Jeff Barriault wrote:Y'all would think it unacceptable if, prior to posting a comment on this board, you had to seek approval from the government first. Can you imagine the outrage of having your words checked before you could exercise your God given right to free speech? Why is it so difficult to see background checks in the same light?
Where do you get the idea that anyone on this board is having difficulty seeing that?
As for me, I have made it abundantly clear that I am for Constitutional carry, that I want to return to the days of my youth when I could walk into a Western Auto and buy any gun I wanted.
Jeff Barriault wrote:The law abiding majority of us must seek government approval before purchasing the means to exercise our God given right to self defense all because of the possibility of what someone else may do. Not because of what we might do, but the possibility of what someone else might do. It's absurd. I mean think about it. Do you like having to go to your "daddy" government and asking, "Oh please, please, please, can I buy a gun? I've been a good boy."
Whose fault is that? Ours. We forgot that it was our duty to educate our children and the people around us and fight for our rights. We got complacent.
Even now, while we hang on the precipice and klaxon alarm bells are going off screaming
FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS!!!!, Charles is struggling to get people on this board to join the
Texas Firearms Coalition, even though it's free to join. He needs hundreds of thousands and can't get
200 GUN OWNERS AND SUPPOSED FREEDOM LOVERS to join! It's pitiful and ridiculous. If you're reading this and you haven't joined, spare me the whining about our rights. You don't really care. Your actions prove it. (This is the "royal" you. I'm not pointing at Jeff, to whom I'm responding.)
WE NEED TO WAKE UP! (And yes, I'm shouting.)
We lost campus carry last legislative session because the anti-gunners were more numerous, more active and more boisterous. We will continue to lose until those who
say they stand for our rights are willing to
stand up and be counted and NEVER back down.
In the meantime, we have to deal with reality.
Jeff Barriault wrote:The purchase and sale of guns are not the problem. Evil men (or women) are the problem. To paraphrase Jeff Cooper, the problem of evil men can get corrected by good men with guns. We need to deal with the evil in society and stop intruding into the lives of the law abiding. We don't need more background checks. We need less.
Preachin' to the choir, brother. Preachin' to the choir. Now go tell that to some of your friends, neighbors and co-workers and see what reception you get.
We can continue to whine and complain about losing our rights and stomp our feet and insist we're not going to take it any more, or we can get off our duffs, get active, get motivated, refuse to take no for an answer and turn this country around. I talk guns at work all the time. We now have three people with CHLs, my boss wants to get one and went shooting with me, another co-worker just bought a shotgun and asked me for advice about where to shoot (and obviously I offered to go with him), two more are planning on getting their CHLs, and the flaming liberal in our group gets refuted by me every time he tries to spew liberal garbage.
Gun owners have to get out of their comfort zones. Stop hanging out with like-minded people and get involved in the community. When people ask you about guns make it clear that it's as normal as getting up in the morning and going to work. That you think it's foolhardy to ever be in public without a gun because you never know when the BG might show up. Ask them why they think the 2nd should be any different from the 1st. And never back down from the liberals. Take them on every time they spew their garbage. Write your State Senator and Representative. Call them and talk to them. Get off your duff and go to their local meetings. Speak up. Write national Senators and Congressmen. Let them know where you stand and hold them accountable. Join the NRA. Contribute to NRA-ILA. Vote in every election, but more than that, get others to vote. Don't accept their excuses about how it their vote doesn't count.
Either we get active, and I mean frenetically active, or this country dies and your rights are gone. That's how stark the choice is, folks. The time for talking is over.