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<blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 1095473" data-attributes="member: 4235"><p>Yes, the nature of government is that it tends to accumulate as much power as it can get away with without causing widespread revolt. They don't do anything that would piss off enough people bad enough to make them take up arms -- they make very small and incremental moves on our liberty, and try to impose them in the least noticeable way possible. Its not part of any conspiracy -- its just the nature of government.</p><p></p><p>A good example is how gun control is handled in this country versus other countries. When the british commonwealth countries wanted to ban a type of gun, they just passed a law and told everybody to hand them over. That would not go over well in America. Gun control is done much more gradually here. We have always gone with licenses, taxes, restrictions on further importation or production of a certain type, stuff like that.</p><p></p><p>They do this in lots of areas of our lives. When they want to make people do something, the government frequently uses a tax incentive or something that doesn't seem quite as harsh or noticeable as sending out the stormtroopers to enforce it.</p><p></p><p>I know, its really devious, and it is harmful to liberty, but the fact is that the only thing keeping the government from accomplishing its ends through more quick, direct, and harsh means is the fact that people would be up in arms if they did this. The fact that our government has to be so much more sneaky in regulating our lives than the governments of other countries probably has a lot to do with the fact even today, in our society's pathetic state, our people are still the most individualistic, least trustful of centralized authority, and yes, the best armed people in the world.</p><p></p><p>I bet that if we were a nation of Riflemen again, we would be even more jealous of our liberty. Being a Rifleman isn't just about being able to go to war to protect liberty -- there is something else about being confident in the use of arms that makes a person a little more independent-minded, self-reliant, questioning of authority, and persistent. Thomas Jefferson said that while marksmanship only gives moderate exercise to the body, it "gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="henschman, post: 1095473, member: 4235"] Yes, the nature of government is that it tends to accumulate as much power as it can get away with without causing widespread revolt. They don't do anything that would piss off enough people bad enough to make them take up arms -- they make very small and incremental moves on our liberty, and try to impose them in the least noticeable way possible. Its not part of any conspiracy -- its just the nature of government. A good example is how gun control is handled in this country versus other countries. When the british commonwealth countries wanted to ban a type of gun, they just passed a law and told everybody to hand them over. That would not go over well in America. Gun control is done much more gradually here. We have always gone with licenses, taxes, restrictions on further importation or production of a certain type, stuff like that. They do this in lots of areas of our lives. When they want to make people do something, the government frequently uses a tax incentive or something that doesn't seem quite as harsh or noticeable as sending out the stormtroopers to enforce it. I know, its really devious, and it is harmful to liberty, but the fact is that the only thing keeping the government from accomplishing its ends through more quick, direct, and harsh means is the fact that people would be up in arms if they did this. The fact that our government has to be so much more sneaky in regulating our lives than the governments of other countries probably has a lot to do with the fact even today, in our society's pathetic state, our people are still the most individualistic, least trustful of centralized authority, and yes, the best armed people in the world. I bet that if we were a nation of Riflemen again, we would be even more jealous of our liberty. Being a Rifleman isn't just about being able to go to war to protect liberty -- there is something else about being confident in the use of arms that makes a person a little more independent-minded, self-reliant, questioning of authority, and persistent. Thomas Jefferson said that while marksmanship only gives moderate exercise to the body, it "gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind." [/QUOTE]
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