Coming To America
Unless a principled stance is taken, unless man’s rational and natural rights to life, liberty, and property are defended consistently, this is exactly what will come to America:
I am very concerned this will happen here, not in an isolated sense, but because a ban on weapons will expedite further erosion of our freedoms.
This threat is only a symptom of the underlying issue, our failure to properly regard individual rights. Despite a large segment of our population who’ll resist, the reason organizations such as the NRA will prove to be impotent in the long term is that they don’t crusade on consistent principles, and they’re really only fighting to rearrange Titanic Deck Chairs.
What value is there in a right to a firearm (a specific piece of property) if individual construction is criminal and oppressive regulation and taxes eliminate manufacturing of such property? Many of the same people who’ll boldly proclaim their right to firearms will waffle on (or concede) the “right” to health care, minimum wage, education, or any other phony privilege based on force. Failing to abstract, they won’t object on principle to government intrusion into private business, but fail to see how such injustice threatens them when used for ends they disagree with.
Those who seek to destroy this country, seek to disarm it—intellectually and physically. - Philosophy: Who Needs It
I’m most intimidated by gun bans because a government that would ban and confiscate weapons is far enough down the road to tyranny that economic stagnation, and the desperation and violence which accompany it, can’t be far behind.
Desperate and violent times are when I want to be able to defend my family and myself the most.
