The underlying issue is not gun control.
The underlying issue is CONTROL.
Over every aspect of your life that the power-hungry wimps want the government to wield the power of law upon you and me and us.
Standing Wolf will be along shortly to back me up, i trust.
More or less. Control is, indeed, the crux of the matter. Guns are, indeed, powerful in human hands, so they're the
last thing leftists want to see permitted to commoners.
The "power-hungry wimps" are moral and intellectual wimps; they also, unfortunately, already have a great deal of power, and haven't been at all shy of using it to further their ends.
Leftism is the ideology that furthers the all-powerful, omniscient, omnipresent, all-owning state. For all practical purposes, the state leftists seek demands nothing short of worship: the peasants' and workers' complete subjugation, loyalty, dependence, trust,
et cetra.I'm afraid the supremacy of the state may be the norm throughout history, not the exception.
The principal questions to be asked are, as always:
1. Who benefits? As always, the self-appointed elite.
2. Who pays? As always, the vast majority.
Freedom isn't a "wedge issue." It's the fundamental issue. I'm sorry to tell you I think we've abandoned most of the freedom the United States started with. It's gone. Government is never going to give it back, and frankly, I'd be extremely surprised if we, the people, who are busy watching cable TV and fretting about the price of gasoline, have what it takes even to want it back, still less take it back. We, the people, weren't worthy of it.
