Posted on May 1, 2015
Are we slowly losing our constitutional rights?
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I feel as each day passes, Americans are being slowly "conditioned" into a state where our constitutional rights are little to none.
Talk of gun control is absurd to me; it's obvious that the 2nd Amendment's original intent is to allow Americans the right to protect themselves with their own firearm without fear of repercussion. I don't understand how the argument, "Guns kill people." is legitimate to anyone because mentally unstable people kill people.. a weapon is a tool; an extension of a man's will. If the man chooses to kill someone, how can you justify punishing an entire nation by the actions of a few morons?
Just my $.02. There are a bunch of examples, but I wanted to get the input of the RP community. Am I imagining this?
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Talk of gun control is absurd to me; it's obvious that the 2nd Amendment's original intent is to allow Americans the right to protect themselves with their own firearm without fear of repercussion. I don't understand how the argument, "Guns kill people." is legitimate to anyone because mentally unstable people kill people.. a weapon is a tool; an extension of a man's will. If the man chooses to kill someone, how can you justify punishing an entire nation by the actions of a few morons?
Just my $.02. There are a bunch of examples, but I wanted to get the input of the RP community. Am I imagining this?
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Nope. Not at all. We've just mentally rationalized EVERYTHING we want or crave to be a right somehow. Regardless of the topic, any new law/action will inevitably have a group screaming about their rights being taken away.
Ben & Jerry's discontinuing a specific flavor? Bet your buttons the media will somehow run stories about the President burning constitutions while holding Ben and/or Jerry at gunpoint...
We've become a society of Chicken Littles...
Ben & Jerry's discontinuing a specific flavor? Bet your buttons the media will somehow run stories about the President burning constitutions while holding Ben and/or Jerry at gunpoint...
We've become a society of Chicken Littles...
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SFC Michael Hasbun
I'm sorry, but did the illuminati send their death armies out of the FEMA camps and confiscate everyone's weapons while I had my back turned? You haven't lost anything. Admittedly you're being told it's imminent, nothing stirs up profits for arms manufacturers quite like paranoia. What is it Fox News advertisers like to say? The economy is collapsing, so buy all our gold?!
You're being made a fool for profit. Nothing more..
You're being made a fool for profit. Nothing more..
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SGT Joseph Schmalzel
Someone promoted this guy beyond SPC. They should be ashamed of themselves. Hitler in the making.
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SFC Michael Hasbun
LOL, you're adorable. When you have nothing of value to contribute, just bring up Hitler. An internet tactic as old as time... (well, the 40's anyway)..
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As regards the 2d Amendment, the state militias were converted to the NG and the USAR formed as a result of the Dick Act of 1903. There had been a colonial militia since the first muster in 1620 and the colonial militias had been mandated by the Militia Act of the crown in 1652.
Th NG by the way has both a state AND federal mission.
Th NG by the way has both a state AND federal mission.
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No actually we are not....too many people have become constitutional lawyers without knowing a damned thing. I'm not talking real attorneys here, I'm talking about those who read blogs, who listen and watch media with its own agenda.
The present administration has been in office 6 years and we still have our guns.
Let me turn the question back at you. What rights have you lost?
The present administration has been in office 6 years and we still have our guns.
Let me turn the question back at you. What rights have you lost?
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SPC Patrick Caldwell
LTC Bink Romanick, I've lost my freedom to drive freely throughout this great land without being harassed by police officers who seem to think I'm some criminal (not that I drive recklessly in any way). I fail to be given any probable cause for being pulled over and ask for their supervisors to come out so I can talk to them, and they refuse and tell me they'll 'let me off with a warning'. Okay, a warning for what..?
I have to plan to go around illegal (and unconstitutional) "drunk-driving checkpoints" because the police have no probable cause to request my ID nor are they legally allowed to obtain a blood sample or search my vehicle without my permission. I've called police stations and asked their sheriffs who authorized such checkpoints, and they couldn't give me a straight answer. They'd do much better at stopping drunk-driving if they hung around night clubs and bars instead of wasting the time of law-abiding citizens with their "checkpoint", mainly used to find people with no license/registration/insurance documentation, a headlight/taillight out, or some other reason to bully them. Not that all police officers are corrupt or bad.. on the contrary. But this country is becoming more and more of a police state as the days go by, and I know I'm not just seeing things.
I have to plan to go around illegal (and unconstitutional) "drunk-driving checkpoints" because the police have no probable cause to request my ID nor are they legally allowed to obtain a blood sample or search my vehicle without my permission. I've called police stations and asked their sheriffs who authorized such checkpoints, and they couldn't give me a straight answer. They'd do much better at stopping drunk-driving if they hung around night clubs and bars instead of wasting the time of law-abiding citizens with their "checkpoint", mainly used to find people with no license/registration/insurance documentation, a headlight/taillight out, or some other reason to bully them. Not that all police officers are corrupt or bad.. on the contrary. But this country is becoming more and more of a police state as the days go by, and I know I'm not just seeing things.
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I think so. There are many examples, but here is one that caught my eye this morning . . .
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mom-lunch-shamed-school-packing-oreos-daughter/story?id=30674158
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mom-lunch-shamed-school-packing-oreos-daughter/story?id=30674158
Mom Says She Was 'Lunch Shamed' by School for Packing Oreos
Leeza Pearson got a stern note from her school about her daughter's lunch.
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GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad
Frankly, what riles me about this story is the overreach of the school officials to the point that they are dictating to the parent what constitutes an acceptable lunch. I find the whole thing totally unacceptable.
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This is the result of people being 1 brain washed and 2 not accept the constitution for what it is
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"Hate speech" is another erosion, this time of our First Amendment. What used to be a matter of bad taste and ignorance is now a matter of law. And who gets to decide what is "hate speech"? The government of course, the very body that the Bill of Rights is designed to check.
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When the Bosnian issue broke out and like many Americans I wondered why we were there?
I heard so many comments about the conflict. Why are we there, its not our fight, etc. They were all excellent questions.
Then our unit was deployed to Bosnia.
Found out why we were there: Because the European community asked for us to aid them in the matter.
When our interpreter explained to me the importance of the weapons they received after a trainl was derailed, he said " We had weapons to fight"
Then the ding bell went off in my head about so many who question the need for the right to keep and bear arms in the US.
This interpreter was a young boy when his country broke up and he nor his family were the cause. They found their self being slaughtered by their enemies, THEIR GOVERNMENT[S] and watched their neighborhoods, home and friends systematically herded and murdered by the thousands and hundreds. " We had weapons to fight." i.e. THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS - TO PROTECT YOUR HOME AND FAMILY.
NOTE: The Zimmerman Telegraph, The Germans sent this telegraph to Mexican Government and sought Mexico to aid the Germans invasion of the US. The Mexican Government wrote back; "WE DO NOT SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE AND THEY ALL HAVE GUNS."
This is the spirit of a world that seeks to bring America away from her governing documents and her faith, and as we have witnessed, they believe and cause many of us to believe - as Hitler and Japan did, they will win.
Fact is, they have already LOST. This is how we win.
We hold tight and do not despair, and we pray, and we uphold our faith, our document[s] they seek to and do for the most part in their mind: Destroy - did not Hitler, voted TIME MAGIZINE man of the year during the build up of his reign of HORROR?
As Hitler, they are a FAD. All FADS vanish and go away.
I heard so many comments about the conflict. Why are we there, its not our fight, etc. They were all excellent questions.
Then our unit was deployed to Bosnia.
Found out why we were there: Because the European community asked for us to aid them in the matter.
When our interpreter explained to me the importance of the weapons they received after a trainl was derailed, he said " We had weapons to fight"
Then the ding bell went off in my head about so many who question the need for the right to keep and bear arms in the US.
This interpreter was a young boy when his country broke up and he nor his family were the cause. They found their self being slaughtered by their enemies, THEIR GOVERNMENT[S] and watched their neighborhoods, home and friends systematically herded and murdered by the thousands and hundreds. " We had weapons to fight." i.e. THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS - TO PROTECT YOUR HOME AND FAMILY.
NOTE: The Zimmerman Telegraph, The Germans sent this telegraph to Mexican Government and sought Mexico to aid the Germans invasion of the US. The Mexican Government wrote back; "WE DO NOT SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE AND THEY ALL HAVE GUNS."
This is the spirit of a world that seeks to bring America away from her governing documents and her faith, and as we have witnessed, they believe and cause many of us to believe - as Hitler and Japan did, they will win.
Fact is, they have already LOST. This is how we win.
We hold tight and do not despair, and we pray, and we uphold our faith, our document[s] they seek to and do for the most part in their mind: Destroy - did not Hitler, voted TIME MAGIZINE man of the year during the build up of his reign of HORROR?
As Hitler, they are a FAD. All FADS vanish and go away.
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The fact of the matter is this. Humans are born with rights. I raised my hand 5 times for them. Go ahead and try to take one. Better come with a lot of force. I will die for them. As for the 2A. I can arm my whole street. Yes we are the militia. As per code. All males of military age.
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I think we are slowly losing them. Most of it happens without us even having a clue of what is going on. Sad really.
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6 deployments "6" and each time I came home I would wake up looking for my firearm. We were surrounded by armed Americans doing difficult things. Firearms are tools nothing more or less. Hammers and baseball bats are used in more killings.
I raised my hand 5 times to an oath that I believe in.
I love shooting in USPSA it calms my nerves. Too bad we have so many restrictions. Suppressors is a big one following full auto. If I can't be armed the same as in combat its actually a violation of US law. Look it up. All military aged males shall posses equal arms as the military.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
The militia is the people.
I raised my hand 5 times to an oath that I believe in.
I love shooting in USPSA it calms my nerves. Too bad we have so many restrictions. Suppressors is a big one following full auto. If I can't be armed the same as in combat its actually a violation of US law. Look it up. All military aged males shall posses equal arms as the military.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
The militia is the people.
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