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I'm Fed Up
roboman
Member Posts: 6,436
After reading a number of responses from a post about a recent anti-gun video, I find myself extremely frustrated.
The majority of the responses to the ridiculous, albeit effective video were nothing but jokes. Is the entire Assault Weapons Ban a laughing matter to everyone on this board? I don't know about everyone here, but I am completely against any form of an assault weapon ban. Personally, anti-gun advertisements such as the one recently shown scare the heck out of me. If we continue to stand on the sidelines cracking jokes at a strong opposition then we'll one day be left with nothing but single shot break-action .22s, if that.
Even though I just recently had a full bloom in my interest in firearms, I feel intensely passionate about this subject. if someone can provide me with a link to each and ever senator and house representative for each state, I promise I will write each and every one with expressing my opposition to the current and any future assault weapon bans. I can even promise that these letters won't be rants, they'll be concise and properly-worded.
Though I was only 9 when the ban of 1994 was passed, I feel as though I can genuinely make a difference here. Everyone who shares a love for gun rights and the bill of rights in general should feel the same as I. We need to protect the second amendment from further legal encroachment. If this was the first amendment being moved in upon, the entire nation is up in arms.
So please, I urge everyone who cares about their gun rights to write a pleasant and genuine letter to their senators and house representatives. We need to make a difference here, starting now. So please, no more jokes. Instead, positive action.
The majority of the responses to the ridiculous, albeit effective video were nothing but jokes. Is the entire Assault Weapons Ban a laughing matter to everyone on this board? I don't know about everyone here, but I am completely against any form of an assault weapon ban. Personally, anti-gun advertisements such as the one recently shown scare the heck out of me. If we continue to stand on the sidelines cracking jokes at a strong opposition then we'll one day be left with nothing but single shot break-action .22s, if that.
Even though I just recently had a full bloom in my interest in firearms, I feel intensely passionate about this subject. if someone can provide me with a link to each and ever senator and house representative for each state, I promise I will write each and every one with expressing my opposition to the current and any future assault weapon bans. I can even promise that these letters won't be rants, they'll be concise and properly-worded.
Though I was only 9 when the ban of 1994 was passed, I feel as though I can genuinely make a difference here. Everyone who shares a love for gun rights and the bill of rights in general should feel the same as I. We need to protect the second amendment from further legal encroachment. If this was the first amendment being moved in upon, the entire nation is up in arms.
So please, I urge everyone who cares about their gun rights to write a pleasant and genuine letter to their senators and house representatives. We need to make a difference here, starting now. So please, no more jokes. Instead, positive action.
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Relax,young feller..it will all be over soon,and it won't hardly hurt..at least,for the first few years,anyway..
God,Guts,& GunsHave we lost all 3 ??
Eric
God,Guts,& GunsHave we lost all 3 ??
The news media makes every effort to show the bad side of firearms and very little if any to show the good. This is what drives the antigunners effort to get them all. The unknowing American public see it "live at 5:00" and they want all guns gone, and are more than willing to vote them out when the opportunity comes.
Its sad, because as the saying goes, "when they outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns".
If this happens, these people have only themselves to blame for not having this right to protect their families lives or property.
As for everyone else, if this happens. I will be an "outlaw" and damned proud of it.
Bolt
PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER
and yep..I suggest you do nothing at all about slowing the jugernaunt
of Socialism.Read 'Atlas Shrugged"..if you want ideas of what to do.
God,Guts,& GunsHave we lost all 3 ??
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Don't go blaming the beer. Hank Hill
So much Ice, So much Beer. So little time. Shooter4
I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now that I am grown, I just wish I could act like a child and get away with it.
Today it is a freight train..nearly unstoppable.Look around you..for Gods sake..tell me how some one can stand up in front of a microphone and prattle on about 'protecting the Constitution"..and talk about signing an assult weapons ban?..To support ANY gun law indicates one of 4 things..
1 :One is terminally insane;
2: One is a da** lier;
3: One is a Socialist;
4; One is so terminally stupid as to defy description.
No amount of begging at this late date will accomplish anything except delay the inevitable..and the precious NRA that people rave about is comprised of Quiselings at the upper level.
God,Guts,& GunsHave we lost all 3 ??
As for roboman, I'm one guy you will never see not minding the loss of our rights to the type of black guns with an arbitrary list of features known as assault weapons. You will also, I hope, give me some credit for all the many letters I've written to various large media, which have been published, laying out in terms even a child can understand why these weapons have no business being made illegal anywhere there are free people (not even Kalifornia) in the United States of America.
As for the ban, remember we just had a China/Norinco ban and without skipping a beat the importers started bringing in product from other countries like Turkey to fill the gap. Make imports legal and you WILL see new offerings coming in.
T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
EXCELLENT point about selfishness..anyone reading 'Atlas' I would think would pick up on that.
The aspect I am aiming for..is for good people to withdraw from a system going bad..and let it fall of its own rotteness..witness California.
God,Guts,& GunsHave we lost all 3 ??
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Oh yeah-If I had to pick a novel that best represents our present circumstance? Brave New World
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once"
-David Hume
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One man can make a difference. It has been proven throughout history.
Write those letters and keep trying to get others to write also.
Politicians are supposed to be "representatives" of the people, (haha) but if all they hear is the anti-gunners....well.....
While one man is OK, many are better. You are right, in that IF we could all get together (at the same time) and challenge the anti-gunners. We would stand a good chance of winning. One problem is getting everyone together at the same time. Who is going to lead us? (do not look to the NRA for this one) When will it happen? What will be the final straw? Will the "authorities" allow it to happen? They do not want to loose power. With the patriot act in effect, they could call us terrorists, and get away with just about anything.
Just imagine if you will...
If there was only 40% of the registered voters who actually voted in a major election. (not hard to imagine, is it?) You go out and find 5 people who did not vote. If you convince only two of them to vote, that is 40% of the non voters. Add that to the percentage of voter who turned out to vote in the first place (for a cause), and you could easily have a overwhelming majority voting for a "cause." Only problem is that there are quite a few who will not vote for the "lesser of two evils" What we need are "representatives" FOR the people. They are few and far between.
Is Highball right in his belief in, and even encouragement of , a coming revolution? I do not know. It could come to that. Will the people (sheeple) wake up in time? I doubt it. If it comes, it will not be pretty. While we have the "best" on the plant over in Iraq, our men are getting killed daily. It would be the same kind of fighting here, if that were to happen.
The gene pool needs chlorine.