We are tasked with a very difficult endeavor. How do we help the average person that has been brainwashed by mainstream media and the public school system understand that any further gun control would be detrimental to our country.
We must show them facts and try to teach them about how this country was first founded and that the traditions we have here and our Constitution is the reason why we have all of the other freedoms besides what is outlined in the 2nd Amendment. No other country besides the United States has freedom of speech. Ask yourself why that might be?
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
- Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776
The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824
"On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823
We need to start having real conversations with people we work with, friends, family etc. Exposing them to common sense and teaching them why that our rights should never been given up or bargained away no matter what. It's time to wake up people.
~L