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Polimath (and others) are feeling the same oppressive weight of the government boot on their necks that America’s gun owners have been feeling ever since the introduction of the Sullivan Act.
“Just give up a little bit of your rights, and you’ll make the rest of us feel safer” has been the motto of the gun control movement since day one. Now that same logic, (if you want to equate emotion of feeling safe as logic) is being applied to public health as a whole, and people aren’t liking what they’re hearing.
Stephen Kruiser once said that firearms are the gateway drug to freedom. In this case, however, firearms ownership is the canary in the coal mine. What big government and runaway political corruption have been doing to our freedoms under the Second Amendment, they’re now doing to every other civil right as well.
Welcome to the party, everyone. Don’t say we never tried to warn you.
Published in Guns
The challenge is, of course, how to claw back the rights that have been compromised by the government once they have been lost?
I think Guns are going to be needed for that :(
Ultimately, yes.
Back in the beginning of the Covid debacle, they told us that masks were not effective. Then they told us that they lied to us for our own good – that they were just trying to prevent hoarding that would make it impossible for medical personnel to get masks. Was the first stand taken in a rare moment of honesty that would have reduced the control narrative that they were trying to implement?
There is a thirsty tree out there…
Exactly. Government already doesn’t trust ordinary citizens to make decisions concerning their lives (vaccines being the latest). So how can government trust citizens to own firearms? To teach their children (home schooling)? To pray (to a God other than government)?
The whole masking bait-and-switcheroo presents a syllogism with no positive conclusions respecting the health/science/medical community:
The hardest three words for humans, much less unquestionable experts in their fields, to say is “I was wrong”. The second hardest is “I am sorry”.
Wait until parents figure out that they have lost their kids one grade at a time.
Parents should be entitled to show up at school as silent observers whenevr they want. Let there always be a chair in the back of the room. No disruptions, no comments. Just observe. This is so reasonable that it should be beyond debate. Instead, it is beneath discussion.