Posted on 04/01/2009 4:25:04 AM PDT by marktwain
Some are describing the insight of liberty purists as being paranoid. Is it?
Gun owners are not in love with their precious guns, we are in love with our precious rights. Gun owners and non-gun owners have much more in common than media would have you believe. We all want to live in freedom. Some of us can see the clouds forming, others cannot. Do you believe that once this scandal is over, more Americans will have the same vision as liberty purists have? Will they be made paranoid, or will they have vision?
It's easy to see how the predictions of the anti-gun crowd have never come true with the perspective of reflection, while the fears and apprehensions of liberty lovers have consistently come true over the last several generations, also on reflection. Liberty enthusiasts such as those likely to own guns and understand how the armed citizen and our liberty are connected can see with a very clear vision where the country is headed. It becomes very clear that anti-gun activists are not interested in safety, but taking of liberty and vexing citizen authority which stands in the way. It's that simple.
Paranoid?
Nowhere in the history of firearms has a nation been improved by surrendering its citizen armaments, but made worse with nothing to replace it. The "It-can't-happen-here" mentality will not see that it is happening here in the United States. There is blame on guns and not criminals. With every shooting, there is a call for more gun laws, which never stopped a single crime; they only define them. There is early release and other devices to see to it that thugs roam and come into contact with taxpayers.
Here is one example you may notice as important and not paranoid: the escalation of gun laws, as in the government's call for another so-called Assault Weapons Ban, is most contemporaneous with escalations of the takeover of major industries. Yes, industry's problems may seem to the layman as due to management incompetence, but then banning guns seems related to mass shootings. Both are non sequitur in the mind of the analyst genuinely interested in safety or prosperity and are a clue to the real desires of the socialist.
Even Europe is urging America to slow down on the road we're on, and believe me, Europe knows from Socialism. Europe depends on the U.S. for many things in keeping the world stable. Destabilize the United States and brother you screw up everything.
Then there is the next menacing sign, that many programs are escalating and are going against those campaign promises of transparency and accountability. There was no mention of outright incompetence. In fact, more escalations are occurring, such as China's call for replacing U.S. Currency as a remedy to a crisis some suspicion as fraudulent to begin with.
It's all escalating. Many of those who voted for this administration are now voicing their doubts. Not a good sign so early in the administration.
And the worst menacing sign to notice is how the electorate is ignored. We are forced to go along with these against our better judgment, and even if we're entirely wrong, the real giveaway is how we are ignored. Millions are starting to notice that we are not heeded as the supreme authority here, but one thing must not be forgotten: without gun rights, all the protests will be hollow, because they will not be backed by anything. Crime will be used to make confiscation of guns sound reasonable. It's been tried in the U.S. several times over the last few years, and the owners still do not yet have their guns back in spite of court orders for officials to return them.
Paranoid?
Why would the same people who are worsening the crisis want to take weapons from the people they serve?
Because the gun is a symbol of Independence, and that symbol can be more inspiring to a man or woman than any social program promising the impossible. The armed citizen in fact stops crime, but also does something much more powerful in impeaching dependency, which is the stock in trade of large government: it inspires citizens to understand how little dependency on government is desired on so many levels.
This is why the two are rushed so.
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John Longenecker is author of Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns — Meeting Dependency And Violent Crime With American Spirit, Independence, And Citizen Authority.
Speak for yourself. I love my pretty guns.
But if comes down to it; How many Parotic, God fearing freedom loving Americans are willing stand and possibly die for your beliefs. The forces of evil are everywhere, their power is great. George Washnigton once said something like, “I’d rather die on my feet than bow at my enemies.” It’s time to seperate boys from men, where will you be.?
I spend over 40 hours a week with my Glock snuggled next to me. That’s more time than I get with my wife.
I have a 5 inch barreled Smith 686 that I just acquired that I'm particularly fond of. BEAUTIFUL - factory light blond wood (cocobolo?) grips with finger grooves - it's just GORGEOUS. I really like the looks of my little stainless .357 Rossi lever action carbine, too. People practically take it out of my hands to look at it at the range.
And it never nags you.
BE EVER VIGILENT!
Only when it gets caught on my seat belt. And, sometimes it makes it hard to sit in a normal sized chair.
Ummm, dude, you're beginning to slip into Sledge Hammer territory.
;-)
Right behind you, James!
My Bushmaster is the ONLY black object I love .
And, sometimes skittles, M&M’s and french fry bits build up in the space between the magazine and grip and I have to clean it out. Had a dude try to grab it once, did him just like he was gabbin at my wife.
Have you considered using a Glock butt plug to keep out the debris?
Dude, what if someone asks what the brass thing is? Not many answers other than the obvious. I think I’ll stick with the cleaning regiment every month. A guy trying to defuse a situation should never, ever have anything on him called a “butt plug”.
Oh, I don't know. I hear they've been used to great effect in particularly tense sessions of the Ways and Means Committee...
Sledge HammerWe are HUGE fans. If you rent the DVDs from Netflix, the laugh-track has been removed. Makes it much better...
I LOVE my guns. We work out weekly. I take it out to let it get all the stress it has built up over the week out. You know, when guns read about how bad they are, that they are the reason for all the crime and death in the world, that the UN wants them all melted down. My guns get mad. Then they go out and fire away to relieve the stress. I have several home drawn targets I use. One is a big sign Kick the UN out of the USA with a circle around it and line drawn through it. I enjoy shooting holes through it. I also love to shoot at a photo of Osama bin Laden that I copied off the Internet. There are a couple of others that I run off the Internet to use as targets also.
Dude, you might need some help.... : )
No kidding. Everybody knows that revolvers are better for snuggling. In my case, a Ruger GP100.
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