MagnumDweeb
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When did being a gun owner mean you were apart of the 'gun culture', 'gun nation', etc.. It's like we are supposed to be a part of some minority, suspect class, or quasi suspect class. Like we aren't somehow normal, or the norm. Forty years ago gun ownership was quite common except for in major metropolitan areas where 'forward thinkers', 'progressives', and other such seeming alien ideas seemed to roam and fester.
Now to some degree we gun owners, those amongst us in a round about way ostracise ourselves from the norm by calling ourselves 'gunnies' which when most of us say it, it is meant as a term of endearment and pride. Gunnies aren't just gun owners, folks who just happen to own a gun, what we do we take seriously and put great focus on the responsibility and tradition of gun ownership. A gunnie is the individual you see at the range working in great depth to be a shooter capable of great prowess with their firearm. Sometimes we also mean it to be we have gained enough skill in a wide variety of firearms that it is not a matter of difficulty to quickly become sufficiently able with most any firearm.
Now do I patronize the gun culture, yes and no. Yes I am undertaking home-build projects, I in future want to have my own little machine shop for unusual projects because at some point I'm going to have my fill of retail purchased firearms and refurbishing a PPSH 43 into a legal pistol or carbine is a challenge of technical and spiritual merit to me. Getting a weld jig for a DPM28 to do a legal semi version of the old Soviet LMG. But do I think standing up for my 2nd Amendment right make me part of the gun culture, no it doesn't.
My 2nd Amendment right is a part of the Bill or Rights, and so is my right to the freedom of speech. And from the Bill of Rights I have a right to privacy and to remain unmolested and unabused by the federal government. I have a right to peaceable gather and affiliate at my choosing. And to have all rights not mentioned in the Bill of Rights not be infringed or subject to limitation because of their lacking mention and labeling in the Bill of Rights.
If they can take our 2nd Amendment rights, whats to stop our freedom of speech from being taken, bad enough you can't say Jesus Christ or God in school, here in Florida you can't in public school nows, ***, but somehow Mohammed or Allah is perfectly acceptable, seriously my god son did it one day while I was doing a drop fin or the teacher to talk about the whole growing up and going through school thing, granted I put him up to it
. If they can take our 2nd Amendment rights what about our rights to due process and equal rights. What about...etc. etc. etc..
Gun owners may only supposedly make up 40% of the nations population, but lets call a spade a spade. It's not so much because Americans stopped owning guns its because those who lack a genuine desire and love for being American have out-reproduced us.
What I have noticed by and large about genuine gun owners is a certain pattern of existence. I'm not saying all gun owners follow this suit because we have a lot of new to fold folks whom otherwise before never wanted to own a gun or participate in gun ownership. Most gun owners I know, are law-abiding, God fearing, responsible legally, fiscally, and morally. I've yet to meet a genuine gun owner with three kids from three differrent fathers. I've yet to meet a genuine gun owner who has been in and out of jail for drinking, unlawful driving or drug abuse. I've yet to meet a gun owner who has lost their job and is desperate and able to suckle at the teet of the federal government handouts. Instead the gun owners who I have known that have lost their jobs go straight to looking for a job and do day labor, and take on blue collar tasks and handyman work for pay. And hell I'll say it, becomminng a gun owner calmed me down. Walking in a dark parking lot after a bar closed down, and the idea of beating a mugger so bad with my bare hands that they'd be in the hospital for a few months of physical rehab and never quite able to walk right, speak right, or properly move their bowels, etc. any of the above, was something I did before I became a gun owner, I've got the scars to prove it. I became a gun owner and I calmed right down. No more putting myself in dangerous positions and getting to lawfully defend myself at a criminal's physical expense. No more mouthing off in loud belligerent rants at people that pissed me off. I got myself a real big education on politeness, diplomacy, and anger management.
If there is a gun culture, then I say it is a superior culture. It is one of the few last remaining vestiges of genuine American expression that harkens back to our founding fathers. We have lost touch in most other areas. We have let a select few rise to power. We have let our politicians become useless, overfed, egomaniacal, avarice ridden, and impotent scum. So I say dammit I'm a gun owner and genuine American and if you can't get with that then that just means you are something the founding fathers would look on in shame and disgust.
Now to some degree we gun owners, those amongst us in a round about way ostracise ourselves from the norm by calling ourselves 'gunnies' which when most of us say it, it is meant as a term of endearment and pride. Gunnies aren't just gun owners, folks who just happen to own a gun, what we do we take seriously and put great focus on the responsibility and tradition of gun ownership. A gunnie is the individual you see at the range working in great depth to be a shooter capable of great prowess with their firearm. Sometimes we also mean it to be we have gained enough skill in a wide variety of firearms that it is not a matter of difficulty to quickly become sufficiently able with most any firearm.
Now do I patronize the gun culture, yes and no. Yes I am undertaking home-build projects, I in future want to have my own little machine shop for unusual projects because at some point I'm going to have my fill of retail purchased firearms and refurbishing a PPSH 43 into a legal pistol or carbine is a challenge of technical and spiritual merit to me. Getting a weld jig for a DPM28 to do a legal semi version of the old Soviet LMG. But do I think standing up for my 2nd Amendment right make me part of the gun culture, no it doesn't.
My 2nd Amendment right is a part of the Bill or Rights, and so is my right to the freedom of speech. And from the Bill of Rights I have a right to privacy and to remain unmolested and unabused by the federal government. I have a right to peaceable gather and affiliate at my choosing. And to have all rights not mentioned in the Bill of Rights not be infringed or subject to limitation because of their lacking mention and labeling in the Bill of Rights.
If they can take our 2nd Amendment rights, whats to stop our freedom of speech from being taken, bad enough you can't say Jesus Christ or God in school, here in Florida you can't in public school nows, ***, but somehow Mohammed or Allah is perfectly acceptable, seriously my god son did it one day while I was doing a drop fin or the teacher to talk about the whole growing up and going through school thing, granted I put him up to it
. If they can take our 2nd Amendment rights what about our rights to due process and equal rights. What about...etc. etc. etc.. Gun owners may only supposedly make up 40% of the nations population, but lets call a spade a spade. It's not so much because Americans stopped owning guns its because those who lack a genuine desire and love for being American have out-reproduced us.
What I have noticed by and large about genuine gun owners is a certain pattern of existence. I'm not saying all gun owners follow this suit because we have a lot of new to fold folks whom otherwise before never wanted to own a gun or participate in gun ownership. Most gun owners I know, are law-abiding, God fearing, responsible legally, fiscally, and morally. I've yet to meet a genuine gun owner with three kids from three differrent fathers. I've yet to meet a genuine gun owner who has been in and out of jail for drinking, unlawful driving or drug abuse. I've yet to meet a gun owner who has lost their job and is desperate and able to suckle at the teet of the federal government handouts. Instead the gun owners who I have known that have lost their jobs go straight to looking for a job and do day labor, and take on blue collar tasks and handyman work for pay. And hell I'll say it, becomminng a gun owner calmed me down. Walking in a dark parking lot after a bar closed down, and the idea of beating a mugger so bad with my bare hands that they'd be in the hospital for a few months of physical rehab and never quite able to walk right, speak right, or properly move their bowels, etc. any of the above, was something I did before I became a gun owner, I've got the scars to prove it. I became a gun owner and I calmed right down. No more putting myself in dangerous positions and getting to lawfully defend myself at a criminal's physical expense. No more mouthing off in loud belligerent rants at people that pissed me off. I got myself a real big education on politeness, diplomacy, and anger management.
If there is a gun culture, then I say it is a superior culture. It is one of the few last remaining vestiges of genuine American expression that harkens back to our founding fathers. We have lost touch in most other areas. We have let a select few rise to power. We have let our politicians become useless, overfed, egomaniacal, avarice ridden, and impotent scum. So I say dammit I'm a gun owner and genuine American and if you can't get with that then that just means you are something the founding fathers would look on in shame and disgust.
