Derek summed it up well in his post, early on.
It *IS* bleak out there. Just as it happened last time, the media is 100% biased and virtually everyone who is getting substantial camera time, is in favor of gun control. Gun rights activists are being labeled as crazy lunatics, who care more for their evil black plastic and metal rifle, than for the welfare of the innocent children. (Who deserve a vote. A simple vote.)
Those who insist that our fundamental right is based on the ability to resist a tyrannical government are being ostracized and ridiculed. "What will you do when the Government knocks on your door with an Apache gunship?" (Coalition to Stop Gun Violence activist asked me that during a debate, I answered "Apache pilots who fire on US citizens have to sleep somewhere, don't they?")
The States' Rights issue is front and center. We're seeing states polarized by this, and other issues. That they were ALREADY polarized by serious, and compounding Federal abuses of power don't make this any easier.
What the Government is starting to realize is that while most United States Citizen will absorb heavy taxes, body scanners when traveling, and restrictive, oppressive laws with depressed resign, a small (but growing) percentage of individuals have for quite some time drawn their "line in the sand" with firearms.
Because those people realize that as bad as it is, it could easily be 1000x worse if our domestic situation takes a sudden turn for the worse. When I was young, my great grandmother (who was a young woman through the great depression) talked to me about life when she was young - she was born in 1912. Until Alzheimer's started stealing her from us, she wasted NOTHING. I mean, every consumable resource that could possibly be reused, was.
What she went through, in the 30's, shaped the entire rest of her life. Even when the decades of wasteful abandon and excess started in full swing (80's-present), she never wasted anything or failed to save a penny.
Watching my children grow up in this world, having to constantly work to raise them with a set of values that parallels my own, instead of what is broadcast on the television, is exceptionally difficult.
I do NOT like the way the world is heading.
I do NOT like that individual freedom and freewill is being subjugated by the central authority.
And make no mistake, my right to free speech, along with my other natural rights, are protected by my right to bear arms - now, until the day I'm pushing up daisies.
There's a lot at stake if we lose this fight. An awful lot.
It *IS* bleak out there. Just as it happened last time, the media is 100% biased and virtually everyone who is getting substantial camera time, is in favor of gun control. Gun rights activists are being labeled as crazy lunatics, who care more for their evil black plastic and metal rifle, than for the welfare of the innocent children. (Who deserve a vote. A simple vote.)
Those who insist that our fundamental right is based on the ability to resist a tyrannical government are being ostracized and ridiculed. "What will you do when the Government knocks on your door with an Apache gunship?" (Coalition to Stop Gun Violence activist asked me that during a debate, I answered "Apache pilots who fire on US citizens have to sleep somewhere, don't they?")
The States' Rights issue is front and center. We're seeing states polarized by this, and other issues. That they were ALREADY polarized by serious, and compounding Federal abuses of power don't make this any easier.
What the Government is starting to realize is that while most United States Citizen will absorb heavy taxes, body scanners when traveling, and restrictive, oppressive laws with depressed resign, a small (but growing) percentage of individuals have for quite some time drawn their "line in the sand" with firearms.
Because those people realize that as bad as it is, it could easily be 1000x worse if our domestic situation takes a sudden turn for the worse. When I was young, my great grandmother (who was a young woman through the great depression) talked to me about life when she was young - she was born in 1912. Until Alzheimer's started stealing her from us, she wasted NOTHING. I mean, every consumable resource that could possibly be reused, was.
What she went through, in the 30's, shaped the entire rest of her life. Even when the decades of wasteful abandon and excess started in full swing (80's-present), she never wasted anything or failed to save a penny.
Watching my children grow up in this world, having to constantly work to raise them with a set of values that parallels my own, instead of what is broadcast on the television, is exceptionally difficult.
I do NOT like the way the world is heading.
I do NOT like that individual freedom and freewill is being subjugated by the central authority.
And make no mistake, my right to free speech, along with my other natural rights, are protected by my right to bear arms - now, until the day I'm pushing up daisies.
There's a lot at stake if we lose this fight. An awful lot.