Subj : Re: Parenting
To   : Lee Lofaso
From : Randall Schad
Date : Mon Sep 09 2024 23:25:53

 LL> Traditional values are all the rage in Russia, with at least 17
 LL> Britons and 2 Americans having relocated there due to immigration
 LL> reform in that country making it possible for them to relocate.

This made me snort my soda out my nose. Thank you.

 LL> It is easy access to guns. And type of guns used. On the second
 LL> school day of the year, a shooting occurred in Georgia, killing four
 LL> people - two adults and two children. The shooter surrendered, and
 LL> was charged as an adult - at age 14. How many more unnecessary
 LL> killings have to happen before this pandemic is brought to an end?
 LL> Children killing children (and adults) for sport. WE LOVE OUR GUNS!
 LL> 
 LL> We love our guns. Doesn't matter who kills who. Or how many folks
 LL> get killed. Guns are a sacred right. According to the 2nd Amendment.
 LL> Bang Bang Your Dead I Never Pulled The Trigger Alec Baldwin ...

I 100% get your point... My position on this doesn't align real with "taking sides" though.

I do believe in the _purpose_ of the Second Amendment. I don't believe it was instituted to allow me to carry an arsenal into McDonald's in the off chance I'd get to mow down someone else with an assault rifle trying to steal a bag of fries, though.

The point was to keep the government in check. To remind those holding positions of power that this is OUR government, and you can't run away with it and subjugate us.

To that end, whatever weaponry the government has, we should also have. Unfortunately, the forefathers didn't have a crystal ball and couldn't have ever imagined the kind of destructive power mankind would later invent.

By the Second Amendment, I should be building missile silos between my tank garages. This isn't hyperbole. I'm not joking at all when I say we really should have been doing just that. The goverment lost respect for the citizenry long, long ago.

And to THAT end, the Second Amendment has lost its relevance. We gave it away. We continue to do it more disservice by bickering amongst ourselves about which specific gun, stock, magazine, or attachment should be legal and which we're willing to part ways with.

To think that a citizen-led militia stands a chance today is beyond delusion. So the options are to either fix the root of the problem (and I'm not about to go there), or to make society a safer place to exist. The rest of the free world seems to have figured that part out. I'm flummoxed as to why we can't.

Man, I'm really sorry... My soapbox is creaking under my weight.

RS

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