WY_Not wrote:bignflnut, just what would you suggest as a solution short of willful disobedience and violent resistance? I'd love to see even the barest of suggestions rather than simple links and excerpts.
WY, I have no quarrel with you. I would not advocate violent resistance aside from a last resort. We haven't even begun to attempt to overturn the current state of affairs. We've accepted and internalized the lies that have set this mold. How many even decry it? We were told that we could incrementally walk towards "something better", and some claim that we have. Without getting into the weeds of the issue, the pro-life crowd has been "fighting" for 40 years, and to what effect? How long do we accept these restrictions? Incrementalism doesn't work towards Rights, it works in opposition to Rights. But we've been sold a series of lies.
I'll happily offer suggestions.
Please note, in the privacy of your own mind, how quickly you dismiss the suggestions you have requested.
Short answer is that we need to challenge the presuppositions that have placed us in our current state. So, which supposition do you think would most profitably be challenged?
There are laws and/or court opinions that establish Concealed Carry as a a privilege (as opposed to a Right). This whole mess stems from
DICTA in Robertson v. Baldwin 165 U.S. 275 (1897)
(between Page 165 U. S. 281 and Page 165 U. S. 282) Civics 101 notes that court opinions aren't law, Legislatures can overrule court opinions.
Governments are established to protect our Rights, but privileges aren't Rights, and are subject to endless revision/fine-tuning*. We need government officials to challenge these "established" falsehoods and fight for their posterity's, if not our, Rights. (The rule of law should apply equally to all peoples at all locations, should it not? Do Rights begin and end at the property line of various establishments? ) This seems unlikely as we have "pro-RKBA" groups that accept exemptions for government officials, NICS, licensing, and claim endless revision/fine tuning* is a victory that they utilize to boost fund-raising.
Void laws that are in direct violation of the Ohio Constitution (the highest law in the State): "The people have the right to bear arms for their defense and security; but standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and shall not be kept up; and the military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power." Ohio Const. art. I, S 4
(Do you want to discuss the proper role of the militia and how that would solve many of our ills?)
* Factors include, criminal history, location (parking lot, motor vehicle, airport, school, government building, hospital, alcohol serving restaurant, etc), medication schedule, military service, etc...and hey, let's define loaded firearm...
I appreciate/agree that there's a broken record factor to many of these stories. In the beginning, these stories were dismissed as one-off or conspiracy fodder. As time has marched on, more and more predictions have yielded more stories, adding validity to the severity of our plight. If we passively accept the status quo, what changes will be affected for increasing our Rights? Somebody has to call for a higher standard, for anyone to strive towards it. If people on "our side" can't stomach a bit of criticism as they sidle up to the Swamp People, are we on the same side?
By now, almost everyone has tuned out to the concept of challenging the presuppositions that are the foundation of our sad state. So, let me hear how the current trajectory is FAR better, and the
overwhelming progress that has been made, being ever fearful of how we could be charged believing self-defense is more important than compliance with endless scenarios.