Posted on 02/15/2014 8:51:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
What's your line in the sand?
When do you finally say, "Enough," decide to sell your house, pack up your things and move your life to another state that offers more freedom and liberty?
For me and my family, the straw that broke the camel's back was the ludicrous and oppressive gun legislation enacted last year in Connecticut by progressive Democrats and weak-kneed, unprincipled Republicans.
We are gun owners. We had been members of Connecticut Citizen's Defense League and many other Second Amendment and liberty organizations. There was no way we were going to submit to registration of anything that we owned, nor were we going to be restricted in defending ourselves by limiting the number of bullets in our magazines as a result of the state's new gun laws.
Our guns did not kill those children in Sandy Hook, and yet Connecticut wanted to punish us for it. We are cheering for those who have decided not to register and we respect others who decided not to risk becoming instant felons. Our choice was simply to leave.
Nothing in the new gun laws would have prevented Adam Lanza from murdering. Being students of history and both descendants of Holocaust survivors, my husband and I are aware of the gun control, citizen disarmament agenda. We decided we would have no part of registration and the subsequent confiscation that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and his cohorts thirst for. We understand fully that gun control isn't about guns, it's about control.
We decided not to put our ability to defend ourselves in jeopardy, especially after the Cheshire home invasion. In speaking to legislators such as Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, and Sen. Martin Looney, D-New Haven, we understood full well that they were not finished and that more anti-Second Amendment legislation was forthcoming. It's just a matter of time before they place high taxes on ammunition and heap other crazy requirements on gun owners in Connecticut with the sole purpose of making it impossible to own or use a firearm.
The Republican minority was complicit in destroying constitutional rights in Connecticut, so we couldn't even go to Senate Minority Leader John McKinney of Fairfield or House Minority Leader Larry Cafero of Norwalk for help. We decided not to stick around for yet another election cycle to stop this insanity, because progressive culture and uninformed voters continue to elect people who erode our rights.
It was time to leave Connecticut. It's a state riddled with political corruption, which has ripped Second Amendment rights from citizens while taxing them to death and redistributing wealth to illegal immigrants and nanny state freeloaders.
We are not alone in our decision to leave Connecticut. The exodus has begun in earnest as people clamor to move anywhere where there is more economic opportunity, smaller government, less crime and more freedom. Their children have already left the state because there are no real career jobs to be had. Texas, Montana, Wyoming, Tennessee, North Carolina are some choices for people who are leaving, but we decided on New Hampshire.
The motto "Live Free or Die" is not taken lightly here. There's no state income tax and no sales tax, and gun rights are still intact. All it took was $10 and a short form to get our concealed carry permits. We can walk around all day with holstered guns and no police will bother us and the citizens don't freak out either. It's one of the safest states in the country, too. People here understand that guns are tools and are not to be banned just because they look scary. We can hunt and set up our own shooting range on our property without anyone saying we can't.
I take much satisfaction in knowing that my state representative and senator are committed to preserving Second Amendment rights. A gun control bill was soundly defeated just this past week by liberty-loving New Hampshire legislators.
There's a growing liberty community here as well, as a result of the Free State Project, and they are working to keep New Hampshire free. Freedom to live as you choose without a big nanny state government behemoth dictating how you live is quite refreshing.
Judy deserves a big atta-girl.
I approve,,,,But carefully. We must not forget what has happened in Colorado as disgruntled people move from socialist states into free ones,, and then soon begin to create the socialist policies they found comfortable.
If you move to a free state, its all or nothing. We don’t want you if its socialism plus owning a gun you want. You have to embrace the whole enchilada. We like fracking, BBQ, religion, schools that do not teach America hate, marriage the way it was supposed to be, etc,,,,
Um... You can’t set up a shooting range in town, so they must have bought way out of town with some serious acreage.
We almost pushed Constitutional Carry through in New Hampshire in 2012 when the Republicans had a super-majority in the house and majority in the Senate. The bill got to the Rat governor’s desk, and he of course vetoed it. The Republicans overrode several vetoes that year and voted on it again, but didn’t have enough votes to override this veto (by a small amount). They figured, ‘oh well, we’ll get it next year when we have a new Republican governor.’
But, nope, the residents of the state elected a new Rat governor Maggie Hassan and switched the House to Rats. They probably won’t ever get a chance again at Constitutional Carry.
Judy: Welcome to the old Bill Loeb “free territory” of New Hampshire.
Now you will have to fight the red hordes from NY and Massachusetts who want to turn Manchester into “Little Moscow”.
Send them packing like the snows did to Napoleon’s armies.
Is the Fighting in Conn.?
“I approve,,,,But carefully.’
I agree... I live in Idaho, and a lot of people seem to be inclined to move here from the left coast. We really don’t want them if they are going to bring their B.S. with them...
Yes, co has been polluted by liberal idiocy. I for one intend to ignore the magazine law. If I want additional magazines I will buy them.
In Texas we like our guns, AND WE WILL KEEP THEM!
I second that whole-heartedly.
Tell that to David Koresh. While the Davidian compound may have had a lot of guns, they also had a lot of people. There were probably fewer firearms per adult in that compound than the average Texas home at the time the ATF attacked. They did a lot of damage and killed a lot of people over a couple of tax stamps.
I’ve kind of lost track since the CO magazine disaster, and Magpul’s departure. Has there been much in the way of pushback, and are there plans by any conservative CO politicians and/or groups to undo those laws?
She can move if she wants. I’m in Colorado, and plan to stay and fight.
Given the scale of CT abuses and the future political picture she noted, I’d say her choice was a different matter from the CO situation. CO caught the problem early and made the morons pay a political price while there was no such pushback possible in CT. In addition, the CO sheriffs have stiffened their resolve there while there is no equivalent in CT. Leaving the field where there is an untenable defensive position while preserving your ability to fight another day seems prudent to me. YMMV...
I applaud them for their tough decision but I also grieve that any state has to be abandoned to the leftist cruds.
Never forget that Hillary Clinton, Billy Jeff’s enforcer, met with Gov. Ann Richards shortly before the massacre of innocent women and children in Waco by federal forces. She is the current Democrat front runner for president. Your constitutional rights are never safe when Communist Democrats are in charge of the government.
hate to say it.. Texas is turning blue before your very eyes.. You have a Rat infestation problem and they are running to your state for the jobs. They are bringing the very crap they created in the last state.
They need to be educated that the problem they fled from is of their own creation.
Good luck!
Good for you! One wonders whether the liberals will get the message, though, being so dead set on reforming society to what they think is desirable.
I’m starting to think about the direction of the state in which I live, Virginia. It won’t take much to get me to leave if the northern carpetbaggers gain more and more control.
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