Interested in knowing exactly what freedoms you used to have in the U.S. that you no longer have?
Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX
This came up in class yesterday. It is not exactly "rights" that we are missing but a corrosion of our life style. 30 years ago I could walk into an airport with an overnight bag. Walk up to the counter and ask for the next flight to anywhere. Pay for the ticket with cash and get on the plane. No TSA, no search, no profiling, no problem...
20 years ago I could go to the same airport and ask for the same thing. They may want to check my carry on, they may ask if I have a major credit card, they would ask if I had ID with my photo on it, they would NOT have me take my shoes off, they would not have me put everything in a tray to be X-rayed, and I could get on the flight.
Today, I have to announce ahead of time, I pretty much have to pay by credit card to avoid stares, they will ask me about luggage and where is it, I will wait for an hour or more, I will have to take off my shoes, I will be pulled over to the side for further checks, I will have to be scanned, and I may spend more time getting on the plane than it takes me to get to where I'm going.
Just one example of the degrading of a certain lifestyle that we used to enjoy. We still have the "right" but it is more difficult to carry it out. Same thing about gun ownership. 50 years ago you'd walk into Sears and buy a rifle with cash. You'd walk out of the store within 10 minutes. Then they added paperwork, lots of paperwork under penalty of law. Then they added the background check and the waiting period. Then they added what kind of guns you could buy and when (two purchases in less than a month gets you an FBI filed started on you). Then they came along and said that this gun was not available (the assault rifle ban) and this gun could not come into the country though it was made in this country (World War II weapons). Later they more scared and said that too many bullets was bad for an honest citizen (magazine capacity). All along the way may cities were saying that you could buy a pistol but just not in their town.
We have won back many gun rights but they hang by a legislative thread and can be revoked by one more mass shooting that catches the public's imagination though it has nothing to do with current law.
As for the OP, silly, silly NBK. I've seen the videos where ISIS lines up a couple of hundred people and kills them. I would call that a mass shooting or beheading, whatever the case may be. I think if this was an honest post, ISIS and maybe China have far and away more mass shootings (in China they call it government executions) than the US in both numbers and percentages.
