". but changing social views of gun ownership will make it more difficult to bring new, young people into the pro-2A movement and within a few generations the voice will grow smaller....harder to hear......until the views are only held by a small group of holdouts. The fight will be gone. No military will be needed to confront or confiscate. The masses will have handed over their only tool of freedom for a false sense of safety and security. Those of us who choose to hold out will simply be allowed to die off.....no fighting needed."
Tim, perhaps it seems that way now, but as you said "changing social views of ....." . I've been around long enough to have seen social views change several times, so there's no reason to think they won't change again in a very few years. The pendulum swings and swings back again.
I remind myself, when I'm feeling despondent, of what Old Ben replied when asked what form of government had been given them: "A Republic, madam, if you can keep it." I think we can keep it.
Tim, perhaps it seems that way now, but as you said "changing social views of ....." . I've been around long enough to have seen social views change several times, so there's no reason to think they won't change again in a very few years. The pendulum swings and swings back again.
I remind myself, when I'm feeling despondent, of what Old Ben replied when asked what form of government had been given them: "A Republic, madam, if you can keep it." I think we can keep it.