There has been a significant fear over the past seven years that President Obama would restrict guns. But, the number of guns purchased over the past seven years has been indicative that this was a significant fear. President Obama has not. He might have…with a different Congress – we will never know.

I took the title for this post from a bumper sticker I saw in suburban Atlanta a few weeks ago. The implication is that the Second Amendment guaranteeing individual gun rights also protects other fundamental freedoms (speech, press, religion).

In the past seven years, Catholic organizations have been forced to violate their religious beliefs in order to provide birth control under Obamacare. Commencement speakers have been disinvited from universities because of various things they have previously said or supported. In other words, freedom of religion and freedom of speech have been challenged much more significantly than guns. There are many more guns in the U.S. in 2016 than there were in 2008. And, yet, those guns have not protected the First Amendment. None this would have surprised George Orwell.

Is this an anti-gun blog post? No. Although I am open to some moderate gun control, I have written in previous posts that gun control is not the best solution for mass shootings. One only need to remember that the San Bernardino terrorists wanted to kill people with pipe bombs as well. In Israel, terrorists successfully employ the technique of stabbing. Gun control is not the point of this post.

There are more dangerous threats to our general freedom than a Democratic President taking away our guns. Besides the threat to freedom of speech and religion noted above, the fact that the Kardashians have tens of millions of followers on social media is as much a threat to our basic freedoms. The smartest of pundits and scholars I follow on Twitter have tens of thousands of followers. They figure out how this country can survive, how more jobs can be produced…yet, I cannot think of one of them who has 1M followers. This is not small reason that another reality star, “The Donald,” has received three million Republican votes. Can democracy survive a society where our leaders are simply those most visible?

How about kids? What kind of society will we have in twenty years when we allow Netflix and iPads to raise our kids? Yet, having guns is somehow going to solve all our national problems. That’s ridiculous. The opposite of crazy is crazy. It’s like switching out Obama for Trump – pure insanity. Opposing gun control is one thing; suggesting that keeping our guns will make all our other problems and threats go away, c’mon.