The American people, or should I say the most of
them, wants to be safe in their homes or wherever they are at. It is a overwhelming
desire on their part to be safe. Safety is a important fact and fundamental
part of person’s well being after we satisfy the basic needs such as food,
water, shelter, and other basic things. In order for us to flourish and prosper
we need to have our basic needs met, our spiritual needs met, and then people
are able to center their attention on other needs and wants. Our
government has been trying (as they try to point out) to insure the American
people more safety by trying to take away more and more of their rights and
liberties as Americans and given more liberties to people who are bent on
destroying ours.
How can a government balance a person’s freedom
and safety? Ben Franklin said this; “They
who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety.” What Ben Franklin said is not only extremely
important, but one for every American to think about and keep in mind, because
if you are willing to give up your freedoms to have a little more safety then
you don’t deserve to have freedom or safety. It is that simple, a no
brainer, for those of us who understand the American way of life. We must take
a stand against for some of the things that are happening in this country.
Why would Ben Franklin say such a thing? It
starts by understanding the price that he and the other founding fathers paid, and
also all those who fought for our freedoms since then in places and wars from
the revolutionary war, to the civil war, the first world war, the second world
war, Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Afghanistan, and all the wars in between, for you and I to have the most free country in
the world to enjoy and live in. Hundreds of thousands of American soldiers have
given their lives for the freedoms that we enjoy in this country today. Everyone
of these soldiers, with unwritten and unspoken words, understood a very
important thing and it is this, to
have freedom there has to be risks. Life, no matter what country you live
in or your station in life, is full of risks and we clearly want to reduce those
threats, but the questions is; “At what cost are you willing to give up
freedoms for a little temporary safety”?
At what cost are we willing to stop the chaos in our country?
No matter where you live you can never be free
with no risks and dangers. There is not a single country {to the best of my
knowledge} on this earth without crime. Some countries may have more crime than
other countries, and many people like to point out the high crime rate in the
United States as a reason to take away the freedoms others have fought and died
for. Americans should and must
understand that a common weapon of crime, the gun, is only a non-living object,
and cannot make one person kill another person. Before there were guns, it was swords and
clubs that were used to kill, rocks before that, and who knows before that. Murder
and crime has been going on since Cain and Able.
The government, and some other groups of people
wants all guns banned. That would be great if we lived in a world of our own,
but we don’t! People still overlook the real reason of the violent behavior and
bloodshed and that is the nature of some people. We ignore and close the eyes
to the fact that some people will always kill other people. Until this life is
over that is the way it will be. No matter how “civilized” we think that we
have become, cruel people will hurt and kill others in spite of any laws that are in place. When people disregard
their own personal responsibility and blame a gun, knife, or any other non
breathing thing for the actions of a person who used it, we weaken and reduce our
worth and importance as human beings and individuals to decide the way we act.
We should all remember that the bad guys (criminals,
terrorist) don’t care one bit about America as a whole. That includes you and your
families. Some people would rather kill you than have to do anything else to
get what they want. No amount of education or training will change these
people’s way of thinking. There is no way of helping people who believe
when they are killing someone and they die they are on their way to heaven
where all these virgins are waiting for them. These people live in every city. The
fact is, it’s the people that ignore these bad people that have created and
shaped the ungodly chaos we are in. If we, as a people want the crime and
the acts of terrorism in this country to fall then let us make people be accountable
for their actions (remembering that all actions have consequences and then {and
only then} will the crime rates and the acts of terrorism go down.
As our freedoms are being taking away more every
day, the people who come here illegally are giving more and more freedoms every
day. How can we count on the law
enforcement agencies to protect us when some of them are being sentence to
prison by our government for doing their jobs? How can our government protect
us from terrorism when they will not call it what it is, “TERRORISM” and allow the very people who are behind it to
dictate the policy of this country? Their
laws and their way of life is being forced on the American people more and more
every day. Here a little and there a
little our freedoms as we know them are being taken away.
Sorry to say, there are many people who feel that it is an outrage to
think this way and will sit and watch their family get injured, hurt, killed
and hope someone else will show up to stop it. Remember this the world is
an ugly place with some ugly people. Until the people of this great
nation go back to the principles that
this nation was founded on, and they are; GOD, GUNS, AND GUTS, {in that order} this
nation will continue to slide into the mire.
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