That's problem in UK as well. It seems that ( in a democracy ) state still thinks that children ultimately belong to her. I find that repulsive to the core. How can somebody else own your children? That's why I think right to bear arms should be constitutionally guaranteed.
I have nothing against homosexuality, its form of individualism and I am all for it. Just suit yourself and don't impose your choice on others. But in UK schools non-homosexual kids are coerced into "experimenting" with their sexuality.
That's as bad as it gets. On the lesser side, here, if you send your child to a very prestigious Catholic school than you can not choose weather your child attends religious classes. Brainwash guaranteed, no option to pull out.
In the '70s I remember when they mandated teaching sex education in school. In Grade school K-6 at the time you had one teacher all day. In 6th grade when this started this person was a nice but crusty character that had seen his share of action in heavy bombers in WW2 and was perhaps, a tad flustered to have to speak about this in front of children. He liked to tell war stories and I lapped them up. As a result I remember describing a 'short arm inspection' to my Mom. Military term for venereal disease check. Imagine how
THAT would go over today. I recall two years later having a more formal approach in Junior High as one of several classes during the day with actual homework and stuff.
I am not a parent but it seems common sense to give kids some sort of formalized learning since they are likely to be doing their own informal learning anyway. For the same reason they sued to send kids to Driver's Education - there was something you should learn and the school is supposed to teach you. Inflicting a Woke agenda on kids too small to understand is criminal. Explaining basic biology isn't a problem if you lose the Woke horseshit. No wonder those parents in Virginia are so damned mad, and no wonder the people that started that are no longer in office.
As for the right to bear arms, well that's a sticky wicket. Whatever the hell a sticky wicket is
Couple ways to look at this. One is as an armed citizen with the right to self defense and that I believe is inviolable and
some of what is behind the 2nd Amendment. In any era people are people and some hurt others; we're entitled to protect ourselves accordingly. I think the heart of it though goes back to continental Europe, the UK and centuries of feudal civilization. Can't have the riff raff getting their hands on weaponry can we? Might cause strange ideas to form. As I recall the regulars were sent out to collect various cannon and shot and other weaponry from the riff raff at Lexington and Concord and that didn't end well. In the UK you couldn't deny a man who lives in the woods a stick and the local Sheriff ( of Nottingham maybe .....) or tax collector might get a nasty knock on the head before he's forced to come back with more help. Over here they lived in a howling wilderness, were required to form militias to deal with natives and other European powers and knew how to make their own rifles. That right there is - in my opinion - where the concept of gun ownership started for Americans.
It's the latter - the extremists that think they can in 2022 actually use small arms to oppose the government. What was possible two hundred years ago just isn't. Waving AR style weapons and proclaiming Freedom and so forth is counterproductive. It smacks of the armed thugs who first seize and then become the government of small third world dumps. Ain't gonna happen here and enough with waving around those goddamned useless rifles. If that nonsense didn't result in deadly weapons being commonly available to teenage kids who subsequently go of shooting sprees then I wouldn't care, but it
does and it's at the root of the problem. The 2nd Amendment says what is says but as I always say context is important - it doesn't conflict with the Preamble which states the full intent right up front. Unlimited access to weapons that have little purpose beyond killing people doesn't make me feel any domestic tranquility or that my general welfare is being considered. Even back then they'd think you're nuts if you suddenly decided to hoard rifles, cannon and shot, powder and so forth and proclaim your Freedoms. Even back then they might quietly take them away from you so they might sleep at night. They certainly would if people were shooting each other up en masse for no reason.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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