Posted on 10/19/2014 3:37:59 PM PDT by ModernDayCato
When I asked the guys at The Sportsman in New Holland, PA if they want to see my CT certificate for the ammo purchase. With intense indignation the reply was, “No sir, We are free men in this state.”
My heart was crushed. I realized I was the frog in a pot of cold water with the flame under it.
Sigh.
Thanks for the essay. I just moved to Newtown a couple weeks ago. It really is a very nice town here. People are very friendly here and many of the towns here in Fairfield county lean conservative - which is a nice surprise, being that I came down here from Massachusetts.
It was the most poorly planned and poorly organized civil defense drill I've ever seen in my life. Even the local PD were in mixed uniforms, one white shirt about 250 lbs. over weight had trouble keeping up with the other members in SWAT gear "marching nowhere". I used to march in annual parades as a volunteer fireman and we knew how to stage up and join the parade. What really got me was Chris Wallace crying while he interviewed family members of the "deceased" and they smiled emotionless back at him.
Yep. We are all in on it. All 28,000 residents of Newtown. 50 law enforcement agencies. The coroner. The first responders. The 500 students and their families. And no one has leaked. I’ll have some of what you’re on.
Re the “Sandy Hook families,” the media did the same thing with “9/11 families,” and “the Jersey Girls,” i.e., the relatives who agree with the media are cast as ALL the families and do get ALL the attention. It’s simply amazing how that works.
Where was this essay when we needed it in March and April when the gun control laws were being “discussed” by the CT legislature before being passed. (Not that it would have helped to prevent the passage of this insanity)
Nice write-up.
I take I-84 from PA to MA a few times a year. Never stop in CT. No gas, no food, nothing.
The gas especially is overpriced.
Well thought out and well written. Suggest sending to NRA for publication in their monthly magazines.
Connecticut ping
Why stay "underground"? Why don't you start getting very vocal and stand up to the bullies? I don't understand.
And...... all first responders including state troopers told to stay away....... emergency air lift helicopters not called to respond...... no emergency traffic got to the school...... no company did the bio-hazard cleanup of all the blood and guts after the event....... Sandy Hook children seen singing in a music group at the super bowl game. CT troopers have quit their jobs over the fraud......
Thanks!! Many Americans would really appreciate that closure now that you admit it.
We had a school shooting about a year ago in Reno. The shooter and a teacher dead; within a few minutes it was over. Cops were pouring in for hours afterward from over 100 miles away.
I live on the west coast, but was in Sandy Hook last week for a family event. My nephew loaned me his truck, adorned with Pro 2nd Amendment and NRA stickers. I was pleasantly surprised; all the feedback I received was positive, not a word of complaint.
Respectfully, I know it seems like only last year, but the shooting took place in 2012. Thanks for your essay.
You’re the first person to notice I screwed up the date. It does seem like only a year sometimes.
As for why gun owners are underground in Connecticut and surrounding states is, I guess, just because we’re tired of hearing that we’re the bad guys (and gals) and we need to be controlled.
The other reason for me and many of the people I know is that we have businesses in town and can’t afford to publicly antagonize our customers. We all work one on one though, and sometimes we change minds.
The police chief of the next town over lives in Newtown. He actually is a nice guy. He testified when they were considering passing the law they passed that no one has given him a reason why anyone needs more than 10 rounds in their gun. It reminded me of Cuomo’s famous “nobody needs more than seven rounds to kill a deer” statement.
That’s what we face. People in Connecticut lean liberal, even in relatively conservative places like Newtown. They were negative about guns to start with, and the shooting just made it worse for some.
I fully understand.
My nephew has the luxury of being 24 years old, so he has no qualms about his public support, of the 2nd Amendment. Ironically, two of his cousins (other side of the family) were in the classroom, next to the “site” in Sandy Hook. He relates that he has heard so much feedback, expressing that the brave teachers that were there, that day, had been carrying. Seems like we could learn a lesson.
I moved from CT in 1981, to a western state. It saddens me, that the New England cradle of the American Revolution, has become a place where Our Constitution is barely recognizable.
May The Lord Bless you, and all of those who stand for our inalienable rights.
Thank you.
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