First off, let me welcome you here to Before 2nd and my first post of the page. I’m not a writer at all, so bear with me as I try to express these jumbled up ideas that exist in my head. Making sense of these ideas and principles are actually the reason of me doing this in the first place, since I have found through various Facebook arguments that the best way for me to figure out where I actually stand on a topic is to write it out. Although it is entertaining for me to find people to disagree with, I do believe that my family and friends not interested as much as I am in ideas would appreciate me freeing up their feed if they have not already done so by the block button.
writing is a time consuming process for me, I type out a sentence, try to read it, fail because its wretched, and do it over again. This slows my thinking about a topic down and causes me to figure out where I really stand on an issue. There have been times where I think I stand on one side of a topic, but by the time I have written a post about it, I change my mind or at least feel much less sure about my position. This is something that I hope to harness here, the slow drudgery of writing sharpening my thoughts, and with time improving my ability to write and think. Fingers crossed that the two improve harmoniously.
Now that I’ve given a little explanation for why I am producing this, let me tackle the subject that this will be built around. Principles and defense. I know that I will follow my thoughts, and wander off occasionally but this is the direction that I want to focus because of many of the arguments made in favor for defense. The constitution is leaned on far too often for a justification for the right to bear arms, but this document gives us nothing. The bill of rights was intended to be a restriction on government, not the grantor of any natural rights, so the use of it to explain why we have this right is like using the rule book of a game to explain why you should follow the rules. The game being unplayable, one player having a massive advantage, or not even being able to have a clear winner with no one coming out successful could be possible side effects of not following the rules but the reason the rules exist lies farther down into the mechanics of the game. the destruction of the book does not make the need for basic principles and rules cease to exist, just like the government ignoring the bill of rights does not make the principles they where written to protect cease to exist. Here I wish to get to these base principles, learn and write more about them, and then from a established base build off of them and see how widely they can be applied.
Wish me luck.