Why are so many Americans ready to give up any and all or their rights? Is is safety and security? what is it?
15 Answers to "Why are so many Americans ready to give up any and all or their rights? Is is safety and security? what is it?"
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err. you can pry my rights from my cold dead hands ... - average american...
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? wha
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This 'Merican isn't giving up any rights. I've seen the light. I want my own missile silo.
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The average masses of America are extremely unintelligent and fearful, and they think the government is gonna look out for us. I don't care what they say, I believe in the act of civil disobedience, if I don't think a law is fair or just, I don't follow it, I will always own a gun, and I will do as I please, I will not do as I am told, just because I am told to do so, I will live my life how knowing that I was never controlled by fear, or unjust laws. Americans, and people in general, are fearful and would rather give up freedom for thinking they are safe, when the removal of those right and freedoms should be the most frightening unsafe thing of all.
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I agree many people over react and do not understand. I see a lot of people reacting out of fear of anger and that is what concerns me the most.
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Absolutely, when you act out of emotion, especially fear or anger, that's when the logical people of the world begin to worry. If you let any emotion rule you, then it's going to end badly. It always does.
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NOT happening here either.
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
“The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
Samuel Adams quotes
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Because lots of people dont know their rights
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Thats true and they are afraid and looking for a way to feel safe.
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Yeah most believe everything the goverment says.
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Show me one American who's ready to give up any and all of their rights. You know, just to verify that your question isn't total bullshit.
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USA PATRIOT Act
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Don't include me in that. We aren't safe and secure at all. 8-/
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What rights? Since when has anybody wanted to give up their rights? I don't understand the premise of your question.
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Go read your Rights... then come back.
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I have. But if you are too inarticulate to identify which of a citizen's numerous rights you are alluding to, then I am not going to expend time trying to guess.
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HERE'S ONE FUQING AMERICAN WHO WANTS HER RIGHTS. KILL SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM.
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They have sold their souls, for government freebies, that have to be paid for, by someone else. They are collectively too ignorant to know any better. All the great examples, of past and present, are lost on them.
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Reminds me of the bush days when people accepted phone surveillance
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That is still on, just like everything under the USA PATRIOT Act
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It's the media ,Putting suff on the news running it day after day . More people are killed by hammers than a assault rifle . Why not ban hammers . And wile we are at it we see plains crash on the news all the time we should pass laws against air travel to keep people safe
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ya but where is that coming from? Big business Big Government?
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What rights do you mean? What is safety and security? Is it found in the hands of men and women? There is only safety and security in God, in this world, everything has been corrupted. The only right I had was being born, and the only other right I have is my death. In between I am given a voice, and if freedom of ex
pression still counts for anything than I personally consider that to be my greatest right, knowing that too was taken away under the Bush regime, where many feared to speak out b/c of that corrupt government. God is love, the world is fear. Like (1)
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Stupidity.
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Posted by chorusgirl Jan 16th, 2013 at 11:51AM
I'm not giving up any rights. Regulations will not fix the problems. Mexico has strict gun laws and high gun violence. Switzerland has loose gun laws and low violence.
"Switzerland trails behind only the U.S, Yemen and Serbia in the number of guns per capita; between 2.3 million and 4.5 million military and private firearms are estimated to be in circulation in a country of only 8 million people. Yet, despite the prevalence of guns, the violent-crime rate is low: government figures show about 0.5 gun homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2010. By comparison, the U.S rate in the same year was about 5 firearm killings per 100,000 people, according to a 2011 U.N. report."
Restrictive laws are not the answer. Putting laws in place will not change anything. In the recent past, most of the gun violence that has taken place, was not carried out with "legally" acquired firearms. Take away the tool to commit the violence and they will find another way. Timothy McVeigh carried out one of the most lethal acts of domestic terrorism using all legal substances. We can't mitigate all violence. It's just the sad fact. We can concentrate on mental health education and looking for cries for help and warning signs in our own children, our families, and co-workers. We need to take an active effort in our own communities and not place all of our hopes on laws and regulations to fix the problem.
*steps off soap box....
Sorry for venting.
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Reply by Taoistman Jan 16th, 2013 at 11:55AM
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