They lost me at:
Overall, the ACLU does not generally engage in either side of the gun control issue.
Except when they do.
“Pro-liberty.” Someone is in dire need of a dictionary.
In particular, those who support expansive gun rights as a protection against excessive government power should strongly consider how much government intrusion and expanded power they’re willing to trade for those rights.
And what kinds of intrusions might those be?
- Increased physical searches, including ever-expanding checkpoints, bag searches, magnetometers, body scanners, pat downs, and more. Call it the “airportization of American life.”
- More surveillance.
- A growth in databases, watch lists, investigations, and background checks that set the government rummaging around in our personal lives.
- More armed police and guards at more and more civilian gatherings, potentially down to every Little League game and church picnic…
- More police shootings.
Oh. Wait. That’s exactly what would be needed to enforcement the sort of “pro-liberty” infringements the American Criminal Life Union wants. You know: NYC stop&frisk, which they hated. FISA warrants, which they hated. Armed guards… well, the ACLU like “gun-free” zones. And do you suppose armed criminals avoiding arrest under the ACLU’s new “pro-liberty” victim disarmament laws might be involved in the occasional police shooting?
Idiots.
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Giving up liberty to have liberty is not liberty!
Or to quote a famous intellectual, Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Sad that the very thing that our founding fathers sought, namely freedom, is now the very thing that those on the left are willing to not bargain away, but to give away at no cost, in the hopes of benevolence by their rulers.
One more quote, this time from Voltaire. ” It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”
It is sad to look up quotes on freedom, and to see those who have quotes on it. People like Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Madonna, Saul Alinsky, George H.W. Bush. All people who at one time or another have advocated for the imprisonment or death of another, who only wanted to be free themselves. Sad, and yet not surprising, given human nature. It is natural to seek selfish goals, and unnatural to instead allow everyone to seek their own goals, so long as they don’t interfere with our own freedom.
I guess this is why true freedom, or liberty, is both so valuable, and so rare.
There premise is that with more firearms ownership and carry that more police and state monitoring is needed.
The OPPOSITE is true. We will need less governmental intrusion and rights violations when everyone is armed.
As usual, the ACLU has is wrong.