Originally Posted By: BobS
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It’s a dangerous position to be caviler about a right (gun ownership) because you don’t feel it effects you right now. At some point one of your rights that does effect you and that you care about will be under attack and if others say “no big deal” as you did who’s going to fight for it if we all felt that way?



What you said reminded me of this poem:

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER.;

And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;

And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;

And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

-Pastor Martin Niemoeller

Not really the same context, but the idea is similar. The loss of a few rights can, one day, lead to the loss of all rights.