Not all of us are doing nothing. But—we seem to be helpless. Last Tuesday evening I emailed my State Senator and Assemblyman about these issues. I got an autoreply from the Senator. That’s all so far. They both are Republicans. My wife has one more year to work. Indiana is lookig really good right now.
Unfortunately it may be time to choose sides by moving.
Some might say it is indeed too late for you.
NY already had strict gun control laws. The time to have done something was when the prior laws were being put into place.
It’s much harder to cry foul now, when strict gun control has been tolerated for so long.
It’s easy, looking from without, to assume that NY residents want these type of laws, and these type of leaders.
But I don’t think it’s too late to fight.
“Not all of us are doing nothing. But—we seem to be helpless. Last Tuesday evening I emailed my State Senator and Assemblyman about these issues. I got an autoreply from the Senator. That’s all so far. They both are Republicans. My wife has one more year to work. Indiana is lookig really good right now.”
What “BO Stinkss” seems unable to comprehend is that although one may be conservative in a state like New York, conservatives (as a group) simply don’t have enough “in numbers” [politically] to counter the leftists who outnumber them.
There aren’t enough conservatives to elect enough conservative-minded state legislators. There’s no way conservatives can gain enough political power to influence the policies in such states.
That’s why the anti-gun legislation flew through the NY legislature faster than grease through a goose. There was no opposition because there simply weren’t enough elected conservatives to oppose it. Nor will there ever be again in states like New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, etc.
This is the dilemma of being a conservative in a blue state. One may have good, personal reasons for being there — a job, a family history, etc. Very well. But the downside is that by staying, one must accede to being ruled by leftists.
I put up a post to another NY Freeper about this in another thread, not going to repeat it all here. But for conservatives the only options are to stay in a state such as New York, and put up with the diktats of the left — or to get out, to emigrate to another state where the rights of conservatives and citizens in general are more respected.
The country is dividing. It’s dividing into certain areas where one’s Constitutional rights remain important, vis-a-vis other areas where the governments are intent on taking such rights away. And above it all is a federal government that seems to be encouraging the efforts of the latter, supplemented by a Supreme Court that isn’t motivated to do much about it.
Not sure where this will lead.
But wherever that may be, the times will be gettin’ worse before they get better.