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It's exactly that attitude that caused guns to have such a negative connotation today. They should be as common as cell phones.Originally Posted by Richard K
I spent my Obama Stimulus money on a GUN!
If people can see me at Walmart with my wife and kids, wearing my gun while protecting my family in a safe manner, maybe we can educate them.
Hiding our guns and hoping they don't notice that we are armed is just short of retarded. The left winged liberals are fighting their fight and you just want to hide your guns and hope nobody notices. JEEEESH!
Richard, I should have known you were a LEO! LMAO! You should be able to carry open but not me! WTF! WTF WTF!
I like this debate. Good points on both sides!
Actually, I need to update my profile. I retired after 36 years. From an LEO perspective I'd prefer open carry since I'd know who was armed. From the perspective of a private citizen and gun owner, I'd prefer that we not inflame non-gun owners and risk more restrictive gun laws.
Rich
If the right for me to "keep and bear arms" inflames a non gun owner, that non gun ownwer can kiss my ass! We cannot be so naive that we think hiding our guns will make the dems go away. They want to take all of our gun rights one at a time. We need to be prepared and ready to fight a good fight to protect our rights. We neeed to recruit everyone we can and declare war on the ones that would stand in our way. There are those in the democratic party that think the constitution is out dated and should be re-written. (Obama) What part of "not to be infringed on" do they not get. I can understand the way that you are thinking but you could not be more wrong. Now is the time for us to exercise the rights we still have and to fight for the ones we have already lost. A right not used is a right that is pissed away.
AND HOW!!!
I spent my Obama Stimulus money on a GUN!
When it comes to our constitutional rights being taken away I lose my cool. I have talked approx 13 of my friends and co-workers into getting their concealed permit this year. I have been directly responsible for close to 50 NRA memberships this year. Even though the NRA is not my favorite I think it serves a purpose. I send pro-gun emais and pm's to all of my co-workers daily. This is the recruitment of which I speak. I do not have my own militia! LOL
The war I speak of is not the shooting of democrats!But defeating them by preserving our Constitution and every single right within it!! We need to recruit the sheeple and open their eyes. Trust me, the Dems and even Obama have noticed all of the millions of rounds of ammo and maybe even millions of guns that have been sold. It's not us being armed that alarms them, it's the sheer number of pro gun and gun owners there are. They don't want to be voted out and we have to let them know they will be if they jack with our constitutional rights.
First of all, thanks, Luckydog! I think your post was the thing that got me thinking of open carry! I guess I was a sheeple, thinking it wasn't even legal. I open carried for the first time today!When it comes to our constitutional rights being taken away I lose my cool. I have talked approx 13 of my friends and co-workers into getting their concealed permit this year. I have been directly responsible for close to 50 NRA memberships this year. Even though the NRA is not my favorite I think it serves a purpose. I send pro-gun emais and pm's to all of my co-workers daily. This is the recruitment of which I speak. I do not have my own militia! LOL
The war I speak of is not the shooting of democrats!
Now for my mini-rant:
Our second ammendment rights have already been largely taken away! The purpose was not for hunting or even protection from BG primarily, but to hold a tyrannical government in check! When it was written, the settlers had the same rifles (a bit better, actually) that the British troops were carrying and that's how they were able to resist, with relatively equal force. Today, we can't have automatics or grenades or rocket launchers (not feasably) and that's strike one against the second ammendment, no equal force. (obviously the military has weapons way out of our reach financially, but the point is most useful weapons have already been legislated against.)
Even the guns we can have, we can't actually "bear". Oh, sure it's our right to "bear arms", but only with a permit or if you're in this city in that state at just the right time and, heaven forbid, not in a school zone. You can have it in your car, but it has to be concealed, no in a case and locked, no the ammo has to be somewhere else.... If they made a law making it illeagal to ________, most everyone would just follow it. That's what's been going on for a long time, and very few stand up against and receive ridicule from gun-owner's as well as non. At what point do you actually use that right to stand against tyranny? I just don't see us sleeping Americans doing anything.
Okay, not so very mini I guess, so I'll </rant> there.
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