JamesScottRockford wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:32 amRespectfully, this statement is absurd. Disregarding which side of the aisle you are on, you cannot possibly argue that we have "more freedom" than before, especially with regard to firearms.
Yes, almost everyone I know is glad that dark skinned people can go wherever they choose and attend any college, and that Americans of Japanese descent can legally own property in California. And many, many people I know are pleased as punch that two men or two women can now enjoy, legally, the right to argue daily until they hire a lawyer to split their belongings.
But... when I was a child one could purchase a firearm via the mail by simply sending a check. (Thanks, Lee Harvey!) There were no background checks or waiting periods, and firearms were not registered. As a child, I shot daily on the very campus where I now work. My father coached the school's pistol and rifle team. Fifty years ago, my university had an ARMORY on campus. Before that, anyone who wanted to could buy a Tommy gun.
As a child, my mother (and all her classmates) had knives as part of their school kit. They used them, among other things, to sharpen their pencils. Today, if my child draws a picture of a knife, she will be expelled. University presidents have been fired for using words such as "niggardly" and "niggle" in speeches. Folks, this is madness (IMO) no matter how you slice it.
Someone earlier mentioned our rich history of civil disobedience, which was made famous by the essay of the same name by Henry David Thoreau. Courage was required by Thoreau because he was willing to go to jail for his beliefs. Courage (perhaps stupidity) is required to leave your job because of principles. However deplorable the OP's grammar, I have to give him credit for being willing to take a stand that negatively effects him. In addition (and this is key) he at no time insists that you must do the same, nor does he complain about his loss of income. Yet, also elsewhere, I see someone saying the employer gets to decide and if you don't like it you can leave. Well, that's what he did!
Perhaps you want to live in a nanny state where Big Brother dictates what you must do and what you cannot do. That's fine. I may disagree with that, but you certainly have the right to believe that's a great society. But I do not believe that you can seriously assert that we have not been headed down that road for many years, nor that the speed with which we've been traveling down that road hasn't increased greatly in the last couple of decades.
So you're not willing to quit your job because they suddenly banned knives. Well neither am I. But can't we all agree that there is a point at which you must quit your job no matter how well it pays or no matter how luxurious the benefits? Is there not an ethical limit of what an employer may ask of you? Before you answer, consider the statements of most of the witnesses at the Nuremberg trials. Do Mayor Sadiq Khan's words concern you? Are you not concerned with a world in which expressing an opinion that is contrary to the belief system of an elite minority can lead to the end of your career? Perhaps you don't see any connection between any of these things because your life is so comfortable. If that's the case, I say that's by design.
In my lifetime the laws haven't changed THAT MUCH, I am 53.
Getting a CCW is much easier today than it used to be I can tell you that for sure.
I can still buy the same guns that I could when I was 21, nothing has changed there at all.
Now as far as Society goes, yeah that has changed a lot and not for the better IMO.
That said I despise radicals on either side, one is just as bad as the other IMO.