Comments on: What are People Thinking? http://www.shootingfromtheright.com/what-are-people-thinking/ Conservative blogging with real sense Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Zemack http://www.shootingfromtheright.com/what-are-people-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Zemack Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:01:25 +0000 http://www.shootingfromtheright.com/?p=36#comment-226 It is a sad and dangerous fact that most Americans have lost the knowledge of the concept of inalienable individual rights, the basic founding principle of the United States, and what it takes to keep them. While the right to gun ownership is not a primary right, it is derived from those primaries, which are life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. I have never owned a gun, and I see no reason for ever owning one in the future. But it is still my right. Do I want to forfeit that right, just because I happen not to exercise it? NO!! As Kris correctly points out, freedom of speech (or any other right) could be next. Liberty never disappears overnight. It vanishes in a steady erosion of individual self-determination surrendered by the people to the state bit by bit in the name of good “intentions.” It is a process that has been going on in America for about a hundred years. It is the road to dictatorship. The only way freedom can be preserved is for every citizen to be willing to stand up and defend not only his own rights, but all peoples’ rights. Those who would vote away the rights of others, should know that they are voting away their own, as well. It is a sad and dangerous fact that most Americans have lost the knowledge of the concept of inalienable individual rights, the basic founding principle of the United States, and what it takes to keep them. While the right to gun ownership is not a primary right, it is derived from those primaries, which are life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.

I have never owned a gun, and I see no reason for ever owning one in the future. But it is still my right. Do I want to forfeit that right, just because I happen not to exercise it? NO!! As Kris correctly points out, freedom of speech (or any other right) could be next. Liberty never disappears overnight. It vanishes in a steady erosion of individual self-determination surrendered by the people to the state bit by bit in the name of good “intentions.” It is a process that has been going on in America for about a hundred years. It is the road to dictatorship.

The only way freedom can be preserved is for every citizen to be willing to stand up and defend not only his own rights, but all peoples’ rights. Those who would vote away the rights of others, should know that they are voting away their own, as well.

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