And the country. I’m old, but not so old I walked the prairies with the Calvary. That said- we tend to forget that the “Wild West” days of of spitting and leaches and sheriffs and lawless towns was the late 1800’s still. Less wild than the mid 1800’s- but the Marshals and bandits, prospectors and inventors of the age in their 20’s and 30’s were the same guys in politics and military command in WW1. The soldiers of WW1 were largely the same age range for WW2. We are not so far removed from those times, only a few generations of adults stand between a world without the telegraph and the world today.
The right to arms isn’t some antique from the 1700’s- it was a fundamental need through much of our history right into the modern age. Well into the 1950’s and even 1960’s there were plenty of places in the US that we’re almost unreachable by any means. We STILL have towns and communities without mail, and places where without satellite there is no internet or cellular data. The interstates, improved transportation, and developments through the 70’s on have continued to “make the world smaller and our reach larger” but literally millions of Americans still live in rural and wild areas and rely on guns for protection from wildlife, hunting, and protection where services like law enforcement are not to be found easily.
And while one may not be hunting game to survive in the jungles of Central Park New York- the basic principal of freedom and... well... anything can happen. This pandemic shows us- and it easily could have been or could get worse. But it came out of nowhere- and a year ago, you’d be seen as crazy for worrying about a toilet paper shortage or getting shot over asking someone to stand 6 feet away.
Here we are. You’re crazy until you aren’t. Of all the things that COULD happen- the right to arms is designed to make sure every American can choose to have the option of suddenly shit goes south in a way that maybe- like this pandemic- comes out of nowhere and is surrealistically unfathomable.
My ancestors were disarmed before they were slaughtered. Much like German jews, Soviet Ukrainians, Cuban land owners, and millions of others in the 20th century.
The German government disarmed people to keep the Nazis down, the Nazis came to power and ensured only they were armed.
The Red Russians seized weapons after the people's revolution, not even a generation later they orchestrated famines and kept the victims from fleeing.
And even now, we teeter precariously close to fascism or anarchy depending on the day and state.
In Canada we just terrorize anyone masquerading as a storm trooper, hold them at gunpoint, and make sure they regret ever thinking they could do something as psychotic as hold a plastic gun.
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Gotta nip these revolutionaries in the bud to keep em in place
This entire century in general was a age of madlads. The Founding Fathers may have drank a little too much pirate rum and snorted a little freedom, suddenly there's English tea in the harbor and talk about gun confiscation. Mad times all around.
Well can anyone explain this? Is he one of the founding fathers? I don't think they wrote the Constitution along with the amendments that will be absurd, or am I wrong ?
The German government disarmed people to keep the Nazis down, the Nazis came to power and ensured only they were armed.
The Red Russians seized weapons after the people's revolution, not even a generation later they orchestrated famines and kept the victims from fleeing.
And even now, we teeter precariously close to fascism or anarchy depending on the day and state.
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Gotta nip these revolutionaries in the bud to keep em in place