RULES SHMULES!

(This post is based on a thought by my brother)

     I find it odd to hear people say things like: "I am anti-gun."

     If you are playing a board game like monopoly (or maybe Settlers of Catan), do you ever hear any players say, "I am anti-rules"?  Obviously not, for if you were "anti-rules" you would never have been allowed to sit down and play.  Now, I do understand the frustration when all your properties are mortgaged and you're hoping NOT to land on Marvin Gardens which has four houses on it.  At this point you might be wishing that the rules could be altered in your favor.  However, you didn't have a problem with the rules when the game started and everyone's opportunities were equal.

     Our rights (rules) are found in the U.S. Constitution.  We don't just get to change the rules because we don't like them, or because something happened that changed our situation, or because "the majority of Americans want blah blah blah."  

     Contrary to what most of us were taught, we do NOT live in a Democracy: which is basically mob (majority) rule.  Fortunately for all of us we live in a Republic under the rule of law, which protects us from the whims of changes in societal thought. If you want to live under a different set of rules... go live somewhere else.  I heard North Korea is nice.  They have virtually no gun violence.

WHAT IS A REPUBLIC?