My response was in connection with Post #6, which was *questioned* as to why it was necessary to even say that (per Post #21).
Thus, I came in on that and said (basically) “Yes, it’s necessary to say that the change is going to be by political means and that mechanism, and not by armed revolution.”
I say that (and others say that) because there is a group that says, “We will engage in armed revolution, if we have to.”
My answer to that is to say that I will only engage in the political means and mechanisms that the founding fathers gave us and I’m making that clear right now.
Obviously others have made it clear that they will engage in armed revolution...
I know of nobody who wants one, and if there are, they are in the absolute bare fringe minority. Any sane person, particularly who has been touched by war, does not want one.
But not wanting one, and being willing to do as much as can be done to prevent one, is not the same as indicting that under not circumstances whatsowever will one participate in one.
Such an absolute statment is as dangerous to liberty, IMHO, as anyone who seeks and desires such a course.
If the other side overthrew the constitution, began rounding up dissidents because they used free speech to oppose them, and instituted tyranny in this nation, then by God I would particpate in one, not because I want to...but precisely because, if I value liberty, if I value the future for my kids and grandkids, I would be left with no choice at that point...and that is precisely what the 2nd amendment is about and the pols need to understand this...as much as we all want to avoid it at almost any cost...they have to know that those costs will not include the cost of life or liberty.
Sam Adams had words in this regard in his time for those who under no circumstance would lift up their hands to assist those involved in the fight...and God forbid that it wver comes to a fight...and may we all work our hearts out to aavoid any such evenuality. Nevertheless, he understood well the consequence of letting a tyrant know that under no circumstance would a group of people resist that tyrant and was unwilling (along with the other founders) of countenancing such a course...
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom...go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels nor arms. May your chains set lightly upon you."- Samuel Adams