Men's Rights Movement

I can first recall seeing a blond fellow in a skirt talking men's rights circa 1980. I thought seeing his hippie haircut and beard and unusual style of dress that he was merely an attention seeker or avant-garde bohemian. But in the intervening years, I have come to see the wisdom of the men's rights arguments. A particular case is illustrative. I have a friend who I will call Pal. Pal left work early one day to find a strange car in his driveway and the door dead bolted and chained from the inside. He knew his wife was home, her car was under the carport; so he proceeded to look in the windows. When he arrived at the master suite of the one level ranch, he peered through the slats of the Venetian blinds and caught his wife in flagrante delicto. He ran to his front door and kicked it in. This was his only act of violence. He knocked down the door to his own house. For this, Pal who is responsible and self-supporting was labelled a domestic abuser. He had received two collections in the inheritance from his father. One was a belt buckle collection that he had to part with in his subsequent divorce. The other was a five-figure value gun collection that the police seized that day. In Nashville, where this incident occurred, the police are possessed by an anti-gun mania. They melted down these guns including some dating back to the US Civil War. The Second Amendment is made meaningless if the allegations of a vindictive partner or an incident where no violence was committed against a person or even a threat made lead to authorities grabbing guns and forever denying the right of someone who is hardly a menace to society their natural right to keep and bear arms.