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RE: Gun rights or copsucking? Your choice.
The conversation has shifted yet again. The 2nd Amendment has never been about hunting or sport. It is literally a backstop for when the 1st Amendment fails. Seeing as how the '4th estate' has essentially become a mouthpiece for a singular type of thought (Statism), the 2nd Amendment matters now more than ever before. A handful of executives bottleneck the factual information you think you're receiving. People argue left or right, but don't even understand that the argument isn't about direction of government, but how much government is actually needed.
And, what those calling for the end of the Second Amendment don't understand is that the Second Amendment didn't create the right to own and to carry weapons, it simply made it a serious crime to violate that right. The right predates the first government and will still exist long after the last government is lost from memory in the mists of deep time.
I still remember that ridiculous line from Bowling for Columbine: "A Tec-9 30 bullet weapon is not used to kill deer..."
All I was thinking was: "Your point being what?"
True libertarianism needs to shift the conversation back to what people actually believe, no filler, no subterfuge. Get the ideologues out in the open and confront them directly. They want the 2md Amendment gone. Period. My counter to that is: What force in this country, if not the world, has the logistical, administrative, and kinetic means to do so? Screaming privileged children who heard some gunshots in an adjacent room are not going door to door to browbeat people into disarming. My fellow veterans will never disarm and my friends who are still active duty will never help an agency perform that function.