Whom Do you trust?

A final thought for the day: You can not trust a government that doesn't trust you.

The concept of course applies to the carrying of guns for self defense and other lawful purposes. North Carolina grudgingly trusts you if they run a criminal background check on you every 5 years, pay to have that criminal background check run, and take your finger prints. How many crimes have been solved by this procedure is unknown, but I suspect it is a vanishingly small percentage.  Criminals after all don't seek permits but carry anyway, and not for lawful purposes.  I therefore reserve the right to begrudgingly trust the government to the same degree.

The concept also applies elsewhere as well. For example, take the current scene at the Capitol. There are uniformed troops patrolling the nations capitol with honest to goodness "assault" weapons. AR-15s are not assault rifles, but the rifles carried by our troops are capable of full automatic fire. Didn't we hear from the Democrats that weapons of war do not belong on the nation's streets?  But now they seem to want them on those same streets.  And what is with the barbed wire fence around the Capitol Building?  Who, or what are they protecting from whom?

Given President Asterisk's desire to pass major gun control, and the many and varied bills to take away guns, all of which violate the Second Amendment's clear words, suggests that the Democrat party as a whole doesn't trust the people.  By the corollary above, you should not trust them either.

But the fact that the Democrats now feel the need to have a barbed wire fence around the Capitol with armed troops patrolling it also suggests a lack of confidence, of weakness.  Of course we feel that the election was stolen.  But these moves suggest they also believe it.

Hmmm.  It's just a thought.