These two Black ladies gave the best speech at the NRA Convention.
"They don't need to rewrite the Constitution, they need to reread the Constitution".
"You need to come off that Democrat slave plantation" ,
Well that was fun. I like the new format - political speeches benefit greatly from a hype man.
This is why hope remains. Despite the spells and incantations emanating from the dark towers of sorcerers trying to enslave humanity, the light of truth persists, cutting through the haze (you'll forgive a little poetic prose here hahaha).
"Maybe if people had
self-control, we wouldn't need no
gun control."
This is profound beyond the reckoning of the person who spoke it, and (most likely) every other person sitting in that room. This points to morality as
the only viable solution to man's problems, period. Yes, I am speaking in the absolute, and no, most people are not willing to acknowledge this fact because it's hard work and does not abide shortcuts.
The immorality of man is the problem cited to justify the "necessity" of governmental control in broad terms; of law and authority in general. However, this is a band-aid non-solution that addresses only symptoms; effects, and not causes. Many still believe there is hope via the political process, but that's like expecting the Advil people to champion the cause of curing headaches. Real solutions are bad for the business of politics.
"Yeah, but it's delusional to expect that everyone is going to be moral". Well, **** it, then. Let's just rape and kill each other. If ya can't beat 'em, join 'em, right? NO. Them's are weasel words. The talk of cowards. Even if we don't have the power to change others (and there's much we can do to help them along), we have absolute authority over
ourselves. We
do have free will - contrary to what some would have us believe - and we
can choose morality over immorality, order over chaos.
If you understand that you have the unalienable right to own a gun, and that no man has a right to infringe upon that liberty, then to believe otherwise in regard to
any other liberty makes you either an unfortunate victim of an elaborate mind control con-job, or a slithering self-serving hypocrite. ALL liberties are subject to the same arguments used to defend gun rights. ANY support of a system that denies man's inherent rights is an act of outright evil.
The answers
do not lie in voting, protests, or legal recourse... in political rituals and ancient parchments. The answer lies in each of us committing to moral principles above all else - regardless of how inconvenient or contrary to the cultural paradigm that may be - and defending ourselves and our neighbors against those who refuse to embrace this commitment.