Short Stack: Good Enough To Be Free?
Does the freedom to defend oneself—including the right to purchase, own, carry, and use various weapons of choice—make sense for a population that is increasingly incapable of governing themselves?
The United States was born out of revolutionary struggle in which free people used privately-owned weapons of war to take down soldiers and sailors sent by their own government.
Now, in many states, citizens must pay those in government for permission—and request a formal permit—to carry a concealed firearm.
We've gone from threatening our government—“Don't tread on my natural liberty or I will shoot at you with the cannon I own that's currently collecting dust in my barn!”—to asking permission—“My I please, with your permission, my Liege, carry a little gun for my own protection?”
Good Enough To Be Free?
Let's be honest with ourselves and about ourselves: People at the time of the American Revolution and for generations after could be trusted with privately-owned firearms and other weapons—including weapons of war—because they were mature, responsible, and moral. They were good enough to live freely.
Today, many adult Americans are not mature, responsible, or moral. They’re progressive. They’re postmodern.
They pretend like they’re perpetual children and they look to those in government to be their perpetual parents.
They’re not mature and independent; they’re hopelessly immature and dependent. And depressed. And addicted. And without any moral compass or purpose in life.
They repeat faddish moral nihilism (Who’s to say what’s right or wrong?) to woo and wow fellow postmodern progressives—sometimes just before their own teenage children commit suicide.
They mock any suggestion of being good or responsible or self-governing, while openly celebrating notions of being authentic, untamed, unconstrained, and doing whatever one has the will to do regardless of what others think, regardless of what is right or wrong.