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It's 3 AM in the morning, I hear the breaking of glass on the far side of the house. As I awake I reach for my firearm that I keep by the nightstand. As I rise from my bed I see down the hall a shadow, however I cannot identify who it is. I then wipe my eyes to try and adjust to what I am seeing; I am then horrified at the moment to realize they are not just one shadow but two. I have my firearm at my side as I check carefully not be seen. and still yet approaching the objects myself. I know in the moments before me a decision will be made. In the back of my mind I have thought many times the situations, and how I would defend my family. Slowly my eyes adjusted to the light and I can make out the two shadows are not recognizable and do not belong here, soon a choice that will effect my life until it ends, is about to occur.
But when did this decision become about me, once it was if you entered a place you did not belong, you took something that did not belong to you, or you caused harm to others, you would be accepting it, and that response was a natural and acceptable response, to end the potential threat before you? When did the fact that I possess a firearm, an object comprised only of simple metals, that allows me to equalize my situation in defense of myself and my family dehumanize me? Now that alone has questioned my civil right to exist, and have the ability to exist. It is questioned whether or not I have the right to survive over those who may tread upon my safety. I have been dehumanized, I am nothing but a statistic that the opposition to my rights will use, not to protect or to ensure my safety. But to denounce my quest to defend myself, and my acts to be seen as an act of anti-civilized immoral person, not worthy of safety nor survival. These thoughts are based solely on an object I possess. Not who I am, not what my values are. Not how I live my life, or cared for others.
As a decision has now been made, and two objects lay across my living room floor no longer moving. I have made my decision, it was a choice with no other ending in my view. However it will only be my choice in question. It will not be the question of those who had planned, conniving evil upon us wanting only harm and destruction for my loved ones. But it will be I, who will now stand in the light to explain myself. I do know it will not matter. My choice to defend myself will not matter. The civil rights of this man no longer exist. Because my rights as a human no longer exist. I am just a number now, not a face, orperson. Why? because we have allowed laws to be passed that would dehumanize all of us, that would choose to defend themselves.
The next time we are looking at how political systems work, we must look square at those who support certain restrictions. There was a time when you belong to a group that did the wrong thing, you did defend the group because they did some things right. If a group exists that removes a civil right of defense from any of us. It is the responsibility, no more it is the duty of all of us to secure those rights. By being seen, being noticed, not standing by political correctness as a guideline to our fortitude.
( these are just some excerpts from a book I am writing, given some events that have occurred in the last day it seemed important to post this part, still work in progress)
But when did this decision become about me, once it was if you entered a place you did not belong, you took something that did not belong to you, or you caused harm to others, you would be accepting it, and that response was a natural and acceptable response, to end the potential threat before you? When did the fact that I possess a firearm, an object comprised only of simple metals, that allows me to equalize my situation in defense of myself and my family dehumanize me? Now that alone has questioned my civil right to exist, and have the ability to exist. It is questioned whether or not I have the right to survive over those who may tread upon my safety. I have been dehumanized, I am nothing but a statistic that the opposition to my rights will use, not to protect or to ensure my safety. But to denounce my quest to defend myself, and my acts to be seen as an act of anti-civilized immoral person, not worthy of safety nor survival. These thoughts are based solely on an object I possess. Not who I am, not what my values are. Not how I live my life, or cared for others.
As a decision has now been made, and two objects lay across my living room floor no longer moving. I have made my decision, it was a choice with no other ending in my view. However it will only be my choice in question. It will not be the question of those who had planned, conniving evil upon us wanting only harm and destruction for my loved ones. But it will be I, who will now stand in the light to explain myself. I do know it will not matter. My choice to defend myself will not matter. The civil rights of this man no longer exist. Because my rights as a human no longer exist. I am just a number now, not a face, orperson. Why? because we have allowed laws to be passed that would dehumanize all of us, that would choose to defend themselves.
The next time we are looking at how political systems work, we must look square at those who support certain restrictions. There was a time when you belong to a group that did the wrong thing, you did defend the group because they did some things right. If a group exists that removes a civil right of defense from any of us. It is the responsibility, no more it is the duty of all of us to secure those rights. By being seen, being noticed, not standing by political correctness as a guideline to our fortitude.
( these are just some excerpts from a book I am writing, given some events that have occurred in the last day it seemed important to post this part, still work in progress)
