"It started with a coffee date. Now I'm married with kids. How the heck did that happen?"
How indeed? Life sneaks up on us. Change occurs in tiny increments. Before you know it, the order of life has been inverted.
It's the same with the law. Aristotle knew what he was talking about
when he wrote "Jealously maintain...the spirit of obedience to law, more
especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived
and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small
expenses in time eats up a fortune."
The California slippery slope of anti-freedom legislation – whatever
the political agenda – has been a model for the rest of the nation. This
is the ceaseless, incremental strategy of the California gun control
movement that continues to this day. On gun control, thankfully, the
rest of the nation has mostly failed to follow. But here in the Golden
State, the Golden Rule of gun control has always been to swipe freedoms
one small step at a time. Over, and over, and over again.
The "slippery slope" is legal jargon for the decline of a rule or law
once exceptions are made. It matters not if it is religious law, the
Bill of Rights, or even the rules you make for yourself – the first step
is one tiny “exception.” Pass a law that chisels one corner off a
right, and after a while another politician will want to lob off another
corner. Soon, the cherished right ceases to exist – death of your right
by incremental steps. California is now the poster child for gun
control's inevitable civil rights mud slide into history's open grave.
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