"Dave Head" <rally2xs_at_att.net> wrote in message
news:o0es80pd4cdtr2qfsfa065ln6sksukd8q1_at_4ax.com...
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 04:04:11 -0500, Ron Hunter <rphunter_at_charter.net>
wrote:
>
> >William Graham wrote:
> >> "The DaveŠ" <no_at_no.com> wrote in message
> >> news:%Hgjc.2709$WJ4.923_at_news02.roc.ny...
> >>
> >>>>William Graham wrote:
> >>>>Yes.....At 68, I remember WW-II and the loss of quite a few
> >>>>"liberties" we suffered during those years. The same talk about it
> >>>>existed then, but on a lesser scale, because the threat was more
> >>>>obvious than it is today. I know that this will blow over too, but I
> >>>>understand the complaints from the younger people.....And even I
> >>>>don't see any end to it, since terrorism is going to be with us in
> >>>>some form or other for a long time. - I wish I knew the answer, but
> >>>>it seems that we just can't have our cake and eat it too.......
> >>>
> >>>Were there concerns that once liberties were given up, that they'd
> >>>never be regained?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yes there were.....Just as there are today.....And, some liberties were
> >> never regained. But the pendulum swung back after the threat was over.
I
> >> expect that this will happen again, but in this case too, some
liberties
> >> will never be regained.....This is because the general direction of
> >> government is to impose more and more controls on the people, "for
their own
> >> good". This is why almost all governments have ended in revolution,
which is
> >> the primary right of the people.
> >>
> >>
> >Just curious, what liberty was not regained after WWII?
>
> Ummm.... how about the right to keep and bear arms?
>
> I, as a 12 year old, in 1959, used to walk down the street of my home
town,
> after attending the VFW Jr. Rifle Club meeting and shoot at the city
building /
> police firing range, with my .22 bolt-action repeating rifle, carried in
plain
> view with no case or anything around it. Now, I can't even do that as an
> adult. Over time, this nonsense is just going to get worse, until nobody
can
> do anything that requires actual freedom. Fortunately, I'll likely be
dead
> before having to experience it.
>
> Dave Head
>
Yes.....My brother-in-law used to take his 22, get on the bus, ride it out
of town, shoot rabbits for a couple of hours, and bring them back home on
the bus to fix for dinner when he was a kid.....If anyone tried that today,
they would be busted at the next busstop by the police, because the
busdriver would dial 911 on his cell phone......
