The US is probably the world's largest arms exporter.
I mean arms of all types. From .44 magnums to fighters jets we export boatloads. Not that we don't keep a sizable portion right here and actually import some as well, we do. Nearly half of all the conventional firearms held in the world by private citizens are here in the US. With a population of about 311,000,000, we have almost as many guns, nearly 1 per person. The rest of the world has on average about 1 gun for every 23 people.
For those who don't believe we have an individual RKBA, at this time you are left with a choice. You can indulge this belief that is common in this group among gun owners around the country, or you can stop reading and maybe hit ignore or trash.
If you're still with me, you need to know that the spirit of general trust of one's fellow man is what inspired the Founders to list and protect the RKBA. They trusted each other more than any government. More than the government they were forming.
Tenche Coxe said, "Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
In the 18th century, the Founders saw England go from an ally during the 1750s to an enemy in the 1770s. The French whom they fought against along with England, became allies. Can their be a lesson more convincing or more dramatically in your face that government can change from a friend to enemy within a generation than that one?
The hope of the Founders was to acknowledge and protect the people's rights. In no other way than by making the government subject to abolishment at the will of the people, violently if need be, could freedom best be maintained. This system has been working for 225 years. Since then, it has become obvious what our most important export really is. It's not arms, it's our Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration.
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I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
The spirit of unity and mutual participation is ever vital to being an American. The exercise of sharing one's voice through discussion, debate and casting a vote is to experience and spread the essence of what we are. Those that run as candidates, those that volunteer for the service and their friends and families that support them all make this country what it is. Supporters, families and friends that campaign for those running all help in being American. We are not all Democrats but we all need to support the Democracy in which we participate. We are not all Republicans but we need to support the Republic in which we live.
The only true failure is refusing to participate. Everyone's ideas and values deserve respect.
Our addiction to arms sales is something on which we need to work. You'd think after we armed the Taliban, we would've learned something.
Freedom and rights are a another matter. If only we as Americans could apply what Nicolas Cage's character, Yuri Orlov, said about his shady arms dealings to worldwide individual rights and liberty. A Soviet General (and relative of the Orlov character) remarked that eventually someone in would discover the illegal sales of former soviet arms to Orlov who was illegally reselling them at a profit to over a dozen African nations enmeshed in civil wars, rebellions and bloody turmoil. Orlov said simply, "We'll cut them in."
That idea is the essence of predatory capitalism. But the idea of helping others around the world be free by giving away the means to form a Constitutional Democracy is as positive as the other idea is negative. We ALL ultimately profit from our mutual freedom.
The oppressors and especially the oppressed worldwide need to break the cycle of oppression and adopt liberty and respect, let's all do what we can to cut them in.
Perhaps I'll promote it to its own thread sometime soon.