Quote Originally Posted by Skip View Post
In all seriousness, we are living in post-legal, post-Constitutional society* that continues to exist because the governed continue to give their consent to lawless government.
That's what I was getting at in the other thread when I wrote this:

Quote Originally Posted by Bailey Guns View Post
When has anyone (by that I mean an organized group) REALLY resisted ANY gun control measure that's been instituted in this country in our lifetimes? I can't think of an instance. Not in 1934. Not in 1968. Not in 1986. Not in 1994. Not in 2013. Resistance has occurred in the courts for the most part. And the record is mixed. Yet we have hundreds of millions of guns in the hands of ordinary people.
We're generally a law-abiding society. It's what we do because we believe in it. Or, at one time we did. It seems the sentiment is changing into one that says, "Yeah...that legal stuff really doesn't work for me. I want it my way."