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Once upon a time, Americans understood the relationship between liberty and responsibility. For every human right there is responsibility, responsibility for the consequences of exercising that right. Rights and responsibilities are like the obverse sides of the same coin. I wonder some times how many, even here on RP, understand that relationship and are teaching it to their children. You better. It sure as hell isn't being taught in schools, not these days.
Gun Control
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Responsibility
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The gun-grabbers are convinced that they, and they alone, are the intelligent, wise, possessors of TRUTH in our society, and so it is their natural duty to act as our parents.
Yep. Just helping out all us of lesser intelligence. It's a burden the self-declared "better people" have taken upon themselves.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
—C. S. Lewis, “God in the Dock”
Yep. Just helping out all us of lesser intelligence. It's a burden the self-declared "better people" have taken upon themselves.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
—C. S. Lewis, “God in the Dock”
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My son was brought up around different forms of weapons, and my grandson is also.
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