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To: TexasCowboy
It's difficult to ask for patience after 70 years of losing our Rights. We had a lib and anti-gun government for at least forty years. We now have a moderate government which isn't going to do everything we need. This government promised no more gun control but it would sign an existing gun law back into existance.

All I can say is, I am not going to vote another dem back into office. If I have to wait another four years to get a real Pro-gun President, I will. I see no sense in helping the dems turn back the clock.

Before the vote is taken, I think the best move is to keep calling and make sure the Republicans think we won't vote for them in the election. I'm sure the people who won't vote for them if it's signed outnumber people like me who believe we don't have any choice.
121 posted on 07/27/2003 9:51:06 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
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To: Shooter 2.5
"I'm sure the people who won't vote for them if it's signed outnumber people like me who believe we don't have any choice."

I guess that's the point in which we differ, G.
I think we do have a choice.

During the last election I worked my butt off trying to get Republicans elected to office.
I talked to hundreds of people over the course of three months. Aside from the polling place where I worked as a poll watcher, nearly all of the people I talked with were Republicans.
At least half of the people I talked with said they weren't going to make any effort to vote at all because it would make no difference. In spite of my efforts to convince them otherwise, they were right - it made no difference.

This was not the worn out phrase of "apathy" used by the media to explain poor voter turn-out.
This was a deep, burning resentment toward our federal government from grass roots middle class working people who had never heard of FreeRepublic.
Those people are still out there, and their numbers have multiplied.
I have joined their ranks because I can no longer pacify myself that I have no choice but to vote for the lesser of two evils.

There will be another political party come into being which will address the needs and hopes of middle class America, the backbone of our society. It's inevitable.
I'll wait.

126 posted on 07/27/2003 11:17:27 AM PDT by TexasCowboy (COB1)
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