second Amendment is passe' .... whether we should just do away with it and give in to the "popular opinion" that the right to defend our home and family is just a passing illusion.
My ancestors came to this country a century ago (often less) from England, Ireland, Scotland and Germany, seeking to be free. They were not hoping to defend their right to "Keep and Bear Arms"; they just wanted to live in a land where they had RIGHTS, rather than OBLIGATIONS.
Now it is up to me, and my cousins, to defend those rights.
If we yield to "Popular Opinion", we are no better than serfs; allowing other people who believe in State-ism to determine how we live, what rights we may enjoy.
You may not agree, but *_I_* believe that the Constitution is the living will of our ancestors, and if we fail to defend it then we again doom our children to serfdom.
The question of whether we fight for our rights, for our Second Amendment rights specifically, seems to be a contentious question this year. Too many Americans are too ready to give up their rights, because they don't exercise those rights ... and so, it's not an important issue to them.
Don't listen to them.
They don't care about their rights, they just want to be left alone in their servitude to people too fearful that their "permissions" are too difficult a responsibility. Many Americans don't trust themselves with the responsibility to judiciously "Keep and Bear Arms", and so they don't trust the rest of us with that RIGHT.
The Second Amendment was not acknowledged by the Constitution so we could hunt; it was acknowledged (not granted!) so that we could defend ourselves against a government which had become too burdensome, too arbitrary, to allow us our RIGHT to become Citizens ... not "Subjects".
America was founded in Rebellion to a British King.
In the words an A-rated movie: "I don't have to show you no stinkin' badges!"
Neither do you.
We're Americans.
The NRA better go on the offensive, and they better do it now! - Gunmart Blog:
I think this is also going to be the moment where we see what the NRA is truly made of. Are they willing to throw anything else under the bus to passify short term manufactured outrage like they did with bump stocks? Or will they give the gun grabbers the middle finger and say ‘come and take it’ like they did after newtown. Politicians are watching. Make no mistake, EVERY politician in Washington wants America disarmed. They are just waiting for the NRA to signal that they will protect them during re-election before they sign that bill. Now we are going to find out if the NRA itself is the slippery slope that we are so worried about.
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