Gilded Cage Mentality

It seems that more and more people are willing to give up not only their own rights as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, but everyone else's rights along with them just to gain a feeling of being safe and secure.

It's seeming to be a Gilded Cage Complex" where these people think that as long as the walls are padded, the tools, utensils and everything else they use are made of nerf and the doors and windows are 2 inch thick bullet-proof glass, everything will be OK. 

What they fail to understand is that nothing, no-one and no-how can the government or any other group make such a guarantee.  It's not possible, it's not realistic.

To be utterly honest, not even sleeping is "safe".  Our lives are fragile and fleeting.  Death and danger surround us  our entire lives.  You cannot escape or avoid them entirely.

You would build a gilded cage for everyone, begging to be protected and kept safe.  Your fear and lack of courage threatens not only your lives, but everyone around.  Even those who who accept those risks in life for themselves and live it to it's fullest.

You do not have that right to make such decisions for everyone else.  America was made for individuals, not groups or classes.  It was not made for a minority to control what the majority does and the minority are protected when a seeming majority wants to force it's way on everyone else.

You have the right to go hide from life and live in fear as a frightened rabbit if you so choose.  I have the right to walk free and take on the challenges of life as they come, regardless of the outcome.   I accept that inherent risk for myself.

America was never meant to be a gilded cage.  It was meant to be somewhere every individual could live their own life and be their own person.  You have no right to try to change that.