On the topic of freedom and this weeks prompt, given by @EagleSpirit & @FreedomTribe "Where does the right to bear arms fit in?"
I know the United States has that as part of their constitution, the right to bear arms, but I am a Canadian and we can own firearms if we have a firearms acquisition certificate, easily obtained by taking a gun safety course and having a criminal record check.
Canada, at one time, had tried to pass a gun registration law but that was a real joke, that cost a lot of tax payer money!
Now the regular citizen can have the right to own guns with their certificate but we know criminals never bother with that stuff, if they want to have a gun, they will have a gun an no amount of legislature will change that.
I do believe people have the right to defend themselves with equal force as what they are threatened with. With the amount of violence in the world and the prevelence of guns out there, to say that someone could not bear arms would be to say they could not defend themselves.
What an imbalance there would be if only the governments and people in power were allowed to be armed but the common folk were left without. That is stripping away their power and is unjust.
When I look back on the evolution of the gun, it has always given a one-upens for the gun holder against an unarmed person or game.
That brings me to another point of guns as a tool to not only protect your family but to feed them also. I could not deny a person that right.
Now when I look at an ideal world where all beings are living in peace and harmony there would be no need for guns and I would not want them in that world.
This would be my preference but my conditions as they are now, we do have a gun in the house and it has been used to scare bears away and my husband is fully prepared to defend his family if it ever came to that.
Personally I know how to use it but I don't know if I could ever pull the trigger on a person or any being for that matter, it is not my nature.
Now are guns necessary for absolute freedom? I think not, for there are many types of freedom which guns would play no part in attaining.
Will guns ever disappear?
Not for eons, they are very much entrenched in our society.
My choice is to retreat into the forest to live a peaceful life for as long as I may and as long as the forces let me. The gun is there but I hope it will never have to be used and I would not like someone lording over me, telling me that I can not have that gun, while they continue to have that right.
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