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In reply to the discussion: If Ammo Were Regulated As Sudafed… [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)I know, many people want the government to regulate everything from carrying water onto a plane to what size soda you can drink and where you can drink and who you can hang out with.
But some of us don't see the need to empower them more and more.
The founding fathers tried to make things so that the government was more restricted, not the people - with good reason.
Now maybe you like to go to sleep at night knowing that a bunch of your fellow citizens are seen as better than you by calling themselves government employees - and you might only trust them and think the rest of us are out to get you. I call it being paranoid of everyone but the government. But then we are herded to believe we are all terrorists and maniacal killers and those same people use magical government powers when they get hired and the demons are driven out by their employer.
Own a gun? You are going to kill someone, any day now....Have a bottle of lotion? You plan on blowing up a plane. The only people were taught to trust anymore are the few.
Just like they have worked hard to convince us our education system sucks. EVERY single politician since I have been alive has said that they would fix the education system. So we constantly believe there are problems because we told someone will fix it for us.
We believe every human on the planet, unless they work for someone special, should not own a gun cause any day now they will shoot you up.
And then you look at what percent of gun owners do here. Then look at how many in the government have used guns to hurt others - and you start to see who is really harming others with them.
But fear sells, and people lap it up like dogs.