In the annals of adaptive re-use I propose that every home be equipped with cast iron skillets. You can (if you are of that ilk) cook anything from a roast to vegetables to cornbread in them, and when your husband gets on your last nerve (as mine has) you can employ them as a disciplinary tool. (I believe in corporal punishment for grown adults.) Plus, even a good skillet costs far less than a good gun with all the ammo and licenses and camo.
I live in a state that is home to hunters. All kinds of people hunt here. Enjoy it. Part of how they were raised. yadda yadda. I have no problem with any of that. But where and why did all that morph into these Army of One nuts who sleep with one eye open because the government (and it's just a matter of time) is gonna get them?
In my limited experience, here's how the government of the US of A gets it's domestic enemies:
1. RICO (racketeering) prosecutions,
2. infiltration of organizations via wiretapping and informants thereby sowing the seeds of mistrust, e.g., COINTELPRO, and letting vanity, ego and paranoia do the rest,
3. persistent and relentless auditing by the IRS.
By the time the gov'mint whips out their guns, most of the damage is done.
So what if you haven't paid all your taxes? You just aren't that important, fella. Your hypervigilance about your own personal safety makes me wonder what you are so afraid of? But what is more worrisome to me than the kind of naivete that leads to thinking your door is the one getting kicked in at 4 am is the indifference of many of these folks to what we so quaintly used to call the common good. For them there are not even any arguable issues to be considered to balance the tension between individuals' possession (and use) of firearms and the safety of those who don't. And yeah, I've read the 2nd Amendment and could spend the rest of my life reading the judicial decisions that have flowed from it over the past 200+ years, but this has long since escaped being a jurisprudential argument and has become something else.
I live in a state that is home to hunters. All kinds of people hunt here. Enjoy it. Part of how they were raised. yadda yadda. I have no problem with any of that. But where and why did all that morph into these Army of One nuts who sleep with one eye open because the government (and it's just a matter of time) is gonna get them?
In my limited experience, here's how the government of the US of A gets it's domestic enemies:
1. RICO (racketeering) prosecutions,
2. infiltration of organizations via wiretapping and informants thereby sowing the seeds of mistrust, e.g., COINTELPRO, and letting vanity, ego and paranoia do the rest,
3. persistent and relentless auditing by the IRS.
By the time the gov'mint whips out their guns, most of the damage is done.
So what if you haven't paid all your taxes? You just aren't that important, fella. Your hypervigilance about your own personal safety makes me wonder what you are so afraid of? But what is more worrisome to me than the kind of naivete that leads to thinking your door is the one getting kicked in at 4 am is the indifference of many of these folks to what we so quaintly used to call the common good. For them there are not even any arguable issues to be considered to balance the tension between individuals' possession (and use) of firearms and the safety of those who don't. And yeah, I've read the 2nd Amendment and could spend the rest of my life reading the judicial decisions that have flowed from it over the past 200+ years, but this has long since escaped being a jurisprudential argument and has become something else.
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