Do these images bother you?
OK, how about this image?
What do all of these images have in common? Well, depending on how you look at it, you may think there is no connection.
Ahhh, but there is. Each image represents a core value of our Constitution. Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of the Press and the Right to Bear Arms. Each of these is a cornerstone of our Bill of Rights.
The first three stir some, if little, debate. The last one can downright get ugly at times.
Well, I'm here to tell ya, that if we argued and debated as much about the other ones as we did the Second Amendment, this country would be a better place.
Recently, at several health care rallies, regular citizens carried their firearms in support of the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms. They did so in States where "open carry" is LEGAL. Now, none of them were ever near the Chosen One. They were in designated Public Areas well outside the town hall meetings. Even the Secret Service said they were not worried.
But anti-gun proponents say they nut jobs by bringing a firearm. To me, that sounds nothing more than pure anti-Americanism if I've ever heard it. Imagine that, people are mad at me for exercising my CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. I never see anyone yelling at me for reading the paper, or praying, or having an open debate or speech. If that is the case, no one was yelling about having a health care forum. Oh yes, they were yelling AT the forum about health care, but they were not yelling about the actual contstruct of having a forum. No one ever said, "you can go to the forum, but you cannot speak at all". That's what this country is built on. That would be completely un-American.
Oh, but wait, people are starting to call us nut jobs and Nazis and Brownshirts for talking out against health care. I do not hear that about anyone talking in favor of it. But I digress.
It's also a case of personal responsibility. People are running around screaming "He has a gun!!" Oh my God, the horror!! He could kill someone!!
Puhlleeeze, gimme a break. Nothing ever happened people!! These are responsible citizens carrying their firearms securely in a NON-THREATENING MANNER but for some reason people get the heebee jeebees.
Ahh, but something could happen. Yes, someone with NO personal responsibility could grab the gun. But of course, the gun owner would be blamed for having it, not the idiot who took it.
Personal responsibility is like my beloved 1968 Plymouth GTX.
A classic memory of my youth Out of reach for all but a few who choose to want to relive it again......
