The Bill of Rights was about freedom; about civil liberties and preventing the new government from doing what virtually every other government in history has done: Treat them as privileges subject to the whims of monarchs and lawmakers.
As has been said many times before, freedom isn’t free and it falls on the people to bear the cost. One of those costs is eternal vigilance. Today, the most direct threats to our liberties come from within and especially from from those who regard themselves as benefactors, protecting us from the dangers only they perceive.
Political correctness, WOKE, and all the other restrictions on our freedom of expression led to Joe Biden’s short-lived disinformation task force. Even comedians were muzzled, lest they make a joke that might offend someone. Every joke has a butt; humor is often cruel. In 1956, the late Isaac Asimov penned a short story entitled “Jokester” that explored dark humor.
Freedom of expression, including both spoken and written forms, is vital to the freedom of the people. All censorship, no matter how well-intended, threatens it.
The right to keep and bear arms is also vital to freedom. The Founders of our nation strongly opposed the concentration of armed power in the federal government. They were well aware of how the Crown and Parliament had eviscerated the right to arms in the British Bill of Rights of 1689 and intended to disarm the colonists, as well.
The gun control movement threatens our freedom. Not only the right to possess weapons of our own choosing but the freedom to defend ourselves, our families, and our homes.
Instead, they want us to become dependent of the government and its police. The same police whom courts have repeatedly said do not have a constitutional duty to protect the individual citizen. The same police whom have an average response time of eight minutes to even high-priority calls. And the same police so many gun control fans wanted to defund.
After Jack Wilson ended a ended a 2019 church shooting in six seconds, Michael Bloomberg, the godfather of gun control, was asked for a comment. Bloomberg said they should have waited for police.
If the gun control movement had any real interest in saving lives; the agenda would look completely different and so would the propaganda. It should be clear to everyone they’re attacking freedom: They don’t want the responsibility freedom requires and they don’t want anyone else to have it, either.
They decry “gun violence” but do nothing about it. And they call this insanity ‘commonsense’.
