JWarren said:
Exactly my point.
No kid is "meant" to turn out like one of the bad examples you speak of.
If you have a chance to tell/show/explain to a 13 year old what is really means to be a man you should. It could make a huge difference to a lot of people.
Up to this point he hasn't done anything wrong yet. All he's done is shot his mouth off on the internet.
With the internet being what it is, that's bad enough.
But it hasn't gotten him in any trouble yet.
If you disregard the language and try to understand the point, he isn't terribly far off the mark on some issues.
We talk about the Founders a lot - what they did was treason at the time and would have gotten them hanged if they had been caught.
They didn't care about "no f'en felony" either.
Lots of people, including many of us, complain about unfair and excessive taxes that don't really seem to benefit our society at all. I know I do. Given the choice, would you still send a chunk of your paycheck to the IRS? I wouldn't. But the ballot box is a better way to get rid of them than the cartridge box (see my above posts about more bullets flying = more people getting hit by them).
I also fear gun confiscation. I can remember the first time I read an American Rifleman in my early teens and how the idea of gun control bothered me so much.
Once again, the ballot box is your friend.
The problems aren't with his opinions. We all still have the right to those.
The problems here are with how he expresses them and the fact that teenagers are kind of prone to just say what comes to mind (I still haven't grown out of that last fault).
My advice to Seth if he show up again:
- Think before you type. Seriously, I'm not trying to be cruel but like I said, stuff like that just draws too much attention.
- Do your own research on our system of government. It could use some improvements but it was built in such a way that we can do that without shooting at each other. If it wasn't it never would have stood for 200 plus years.
- Stop posting about illegal crap. Even if you're just shooting your mouth off you may get way more attention than you originally intended. Fortunately for you, most LEO's aren't as intolerant of you as you are of them. If they were they would be knocking on your front door with 12 gauge breaching rounds right now. LEO's are not your enemy.
- Stop planning to do illegal stuff. It's stupid because you will lose. Even if you are moraly right you will lose. Regardless of what weapons you have, you can't beat a system. Your only hope is to work within that system and make it better. Breaking the law won't accomplish your goals so there is no point in doing it. You want a crash course in guerilla warfare? Only fight the battles you can win - especially in life. Use the ballot box (in 5 years). That can't get you arrested or shot and it's much more quiet than any silencer. And you don't need a Paladin press instruction manual to do it.
Anyway, I'm out of this one too.
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