Stevie-Ray said:
Or it could backfire, and we'll be faced with a steaming load of new laws.
Perhaps this isn't your intent, but I get really sick of those gun owners who say if we use our rights, the general public might get scared and we could lose those rights. So best tuck them away and don't let anyone see them! Sure, get 'em out and look at them once in a while, and proudly proclaim that we have them, but don't you go messing things up for the rest of us! Oh no, don't exercise your rights, or the Overlords will come down on all of us with both of their hobnailed boots.
Right. :banghead:
Do you think that the men who used the phrase "Come and take them" worried about whether or not things might "backfire"?
I doubt it.
Cassandrasdaddy, the following is your sig line:
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.
Norman Thomas, Co-Founder ACLU
MTN Jack is one of those people who is out there REFUSING to adopt the socialist agenda by ACTION. He isn't just posting on an internet board about it. Do you really believe in fighting against the rot that your sig line illustrates, or are you just content to keep what little bit they have thrown to you for the time being, and be real quiet about it in hopes that no one takes even that little scrap away from you?
Do either of you do anything to further the cause beyond posting on the internet? Huh? Have you spent any money, have you spent any time, working for gun rights in your own locale, or across this nation? Have you called or written your representative, the media, or political action groups? Have you taken any
personal risk to further the rights of gun owners?
There are a lot of people all over the country doing this kind of stuff every day. That is how our rights are sustained, by the actions of those of us who are doing more than second guessing, or worrying about losing our rights if we use them.
GUESS WHAT GUYS????
If you're not using them, you've already lost them! And Stevie-Ray, if your attitude is really what you have written, I suggest that you remove the molon labe from your sig line. I suspect that if this really is your attitude, when they do come to take them, you will hand them over and be thankful nobody spanked you for ever daring to own them.