RE: Just for fun dachshund meme on fetch.
Sadly, when one person gets some authority over a second person; they want more. Each time they gain more power, the second person is less free; and the first one still wants more! We are now in that spiral of power versus freedom.
Now the first person has decided that they are entitled to permanent use of that loaned power. This is the beginning of a permanent ruling class, or violence to remind the first that they are not rulers.
They do not seem to understand that:
He that complies against his will
is of his own opinion still
Which he may adhere to, yet disown,
For reasons to himself best known
Samuel Butler's (1612-1680) ginormous 17th-century poem Hudibras. Part III, Canto iii, lines 547-550.
Basically, using force to convert, does NOT actually convert! Only rational debate can do this; except they fear free thought and speech. Interesting mess!
The Founding Fathers here understood this problem in Human nature, and allowed for it in our Bill of Rights, by ensuring free speech, and ensuring we were armed, in case debate failed.
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True, this is why the power has been in limited hands and more and more people are losing freedom. Well said @smithlabs
I love the amount of effort you put in a single comment like I am so glad to be a friend here, makes me feel important :)
True, it just becomes a full bulk of mess and nothing else.
People before us had more wisdom, better knowledge and freedom to live the way they wanted. Now, I too want to be armed and learn how to shoot
I would be happy to teach you. I do Not know what the requirements are for firearms where you are located. Having one there might be a problem, I hope not!
They are good insurance against violence!
Steemit is really slow now, my 30 replies has dropped to 2, so I have time, ROFLOL! There is a lot more activity on weku these days.
:)>It shouldn't be a problem if it is gained with a proper license. But it will not be very common to own a gun here, most people don't.
True, we should be equipped to face any sort of danger.
Steemit is slow, I agree, the account building is too slow also. What about weku? It has a lot more happening there? Why don't you tag me to the interesting one's so that we can interact with more people there
A gun is only a tool, and the person carrying it is the intelligence that directs this tool.
If the intelligence directing the gun is Amoral or evil, the results will be bad; but if the intelligence guiding the use of that same gun is a good and Moral Man, it can be a blessing!
A man went into a Burger King years ago, and asked the counter girl for a date; she said No. He pulled out a pistol and shot at her nine times, hit her three. I Man with his family eating at the resteraunt pulled his concealed carry firearm, and shot him through the heart. The counter girl survived and recovered completely.
:)>True, its all in the hands of the man carrying it, I believe everything could be used in both positive and negative ways, it's just on us.
Wow that is a perfect example of how similar tool can be used both ways, I am sure that girl would've been saved by a miracle but that guy deserved the bullet in his heart, wait a minute, I don't think he had any
It is interesting that every time there is a shooting here, it is a liberal doing the shooting. It is usually a conservative who stops it with a defensive firearm. When Morals are relative, one can justify just about anything!
He did deserve to be shot! The difference was the defensive firearm was practiced with, so he only needed one shot! He saved that girl's life....
:)>True, we should not be liberal or conservative, we should just be nice people who have nice control over their emotions and who are never a threat to anybody else.
He saved the life of that poor girl, that is what matters more, we need more people like him who get up and react on time in such situations, frankly not many people would bother to react at most of the places if this happens again
I carry ao I am able to respond, all the while hoping to not need the pistol!
People who are willing to use violence to force others to follow their beliefs, are intrinsically evil, and we would be better off without them.
This fool had decided that if she would not date him, he would make sure she wouldn't date anyone else. Pure evil!
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