[TheRealThing]

"Will the 2nd Amendment Survive til 2016?". Do any of you really believe anything significant will change after the 2016 elections? No matter the outcome? Do you really? Almost every candidate is passive and weak. I see nothing to be optimistic about.

IMHO the only reason this country ever 'worked' was due to the fact that the men and women of government in days past valued the nation above their own personal fortunes. That, their love of country and a viable free press kept them at least relatively in line. These days with Dems willing to risk everything our nation stands for in order to get their way, along with a complicit media, Republicans who do care about the continuance of our way of life find themselves between a rock and a hard place. As I have often said, even tricky Dick resigned when he saw the handwriting on the wall in a rather selfless effort to preserve the viability of this nation. Contrast that with the shameful display of Bill Clinton and his refusal to step down in the face of impeachment. With his example ended the days of country over party.

Senate and House committee leadership, (said committees themselves being seeded with stonewallers the likes of Elijah Cummins FWIW) keep asking for relative documents while government staffers willing to fall on the sword in the name of liberalism, keep deleting emails and providing cover for Democratic shenanigans such as the IRS scandal and the Benghazi scandal. None of us could see those things coming, but the potential destruction of the 2nd Amendment now looks to be imminent.

So here's the deal the way I see it. Republicans are in a position of having to compromise traditional practice at the federal level but, only as much as seems to be necessary while they wait for "the people" to hopefully wake up. To push things to the extent people like Sean Hannity are demanding for example, would only speed up the disaster. Dems in the House were swept in 2010, Dems in the Senate were swept in 2014. We have a President who writes and rescinds law on his own and now we're hoping to survive until 2016 with some recognizable remnant of the America we grew up in still in tact. See, I don't think the baby boomer generation is willing to see the level to which the Democrat Party has changed or they'd stop mindlessly pulling the D handle. And, without them I don't believe Dems can win the Presidency.

In this nation there is seemingly an endless pattern whereby we keep making the same mistake over and over. Having become irrevocably complacent and willfully naïve, successive generations here begin to lose touch with the realities of life on this earth. Life is sweet here in the US and people just cannot seem to understand that there is a world of very bad people out there who no matter how much we give them money and kiss up, are not going to let us live out our lives in peace unless we carry that big military stick. WW1 saw the US lapse into isolationism and denial about man's propensity for war. WW2 again saw the US lapse into isolationism and denial. In both of those cases owing to the vastness of the planet, the US had enough time to draft soldiers and ramp up industry to provide the war machines and materials necessary to defeat our enemies.

Well, here we are again on the eve of what bodes to be yet another world war and, in direct contrast to the tried and proven post WW2 foreign policy that had up until this administration served so well to ensure a relative orderliness in the world, we are again wanting to stay at home and mind our own business. IMO though the concept has been repackaged and relabeled, we have again lapsed into isolationism. This time however things are much different. We will not have time to tool up industry, restart the draft and get soldiers trained in sufficient numbers to defend us. The oceans are still the same size but the time it takes enemy aircraft and missiles to cross them has been reduced to hours and minutes. Safe to say that I am not a 21st century thinker because unlike Obama and his minions, I do believe that man is still capable of large scale war. We will be sorry for all the pink slips that we have seen send so many valuable and knowledgeable servicemen who could pass on critical training to upcoming soldiers back to the house.

With the Supremely misguided court in his hip pocket, I don't think the President is shaking in his boots over what the Congress might threaten him with. That makes them look a little more passive and weak than I believe they really are. At any rate and I know you agree with me Pig, man has not evolved, nor has society. I will therefore accept the wisdom of the founding fathers and continue to embrace the freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution including the right to own and bear arms.