Originally Posted by
fedempl 
As a federal employee I can tell one thing, a smaller government is not necessarily better. I work within DoD and my agency downsized at one point because of that idea. When the agency was at the level Congress wanted us at we were dangerously close to mission failure. That means we were almost to the point that our servicemen were not getting the services they needed to accomplish their mission. Now, a smaller government is nice as long as the government can still do the job it is supposed to do.
Please see glocknload's post immediately following yours for my response to the above. No need to change a thing, I just sign onto it. But....
Originally Posted by
fedempl Too much of a radical change will not be good for anyone. This country needs a change, no argument there, the question is how can it be done to ensure all of our rights are maintained. Up to and including our 2nd amendment.
The above is questionable on several levels. One, the bolded text suggests that you believe that our rights are currently maintained. Is my reading of that premise correct?
Two, if you believe that all of our rights need to be maintained, why would you separate out the 2A specifically and assign a different kind of "level" of right to it by saying "up to" the 2A? It's not the redundancy in the way you stated it that concerns me, it's the distinction that you draw between the 2A and every other right, which is a classically liberal position that attempts to reduce the unambiguous, unalienable, God-given rights that all 10 of the BoR amendments were intended to acknowledge as natural law, into something amorphous, subject to wild flights of interpretive conjecture born of a fantasy about the intent of the Framers to create a "living, breathing Constitution." And yeah, that concerns me greatly, because liberals have control, for the most part, of our education system and that crap is crammed down our generational throats.
And lastly, three, considering the paragraph that preceded this quote, it seems as though reducing the size of government is somehow connected to the loss of rights in your mind. True, it's two successive paragraphs, and the 2nd may not have been intended as continuing the premise of the 1st, only you can answer that, but it's the way it struck me anyway. If even just a little bit true, that, too, would be a very concerning premise to think about any significant number of people in this country believing in.
Originally Posted by
fedempl We have too many lazy people that depend on some one else providing for them. This includes those who were lucky enough to be born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
Gee, classist much?
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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to Police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.
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