Brass Magnet
Founder's Club Member
What is so hard about understanding that politicians are a pack of liars?
We elect them based on their promises of smaller government and then they create a bigger bureaucracy and make more laws. I never said I liked it.
Nothing, and I agree. What I wish for is that you would take the time to research and understand that of which you speak before giving everyone "the truth according to Sparticus" That's it.
The facts are that the republic was formed and the constitution put in place to create a functioning government and to protect the people from that government. It was obvious even to the founders that the government wouldn't be perfect and they gave us tools to remedy that. These tools are purposely hard to use which is why polititcians and the courts seek to circumvent them. Ever wonder why they passed an amendment to outlaw alcohol and somehow got away with just outlawing other drugs outright? Now, most of us today agree that prohibition was stupid but AT LEAST it was passed in the manner designated by the constitution. Do you know how closely linked gun control and the illegalization of marajuana are?
The rights are OURS but the government has taken many of them away from us, and they'll keep doing it so long as we let them. So long as people say "a permit is a right".