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How I stopped hating guns — and embraced self-reliance
The Blaze ^ | June 12, 2024 | Josh Slocum

Posted on 06/15/2024 5:31:16 AM PDT by Twotone

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1 posted on 06/15/2024 5:31:16 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

If the jugheads re-elect the Demented One, EVERY AMERICAN BETTER OWN A GUN. They’re going to need it.


2 posted on 06/15/2024 5:35:55 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Re “ To be a leftist is to be ruled by fear, disgust, and the projection of one’s own negative motivations onto other people. ..”

Kinda says it all right there.


3 posted on 06/15/2024 5:42:12 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Twotone

no sane person is looking forward to shooting someone BUT in a “them or me” situation the old saying “Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it” applies. the simplest of truths is our Founding Patriot saw where the future was leading LONG before they even knew where it was going. they instinctively knew that government would eventually become overbearing and that the ONLY hope of preserving our freedoms in the future would be for the People to be better armed that the government. Generations of Americans have been indoctrinated to believe that government is the end all, be all of America freedoms but the truth is and always will be this simple...the government will eventually be the “end all” of our American freedoms. IF we collectively allow it. my tagline line is not just a saying. the choice is yours.


4 posted on 06/15/2024 5:47:01 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Twotone

As he noted, the cure for leftism was when it adversely affected him personally


5 posted on 06/15/2024 5:48:41 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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Confrontation with anything they perceive as “right-wing” provokes an almost involuntary emotional reaction

”At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”

~ P.J. O’Rourke

6 posted on 06/15/2024 5:56:01 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Too many of them don’t have the guts to take an honest good hard look at the world and see it as it is, rather than as they wish it were.

eg. in the real world there are bad guys who don’t obey laws. Ergo disarming the good guys is doing active harm since the bad guys aren’t going to obey gun laws anyway. In their fantasy world, they’re always just one ban away from utopia.


7 posted on 06/15/2024 5:57:23 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Twotone

If the person wants to learn to love guns, embrace them, they should Take a walk through downtown Chicago unarmed, flash8ng hand signals, wearing colors ÷wh8ch may or may not be gang colors. If they make it home with o ly minor wounds, their opinion about owning guns will change dramatically.


8 posted on 06/15/2024 6:03:05 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Twotone
Actually I believe that leftists just lack the ability to see the cause and affect connections of their actions. They lack some gene or other.

They can be really smart but still don't see it

Btw the .45-70 is plenty gun for bear. good choice!

9 posted on 06/15/2024 6:03:32 AM PDT by cb
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To: Twotone

Great read. Thanks for posting it.


10 posted on 06/15/2024 6:05:42 AM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: Twotone

Dare we hope that you have started an epidemic? YES.

Great writing. Thanks.


11 posted on 06/15/2024 6:07:06 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Before the Illegal Alien invasion from the South, I heard that there are enough firearms in private ownership in the US were more than enough to supply everyone.

Some homes don’t have them, some have “many”.

In Texas several years ago the it was estimated that there were 2-1/2 firearms per every man, woman, and child privately owned. We’ve had a lot of people moving into Texas, I suspect a lot of them brought their weapons with them. Many of those who did not own a gun, found it a lot easier to buy one here. There are pockets of gun grabbers in places like Austin. Those are the Freaks.

No one really knows how many there are.

I reload, like a lot of people who grew up hunting. I own a few.


12 posted on 06/15/2024 6:08:13 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Twotone

“I can have a gun because I would kill myself with it” seems to be a common sentiment among the anti-gun left.


13 posted on 06/15/2024 6:09:01 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: Thank You Rush

Pardon me - I thought you were the writer. It pays to READ!!! Still great.


14 posted on 06/15/2024 6:09:06 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Texas Fossil

I know you are a Texan


15 posted on 06/15/2024 6:10:27 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Twotone

“I fired it a few times at a target in the back yard “

To me that details the problem with a lot of new gun owners. They seem to feel that they have an innate ability to use it if needed. Much to their dismay they will probably find out in an emergency their aim is anything but accurate. Signing up for instructions on a gun’s characteristics and maybe monthly using it at a gun range may insure you don’t shoot yourself in the foot or one of your family in case of the need to defend your self or family.


16 posted on 06/15/2024 6:12:01 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Twotone

I have to unlock the article for $1?


17 posted on 06/15/2024 6:16:23 AM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: Twotone

Oh, I see you posted the entire article, not an excerpt. Thank you, it is a great article.


18 posted on 06/15/2024 6:21:41 AM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: Twotone

Converts are hard won. Note that there was a RED NECK who said something. That along with the other things.

Folks, Now is the time to use our outdoor voice and often.


19 posted on 06/15/2024 6:37:13 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: The Pack Knight

“I can have a gun because I would kill myself with it”

As has been said in the past, and this proves it, guns don’t kill people, people do. If the gun sat in the corner all night, untouched, who is it stalking? The leftist is stalking himself.

wy69


20 posted on 06/15/2024 6:45:08 AM PDT by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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