Your points are well taken, and you’ve written very persuasively, but we privileged kids, because I guess I was one of them, were also voiceless in the face of an implacable government campaign. I maybe was too young to evaluate the impact of Kent State, but it seemed huge at the time to my young eyes. I learned that I wasn’t safe from my own government, and I’ve never forgotten it.
Yea, Kent State was horrific, not faulting you there at all. You'd think after moments like that that the left would understand the link between gun ownership and the 2A being about the people being able to fight against an abusive government that can't be trusted, but maybe it's going to take MAGA authoritarianism in the long run for them to learn that lesson the hard way.
Your points are well taken, and you’ve written very persuasively, but we privileged kids, because I guess I was one of them, were also voiceless in the face of an implacable government campaign. I maybe was too young to evaluate the impact of Kent State, but it seemed huge at the time to my young eyes. I learned that I wasn’t safe from my own government, and I’ve never forgotten it.
Yea, Kent State was horrific, not faulting you there at all. You'd think after moments like that that the left would understand the link between gun ownership and the 2A being about the people being able to fight against an abusive government that can't be trusted, but maybe it's going to take MAGA authoritarianism in the long run for them to learn that lesson the hard way.