It was actually a quote, but its quite true. And it doesn't even matter if its a weapon or a tool, legislating this way is a form of control. And by controlling your environment, they are taking away your most deadly weapon, namely your ability to think for yourself. The more "little" things that can be taken away, the more "big" things they can get away with, because you think its normal. Go read George Orwell's 1984, then tell me that he did not see England going in this direction (and the world is following, like lemmings over a cliff.)
Ok first I would like to say that I have read 1984.
To actually adress your point, how paranoid can you get? I fail to see any connection between legislation of weapons and my ability to think freely. In fact, it is IMPOSSIBLE for the government to legislate the way you think. To prove this point I would like to share with you a story I heard of a jewish college professor who was forced into a concentration camp. Though they beat him, starved him and could have at any minute ended his life he got out in better mental health than his captives. Every day he relived his lectures and he basically lived inside of his mind during his captivity. Do you think a law can take away your mind? If someone can tell YOU how to think you are weak. Thats really the end of it.
As for this whole "slippery slope" business I do not think it fits historically. If you look at trends in western democracies, we see a steady, but extremely slow trend towards more civil liberties. There are, on occasion, short lived major revisions but they almost always correct themselves (right now we are corrected from the reactionary revolution). A good example of this is the economic system we have in this country, during the new deal people were freaked out about that slippery slope and look here in 2009 we are essentially (and sadly) where we started.
You are free to take a short sighted view, there may even be merit in that. But I am not such a person to invest so much into something I know will eventually correct itself. I do however, wish to avoid any inconvinience with LEOs that may result from me (and my collection) moving.
What is that quote from by the way?
As for jobs being sent overseas, it should alarm you, even if you're not "nationalist enough." I'm not even a US citizen, and I think its horrifying, because I see the friends and family I have here suffer because of it. My mother in law can't retire because she can't afford health insurance. She has worked in the same company since she was 18, and they just made her take a pay cut, because they are sending more and more stuff overseas. If it wasn't for the Chinese messing up production all the time, she wouldn't have a job at all, fixing their mistakes.
Well I dont think your view is very thoughtful. People outside of the united states need jobs too, perhaps they need them more.
look Im sorry about your mother in law but thats really unfair to blame that on outsourcing. wouldnt the best solution be to simply fix health insurance by having a single payer system so she doenst have that expense and could retire? Say she didnt have to take a pay cut, she might still get denied coverage in an emergency because of some "pre-existing condition". And before you say "that wont happen", my dad works in medicine at a large hospital and you see it ALL the time. I wouldnt be going into retirement myself unless I had enough money to cover the worst case scenario in medical bills because you can get dropped like a rock and have no way to help yourself.
Anyway, we have gotten off topic so Ill leave it here.
