May you hav peace!
I am going to try to respond to the following from as honest a position/perspective as I can:
Huh? What's more important than freedom?
Now, I don't expect you to understand this, but, apparently for SOME... life? That of themselves AND their children?
Isn't freedom supposedly worth dying for? "Give me liberty or give me death"?
Technically, perhaps. For the white anglo-american/european world, it appears that might be the case (however, we do need to keep in mind that the same folks who made that statement, and who advocated and fought for "freedom" literally enslaved millions of others). It was the case for native americans. However, for others, not necessarily. If it were the bottom line, I think a LOT more slaves would have risked escape... or taken their own lives. The fact that so many did not should answer this for you. The fact that people in, like, Afghanistan and Iraq are not fighting against their respective oppressors should answer that.
Or, for those whose historical awareness comes entirely from Hollywood, Mel Gibson's Braveheart: "Freeeeedoooommmm!!!"
Freedom is a good thing, absolutely. But I think you might be forgetting that laws... are for the lawless. True, it is SHAME that this is what it has come to. But I bet you one gagillon dollars that if YOUR 10-year-old was shot by, say, some 15-year-old... YOU would want to know how the 15-year-old even got a gun, and why someone... anyone... didn't take it away. I don't think, if you could roll the tape back to before the event, you would say, "Hey, look, you guys got no right to go in there and take that kid's gun, even if his parents consented, and you parents should'a never let them in."
I think that if folks are going to ACT like felons, they may find themselves being TREATED like felons under certain circumstances. Ordinarily, felons have no rights when it comes to possessing firearms. They are subject to search... of their cells, their homes, their vehicles, their person... at ANY time. Certainly, then, MINORS, who thus are ILLEGALLY possessing weapons... which would make them FELONS... might have to give up their rights. Here, it is the right to refuse to a search or seizure of their property. Such a search might actually RESULT in freedom for these, however: they might NOT shoot/kill someone and end up incarcerated... and stripped of their "freedom," maybe even for the rest of their lives.
I also think that most of the PARENTS of such minors would rather have their house searched and a gun or drugs found... than get a call that THEIR child... has murdered/killed/shot someone else's. I know I would. You see, I could get over having my "rights" violated. I could get over having my child's "rights" violated. I could get over my child doing time for drugs or possessing a firearm. Or whatever. And if they were framed and the search illegal, I would fight for them. I would not leave them alone.
I could NOT, however, get over my child killing someone else's child... intentionally. And accidentally ain't much better, either.
I bid you peace, dear Fade.
A slave of Christ,
SA
