It took an Englishman to help HI fight for our 2a rights back. Funny when he gets called out on social media by people who are supposed to be pro 2A and they ask what has he done for the cause.
That's all too common in the US. It's called "Taking your blessings for granted."
Everyone knows the phrase "taken for granted," but not everyone really thinks about what it means.
The Preamble of the Declaration of Independence begins with the phrase, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..." Self-evident is synonymous with something taken for granted. It means we assume something is true, real, and unquestionable ... expected.
When it comes to rights, we are being taught that our liberty is a given, and that the government will unquestionably protect our rights.
In the 1960s, Blacks and those who supported their cause did not expect their rights to be protected, as their experiences had proven otherwise. They had to fight and protest and get arrested, beaten and sometimes murdered (MLK Jr) in order for Blacks to be treated as equals. "All men are created equal" -- also in the Declaration.
Today, our standards have shifted. So many battles for equality have been fought and won that we now take them for granted. We expect (assume) that our rights are respected by government and will be protected.
It's gotten so that we are making up brand new "rights" (healthcare, a "living" wage, killing children through abortion-on-demand at any point in pregnancy, etc.). even the right to "feel safe" has been argued after mass shootings.
Now we have mentally ill people who believe they are living their lives in the wrong body convincing others they have a right to not only get free sex reassignment procedures and drugs, but that the rest of us must "affirm" their beliefs or be labeled transphobic.
We've stopped teaching what fundamental rights are. Without those, none of these imagined rights would exist. Poor people in Africa are not seeking to have their bodies mutilated to become the opposite sex from the one they were born into. They find it laughable that any (sane) person can think a man can become a woman. Check the Matt Walsh video for those interviews.
When it comes to the bill of rights, US citizens often take those enumerated rights for granted. We will always have a free press, the right to worship, and the right to keep and bear arms -- because the government must follow the Constitution.
The breakdown comes when the majority is convinced they have rights that countermand the right of the people to have guns (the right to not get shot by a psycho in a shopping mall).
They aren't looking into the reason behind 2A. It exists so WE can protect all our fundamental rights -- so governments remains in check, both foreign and especially domestic.
Kids are taught in school how things are, and they aren't given enough information to understand the "Why"" and the "What happens if those things cease to be protected or even acknowledged by government?"
I like to compare our present society to a company with an outstanding IT department. If for years there have been no hacks, no successful Phishing attempts, no ransomware payments demanded, and no hardware or network outages longer than the time it takes to fire up the backup routers, servers, etc., management begins to ask, "Why are we spending so much for IT? I never see them doing much lately."
Management takes for granted that their IT infrastructure is going to continue working, even if they start reducing staff and cutting budgets. Until they make those changes, they can't see how much work went into keeping everything running smoothly and protecting the company's operation safe from outside actors. They assume IT will continue to be as reliable over the coming years even while gutting the resources that made it that way.
There have been individuals and groups calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment, If the country continues to fall further into this pit of complacency, it's only a matter of time before the (major) majority overrules the minority, and government will no longer have that roadblock preventing it from going full-on tyrannical.
Civil Wars are still happening all around the worild. The US is not immune. In fact, we are probably due for another given the amount of division on display lately.