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Posted on 10/20/2017 5:26:35 AM PDT by rktman
That is still an unconstitutional infringement upon your second amendment rights. Some liberal bureaucrat can easily slip some false information into your dossier, and you can be denied that right.
Anyone who should not be allowed to be armed in public should not be running around loose!
I started after the second amnesty attempt during the Bush administration when the scales fell from my eyes and I saw that the GOP was importing cheap labor for their donors, the country be damned. They have been working against us since GHWB.
Virginia is now crawling with MS-13 and what was once a safe nice place to live is becoming less so every day.
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The decision to allow the illegal alien inundation was made by GWHB. It was his job to implement the enforcement parts of the 1986 amnesty. The borders have been open since then and BOTH parties have been actively preventing us from stopping the invasion.
I didn’t wake up to it until 2006 when they tried again for amnesty, by the time they tried for the second time, I had started shooting regularly.
The illegal alien inundation was intentional, they are changing the demographics of the country on purpose.
IMO one of the reasons should be because it’s my duty to own and be proficient in weaponry capable of defending me, my loved ones, the community and this Constitutional Republic. The least one can do for the citizens out on the pointy tip of the spear in the military is to allow them some level of comfort knowing competent armed people remain at home prepared to step up to the plate if needed.
BFYTW is a good answer.
That's easy....because of the horrific shooting in Las Vegas...
I can’t speak for others, but I can speak for myself:
1) Yes, personal defense and target shooting are 2 of the reasons that I own firearms. The former need can arise at any time, and the latter allows for having some fun while practicing for both the former and Reason #2.
2) However, the primary reason that I own firearms can be summed up in 3 words: my family history. My mother’s side of the family had about 100 people murdered by the Nazis (German Leftists) in the Holocaust, and my father’s side of the family was heavily and continuously victimized by the Communists (Russian Leftists) for about 75 years, including my great grandfather having been beaten to death in 1937 at age 74. When I first found out about the Holocaust (in general terms - not pertaining to my family), the first question that I ask my father after “Why would the Germans do that?” was “Why didn’t they (the Jews, and other victims) fight back?” Among the reasons is that they were very strongly constrained from being armed by the laws of the places where they lived. I resolved at that moment to NEVER go like a sheep to the slaughter.
As I have gotten older and studied history more, I have become even more hard-core in my beliefs about firearms ownership. At one time, I believed that this nation was “forever” and that nothing would ever change its nature...and, we see how that’s worked out. I fear and despise American Leftists just as much as the German and Russian ones that victimized my family. I KNOW that they will do just as much evil, just as soon as they are able to do so (which won’t happen until we are largely disarmed). I think that it is instructive to consider how badly the government treats us NOW - when there are some 400 million guns in private hands. Now consider what those in power (or those who aren’t, but who thirst for it) would treat us if those guns were substantially eliminated.
I own guns because I place the ultimate value in our liberties, and because I know that without guns the American people would soon lose those liberties. I will not allow that to happen - at least not for free.
Mrs rktman’s family spent a long time in a relocation camp because the nazis didn’t like that they had moved to Yugoslavia and were being forced back to the mother land. Oppa spent his time as a conscripted cook. So, yeah her mom and aunt (both now deceased) had plenty of horror stories even though they weren’t Jewish. She gets a little irate hearing the assclown snowflakes tossing that around.
Because God endowed us with certain inalienable rights.
My answer: BFYTW.
That is still an unconstitutional infringement upon your second amendment rights.
Many places it is still legal to buy guns without a background check.
“Why is gun ownership so high in the US?”
Because homes are made of wimpy wood instead of stone.
I was horrified when I first came to the USA and saw the way the houses were constructed. I would laugh at the wimpy walls I could just punch through, the main doors with a huge decorated glass centers, the wimpy windows which one could just push or pry open. I thought, woa! Americans must be angels without a criminal thought in their minds!
It felt weird to live in a home without a six foot bordering cement wall (with broken bottle glass on the top edge) and without an automatic metal driveway door.
Where I came from, all walls are made of brick and cement, all doors are double doors, the outside made of steel, all windows have steel bars.
My eyes were slowly opened once I learned about the gun culture and gun ownership in Texas. Needless to say I bought my first five guns there.
There is no way we could live with the freedom and the types of homes we have here in the USA without gun ownership and the second amendment.
The author makes valid points. But I owned firearms long before I recognized those issues as important.
I bought my first firearm back in the 1980’s when I was in my early 20s. I had been interest in firearms long before. My older brother had sparked my interest and taught me to shoot.
My real love for firearms was in their beauty of their design and workmanship of the craftsman that implemented that design.
Since that first firearm I have bought many more; new and used. And even after all of the years since, I am still in awe of the beauty of each and every one. Some of them are well worn and inexpensive firearm but they still evoke in me the feeling that these are some of the finest works of man.
Yes the right to defend yourself is an important point and the world we live in grows more dangerous with each passing day but to me owning a firearm, any firearm is owning a piece of art. And I value the least expensive of my firearms above the any work of Jackson Pollock
We have a second amendment so that we can be prepared to kill tyrants.
Kiling criminals, animals, and inanimate objects is just along for the ride.
I would still be happy that others own guns even if I did not.
Because, America!
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