In this video Penn reminds us that we as Americans need to stop acting like a bunch of cowardly sheep and finally start living our lives like the free people we say we are. He’s right, I can argue all day that more guns makes us safer, but that’s not even the core issue. The core issue is what it means to live our lives as free human beings. If there is something we can do that would make us more free, such as rolling back gun and drug laws, we should do it regardless of how much safer we are before or after. The reason is because freedom should always be more important than (the illusion of) safety.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
I think one of the things that has to be said more and more in this country is ‘live free or die’… If you can convince me that more people will die if heroine is legal, I’m still in favor of the legalization of heroine because if you do not have the freedom to put whatever you want into your body, you’re not living in a free country. And if everyone having guns in their homes means more people die then ‘ok’ - there is a right and a wrong beyond just safety. Live free or die, give me liberty or give me death. And by the way, if taking away TSA means another plane goes down and people die, we have to go for that too. Freedom is more important than our life.
Music to my ears it is.
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I saw your youtube vid the other day about semi and full auto weapons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjM9fcEzSJ0
and I just wanted to share some info that might clear some things up, like why assault rifles are called such a name.
http://world.guns.ru/assault/as51-e.htm
and the basic history of assault rifles
http://world.guns.ru/assault/as00-e.htm
its is true that the media blows stories involving automatic weapons and guns in general out of proportion. its not the guns that kill people, its the people that kill people, what makes the decision that pulls the trigger? the person, so i do not see why people make such a big deal out of guns in general. taking away guns only delays the inevitable. instead of guns, its going to be knives, look at London, people get stabbed every day there, and they have tough gun control. are they going to ban knives after that? if so, then people would just start slugging each other and strangling others. humans are inherently selfish, like any other animal, therefore prone to fighting, the means may change, but they still are going to fight.