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To: TexasCowboy
"I've been looking for that, "Is It Time Yet?", clock for many years."

Don't waste your time looking for one of those. It will never exist.

The excerpt from the article by Claire Wolfe that really caught my attention is:

"And I can’t by any means declare that it will never be me, or thee, or my next door neighbor who discovers one day that it is time to shoot, even if the entire rest of the world disagrees."

You and I grew up during a different time. Most people then were much more self sufficient and less dependent upon the government for their subsistance. Today,entire populations of some congressional districts think they need the assistance of the government to survive. I know better.

If the members of congress want to pass a ban on arms, let them do it! Then, if the people of this country really want to live as slaves. So be it. However, "an increasing number of Alexanders and Dregas, standing on their own individual Concord Greens, will decide: No more."

Semper Fi

123 posted on 07/27/2003 9:55:31 AM PDT by An Old Man (USMC 1956 1960)
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To: An Old Man
When we joined the Corps, you in '56 and me in '58, we had a rallying cry which most of us used, but very few of us knew what it meant.
We didn't say, "OOOOORAHHHH!".
We said, "GUNG HO!"
We used that expression in a number of ways:
"He's a Gung Ho Marine!"
"FALL IN! GUNG HO, MARINES!", etc.

That phrase was coined by Marine Corps Brigadier General Carlson of "Carlson's Raiders" fame when he was a young lieutenant stationed in Shanghai.
It's Chinese, and it means, "WORK TOGETHER!"

That simple adage epitomizes the basic philosophy of the Marine Corps today and in all the years back to 1775.
It's the reason we as recruits had our heads shaved so that we looked just like everyone else. We lost our individuality in order to learn to work as a team.
It works very well in the Corps, and it will work in all of our social and political endeavors as civilians.

No one person can stem this tide of creeping socialism, which is the big picture of what is happening to America today.
The gun grabbers are just another face of the same evil we see on every front today.
It's a concerted effort to force us to our knees and subject us to the whims of an all powerful bureaucracy dictating that we WILL register all of our guns so that they can be confiscated later; we WILL wear some means of identifying and tracking the moves of every individual in America; we WILL be limited to a choice of complete socialism today or complete socialism in our children's lifetime; we WILL become a part of the global community for the betterment of world at the sacrifice of this great country for whom we took an oath to defend to the death.

It's time the real Conservatives of this country stood together in that "GUNG HO" spirit and said, "ENOUGH!",
and be willing to back it up with our weapons while we still have them.

125 posted on 07/27/2003 10:57:19 AM PDT by TexasCowboy (COB1)
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To: An Old Man; TexasCowboy
This is how I portrayed one person deciding when they had crossed their personal Rubicon in my novel.

To Ian Kelby, the obviously contrived stadium massacre, and the resulting semi-automatic rifle ban, seemed like the final bricks in a wall of tyranny being quietly built up higher and higher by the federal government over the course of many years. Kelby had seen the wall rising brick by brick and layer by layer, but instead of merely staring up at it in pessimistic acceptance, he had been quietly making his own plans, and pondering when the wall would, for him, go up one brick too far and then no farther.

Like Joel Friedman, Ian Kelby also had a protest plan. But Kelby’s plan was nothing as elegant or creative as dropping leaflets in front of the network television cameras, while they were recording the celebration of the death of the second amendment. Ian Kelby’s plan was more direct, and simply involved a century-old Russian rifle made for the Czar’s army, and a United States Senator who had shared the stage with the gun-grabbers on the Mall. He considered and he reconsidered, and then he irrevocably made up his mind: the time had come. The rest of this chapter of Enemies Foreign And Domestic, where a gun grabber gets a dose of reality.

146 posted on 07/27/2003 9:03:06 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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