“At the end of the day, the liberal agenda is clear. It’s to expand the power and control of government by convincing more and more people that in order to achieve ultimate public safety citizens have to give up their personal autonomy and freedoms as it relates to their fundamental right of self-defense. In a nutshell, liberals want everyone to believe that you are more safe when you are less free to defend yourself. If that sounds crazy, that’s because it is crazy. But that’s what liberals get wrong on guns in my opinion.”
The big problem with liberals is that they emphasize public safety at the expense of personal preparedness.
Personally, I want to live in a safe area but more than anything else I want to be prepared. Safety is the absence of threats. Preparedness is the ability to confront and handle all threats an environment poses.
One’s safety, therefore, is a fluid condition contingent upon the potential threats in an area. Since it’s impossible to control all the variables and conditions of an environment, one is never truly safe or out of danger. Something can always go wrong. A threat can always emerge. Hence, it pays to be prepared, to have a degree of agency in an environment, to have the training and confidence to act decisively to neutralize a threat.
Yet, liberals by and large don’t believe in personal preparedness. Like with everything else (health care, education, child care), they encourage you to rely solely on Uncle Sugar to provide you with what you need. Why? Because the more you are dependent on government the more you are malleable to the government’s agenda, which is and has always been the rapacious expansion of its power and control over the people it is supposed to serve.
Liberals, therefore, tell you that the government can protect you. This is a lie. The government cannot protect you! You, and you alone are responsible for confronting and handling the dangers you may face day to day.
The government’s role in public safety is to enforce the laws and take bad guys off the streets — to remove threats from society. But more often than not this happens retroactively. That is to say, after the crime has been committed, after the victim has been victimized. In the moment when your life is on the line, it’s up to you to defend it. The government won’t be there to save you.
by S.H. Blannelberry
