Originally Posted by
lostinthewash
As a bystander to your constitution, the "quaint time" made me laugh ... that "quaint time" was also a time when guns were essentially required. Try to take the "right to bear arms" away from some of your folk now, even though no one has to go shoot their dinner any more ...
As CM says above, its not about getting dinner. Its about the citizens holding the final check on government. The absolute ability to change a government that is no longer serving its original purpose of serving the citizens. Armed insurrection has been used in our country before to tell a government that it no longer serves the needs of the people, and has only been used as a last resort.
TSA does not constitute a reason to use that last resort, despite the rhetoric that is OMG so common here. Not even close. PhoenixRev’s comment ignores so many possibilities and was designed only to try and belittle my point, not to understand its meaning. Another comment that was less than astute.
Originally Posted by
chollie
It's pretty hard to prepare a special needs person when you can't even prepare an able-bodied person on what to expect. The information on the website is unreliable (NEXUS, for example, and requirements for infant food, medical exemptions). So how do you prepare a special needs individual, even someone who is mentally competent but physically handicapped, when you don't know yourself what you will encounter? Belts on? belts off? full body open-palm frisk? Wanding? Barking? Stay in wheelchair or be forced to argue to defend right to do so?
Have you ever provided care for a special needs child? If not then there is no real point in trying to explain the realities of that kind of situation to you. If you have then you are being intentionally obtuse, which I have to admit would go against everything I have come to admire about your posting here (IOW I would have a hard time believing if of you).