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... and I think it would better if you stop giving them excuses to come take our rights away by acting like provocative idiots.Originally Posted by brokenscout
Now if they were smoking reefer, or"occupying", they'd be applauded as courageous and nobody would have a darn thing to say.
And I agree - OC is a "look at me, look at me" in a lot of situations.
True, but at the rate we are going in 10 years we will be talking about the Rights we used to have. I think the march on DC is the wrong way to go, and would be an act of war. Something needs to be done, not sure what. It may be to late.And they do not need excuses, they won't stop till GC is in place
Red,White & Blue means Freedom, until its flashing behind you.
Okay, I have to voice this, to everyone saying "Being a pussy never helped," or "yeah, let's just let them take our rights away," or "If you don't use them you lose them." Blah blah blah. Look folks, there are two ways you can go about accomplishing your goals- the right way and the wrong way. Example, Emily Miller, she's trying to educate and inform so people can do it the right way and get the laws changed. Breaking the law and participating in mass civil disobedience is more often than not the wrong way. We've tried for years to promote the image that gun owners are honest, good, law-abiding, and for the most part we've proven this time and time again (look at almost every single pro-2A rally we've had in America). Well, wad that idea up and toss in the trash if 10,000 supposedly "law abiding" folks come out in force, defiant of the law (however silly and unconstitutional it is) [KEY PHRASE]: IN THE PUBLIC EYE (totally different case with going to WY to buy some new PMAGs after July 1) in such a widely covered area by the media. So this is a terrible idea, and these folks should be working on getting the laws changed, rather than going out in large numbers with the potential for wide scale media coverage, portraying us in a negative light.
"There is no news in the truth, and no truth in the news."
"The revolution will not be televised... Instead it will be filmed from multiple angles via cell phone cameras, promptly uploaded to YouTube, Tweeted about, and then shared on Facebook, pending a Wi-Fi connection."
because doing it "the right way" has worked out so well for "our side" so far....there comes a time when "we" have to decide when "we" have had enough. I've hit that point, you may not have. I just moved to a state that proudly passed the toughest gun laws in the country days after my arrival (they also passed them in the middle of the night, with most people who voted NEVER even bothered to read the complete laws).
I have decided not to comply....I have decided that it's time to stop following the unconstitutional laws that are passed at night, under darkness, and behind closed doors. I am not out looking for a fight, but I will no longer comply either.
Your threshold may be higher....maybe you want to write a strongly worded letter to your representatives....they seem to listen to what their subjects want
At least these people are actually talking about something instead of BSing on a forum, everyone has a choice.
Red,White & Blue means Freedom, until its flashing behind you.
I contend that the general population has always been progun . I believe (and it may be the red hook speaking) that the reason our rights have eroded over the past 40 years, and more so in the last 5 is because there is a vocal minority. A minority that does something besides sit on forums and talk about doing something...they are united, and even if some think that someone's ideas may go too far, they ultimately stick together!
it's something that this thread, and hundreds like it on this forum and thousands like it on other forums, is actually proof of. It's a divide and conquer approach. First it was the hunters, then those that oppose open carry, then just the pistol shooters, then those that only shoot revolvers, then those with .22 , then anything that's not single shot, and finally nobody
Do I think this is the "brightest idea? not at all... but it's something. It beats the hell out of doing nothing, and is 100% better than complaining about the problem and complaining about the people trying to shine a light on the problem.
I've lived in a country without firearm ownership, where even to hunt you had to use an airgun. Many of those people would literally kill to get their rights back
^^+1- Like it.
Actually, it HAS worked for us very well until very recently. Americans today have a much more open mind on firearms and concealed carry than they did 40 years ago, in part because the community demonstrated we weren't the scary psychotics that Diane Feinstein and Chucky Schumer like to paint us. Every recent poll shows Americans much more open to guns and the right of self-defense than they were 40 years ago. The fact that a determined set of extremists has seized control of the legislative and executive branches and proceeded to act from positions of power has nothing to do with the fact that we have been winning the hearts and minds of the general public for the last 18+ years or the possibility that actions which seem to confirm Feinstein's and Schumer's caricatures may lose us those hearts and minds of the general public.
^^^ This.
Not to mention that any arrested may further cripple their own future rights to bear arms.
I will not abide this abomination. (1224)
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