crzy jo,
Fat Hobbits does NOT agree with you. He was being sarcastic....
You know, folks, the Second Amendment isn't going anywhere, which I think is a good thing. I believe in the adage: "That government functions best that is most accountable to the people." That means local and state is better than federal, and federal elected is better than federal bureaucrat. In Waco, TX in 1993 our federal bureaucracy illegally used military weapons against private citizens, ironically enough, in an effort to deprive those citizens of their potentially illegal automatic weapons. (Too bad the local sheriff was not consulted to substantiate those allegations.) More people died during that "law enforcement action" than in all the school shootings Freeman cited in his social commentary--combined.
The most amazing thing to me is that Dolphin Jim and the originator of this thread actually believe that politicians today could actually hope to replace the 2nd A with something better. Who are you guys kidding? Politicians today don't do anything for the good of the country--anything they do is to get more people to vote for them to keep them in their cushy jobs. And you know what? That's what we expect of them. Name a politician today who actually sacrifices to serve his country. If Congress doesn't do anything for the next 4 years, I would initially say that's a good thing. Then I would realize that the ultimate power to create new policies would then be assumed by the bureaucrats who run the various land-grubbing, power-mad agencies who we can't vote out, so I guess that I would rather Congress do something. Preferably something smart, but I doubt I'll ever see that again.
No, I don't believe the Founding Fathers were Prophets --not profits-- who foresaw everything that was going to happen 200 years into the future, but they knew they were creating a special document (try reading The Federalist Papers, the best commentary on the section of the Constitution called The Bill of Rights. What's that? Can't understand the vocabulary words used in The Federalist Papers? And you're trying to argue Constitutional importance on these boards? stay there a minute, I'll go get my high schooler to explain the big words to you. We home school a |
