AN OPEN LETTER TO THE BALTIMORE/FERGUSON NEIGHBORHOODS:

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[RandallFlagg]

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE BALTIMORE/FERGUSON NEIGHBORHOODS:

Ya know. I’m convinced that the one thing that would end this Baltimore and Ferguson kind of crap would be to take those people in these areas (those who weren’t criminals and had the maturity and common sense -and I believe a LOT of them do), and get them interested in firearms and the second amendment.

I'm NOT talking to the lawbreakers here. I'm talking to their neighbors, friends and families. You people who broke the law made your choices. You had your chance.

I have YET to take someone to the shooting range, and afterwords hear them say, "AWW! That SUCKED!! I'm NEVER doing THAT again!!"

Here's what we gun owners need to do:

Teach those boys and girls, men and women, Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Sons, Brothers and Sisters gun safety, proper handling, and history of the constitutional right and the recreational sport.

Teach them that this great country recognizes the God-given right of ALL life to self defense.

The tiger has it's claws. The rhino has it's horn. The spider has it's venom. The rattlesnake has it's fangs. We are ALL given the right at birth.

Teach the men, women, and even the children that they alone can defend their families, and don't have to rely on anyone else to do that for them. That includes the government.

Show them all that they can achieve greatness no matter their backgrounds, hardships or handicaps

Explain to them that It is a talent, a skill, and a way of life that can empower and embolden everyone from the youngest to the oldest. From the young Americans who play high school football to those Americans trapped in wheelchairs.

Prove to them that gun owners are the most diverse and inclusive crowd you'll ever want to meet. We ARE friendly, and just jump at the chance to talk about guns with anyone and everyone -no matter their skin color, religion or sexual orientation. We don't care!

And the most beautiful thing about this?

The idea absolutely TERRIFIES those who would keep the above from being able to do so. Those who RELY on the above having to depend on other powers for their well being. Those who DEPEND on those above for their votes.

Do you really want to change the course of your life, and become stronger for it?

Get to know a gun nut.

You'll be ridiculed. You'll be laughed at. You'll be insulted. You'll be ostracized.

But, you'll be wiser, stronger, and more self reliant. You will have more confidence in yourselves.

My door is open.

Talk to me.

[RandallFlagg]

I posted a smaller version of this thought on another thread while I was at work this afternoon. Thoughts?

[MeshugeMikey]

Thanks for saying what need be said!

[JohnBrowdie]

not sure they can read.

[RandallFlagg]

I put it on my Facebook feed, too.
Let’s see what happens.

[RandallFlagg]

Well, it’s true!

We gun nuts just LOVE expanding our territory.
Infecting as many as we can!

[Tupelo]

Teach them to shoot and they will turn the guns on us. But wait they already have.
Sorry , but I say lets them figure it out for themselves.

[MeshugeMikey]

the more the merrier

if the THUGS can be stopped before the escape the ghetto all the better

[familyop]

People in those neighborhoods have been armed for several decades—even old ladies. Over the past few years, they’ve become better armed, probably as much as people in outer suburbs. Having done industrial work or been trained by others who have, many have gunsmithing skills. They just don’t talk about it as much.

Been there.

[Nuc 1.1]

Don’t forget Mr. Flagg the black community has been under unrelenting attack by the Marxist dim’s since LBJs Great Society. The dim’s destroyed their families, took away their dreams, took away their pride, took away their ability to make a living, and slaughter their babies via abortion. And I have only scratched the surface. The first pubbie that articulates this message and provides a vision and plan for a way out will start getting the black vote. Hispanics be ready, you’re next in the Dim’s sights.

[RandallFlagg]

I doubt it, considering I added this to the statement:
“I’m NOT talking to the lawbreakers here. I’m talking to their neighbors, friends and families. You people who broke the law made your choices. You had your chance.”

Perhaps, I’m naive, but these are still Americans.

With the proper guidance, knowledge and motivation, they can still achieve.

They have everything they need to do so in the palms of their hands.
And at the pads at the tips of their trigger fingers.

[RandallFlagg]

And, I think they don’t talk about it much because they don’t want to draw attention from their benefactors.

This would yank the teeth from that shark.

Empowering them to become something greater.

[Lurker]

Just write it in cursive and you’ll weed out a lot of undesirables.

[familyop]

My kids were in a private school in a suburb of a large, western city (some would call it lower-middle class). The younger one was taught to write in cursive in the first grade. We moved to a half-affluent area on the Rockies (some of the families upper-middle class), where there was no private school.

The second grade teacher in the public school there told my younger kid to stop writing in cursive. Pupils there began to learn to read cursive in the third grade and learned to do so fairly well in the fifth.

We need to cut federal pork to state and local governments. If we won’t do that, then the default process will eventually solve the problem for us.

[RandallFlagg]

I’m quite aware of that. ALL of that.
I’m a student of Limbaugh, Levin, D’Souza and Gresham.
But, there is always the force of nature.
That force demands that a being be able to defend itself.

I’m hoping that this would unite us all for the betterment of our Constitutional Republic.

It couldn’t possibly hurt, and it would make us all stronger as a whole.

More freedom is always a good thing.

[RandallFlagg]

I’ve been to Africa.

Met lots of wonderful people.
A lovely woman told this 24-year-old idiot at the time, something that hit me to the core:
“We’re poor, but we’re proud.”

I’ll never forget that.

[Bon mots]

I’ve been to Africa.

Met lots of wonderful people.
A lovely woman told this 24-year-old idiot at the time, something that hit me to the core:
“We’re poor, but we’re proud.”

I’ll never forget that.

I've been to Africa too. They could teach the dingdongs from Baltimore a thing or two.
I also work with an African who is as far from those idiots in Baltimore as I am - the only thing he has in common with them is his skin color.

The image is pretty funny though. Fits for the idiots in Baltimore... not Africa, of course.

[RandallFlagg]

True.
But, I’d only apply that to thew lawless thugs looking for freebies.

Not to the majority in those neighborhoods.

Again. Call me naive.

I’ll still have hope.

[RandallFlagg]

thew = the

[familyop]

"And, I think they don’t talk about it much because they don’t want to draw attention from their benefactors.

There are ordinances and laws (laws by way of states that the cities are in--some cities in some states) against carrying weapons in those cities. That's one reason for the silence. Nearly everyone carries, though. The other reason is that making ownership of firearms known in such a neighborhood is a tactical error, just as it is anywhere.

People in such neighborhoods do participate in technical discussions about firearms around the Net, and most of them are conservative. Most of them don't mention their race but once in a great while, but that's where you can hook up with them for tech. talk.

They are less likely to mix such discussions with politics. Some technical discussion boards don't allow much political speech at all except for Second Amendment related announcements. The political organizations for government interests on both sides have done more to most of us than for us.

I was going to link to a YouTube instructional video on minor gunsmithing by a young black man. But after seeing many of the recent comments here, that probably would not be a good idea. Will PM one to you, RandallFlagg.