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RE: The Bump Stock Ban is Official. What Now?
I'm less worried about this latest attempt at playing tinpot dictator than I am the bulleted points you raise. This ban won't survive the courts (SCOTUS is now even more pro-2nd amendment than when they handed down the Heller decision) but the general malaise that infects the body politic scares me. We've managed to turn politics into a spectator sport and nobody seems to worry about rights or reason or principles so long as their team is winning.
Unfortunately, the fact that these violations must now rely on the courts demonstrates a weakness of politics as a force to prevent tyrants from over-reaching. The courts have upheld far too many trespasses as it is now.
That weakness is part and parcel of politics and part of the reason for the courts' existence. The thing is we either have to find some way to cure said weakness, trust in the courts, or go the 'tree of liberty must be refreshed' route. Or just accept that our stable genius is doing a great job and we have nothing to worry about.
Unfortunately, what better options do we have? Trust in the Court and keep your powder dry!
The courts are part of the corrupt political system. Don't trust them.
Lol, that was something of a jest. Politics and trust should never intersect. Given the current political state, the courts are our only hope of stopping tyrannical actions short of resorting to extralegal means. Should we prepare to take up arms?
Yes and no. Armed revolutions to overthrow governments tend to result in stronger, more oppressive governments regardless of who wins the revolution. However, bad laws should be disobeyed and broken, and it may be necessary to exercise your right to self-defense should someone seek to enforce those bad laws. A free society is built from the ground up by free people, not handed down from on high by a benevolent government, because governments are always built on a foundation of violated liberty no matter what the rhetoric says.