Society of Sheep?

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The San Angelo Standard-Times author W.D. Perkins recently published an article about the debate on gun control being less about controlling the weapons and more about controlling the American people, which you can read here. I think that he does a very good job in shedding light on the fact that the fight doesn't lie with the actual ownership of weapons, no. These are only martyrs to be held in public spectacle and paraded around in a pervasive dog and pony show. The real fight, which is very disturbing in itself, lies with the ability of the people to exercise their rights. As the people of a nation founded on the idea that tyrannical oppression stifles the very lives that we live in, you would think that we would not let history repeat itself. One point I will concede to is that government and some order of it is needed and I lend to it the fact that the United States would not have survived immediately after the American Revolution if it wasn't for some form of control. However, as history marches on, the freedoms and liberties that we have all taken for granted have slowly been subjected to more and more governmental scrutiny and then control. Even the states have slowly given up many of the freedoms that they have fought so hard for but I digress. Mr. Perkins makes a very short but persuasive argument that in only a few lines compels you to rethink the governments motivations. Undoubtedly intended for pro-Second Amendment Americans his audience is quite clear from the outset. Let me also point out however that Mr. Perkins uses the line from Thomas Jefferson stating that "no man shall ever be debarred the use of firearms" quite wrongly in my opinion. The government seems to want to limit the use of high speed and high capacity magazines and weapons, not actually debar them completely. In a recent Guns Across America rally Dan Bongino says, "We live in a society of wolves. We do not fight back by creating more sheep." So which are you, a wolf or a sheep?