My reply to the "1000 posts" silliness. Please read. Important.

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Rachen

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YAY Folks!

But come on. We have a long battle for our constitutional rights ahead of us, and all we care about is this? It reminds me of these posters on other forums that always go "first post, first post".

I was just on NY Newsday dot com and was looking at the political section, where they have all the different issues that the candidates stand on. Saw illegal immigration, abortion, healthcare, the usual stuff, but not one mention about gun rights.

Not a good thing guys, not a good thing at all. They are trying to bait us again, make us think they won't do anything slimy and putrid with our cherished Constitution.

So, congrats on those with the 1000 posts, but come on people! Lets try getting a thousand people into the NRA each day. Remember what Mr. John Sigler and Mr. Wayne LaPierre said about our strength in numbers.

If we don't start uniting our ranks now, we are going to get acid splashed on our face again, and unlike 1964, we ain't going to have another Gun Owners' Protection Act to cover our burns with.

So guys, let's realize the gravity of this situation.

We have a lot to do.
First, we have to eliminate the discrimination and horseplay between gun owners. Like the .45 crowd versus the 9mm crowd. Or benchrest shooters versus combat shooters, or centerfire shooters versus blackpowder........etc............That stuff is only going to hurt us and let the antis come in and try to bite us. Lets stop it now.

Second, we gunnies don't have an effective method of communication so we can alert each other to the latest breaking news. So what happens if some school in Atlanta starts pulling some Stalin-style brainwashing on our kids. And the folks in Georgia backcountry don't even know whats going on and fails to warn their own kids about these dangers at school? Yes we have THR and other stuff but how many American gun owners actually come on here and share and talk? Only a small percent. Yes only a small percent. The majority of them is in the dark about current issues. Like I said on another post I made in the activism forum, we have to start putting superior technology to use. We have emails, cell phones, IMs, etc....... at our disposal. Lets put them to work and establish a communal network between every single conservative and libertarian who cares about their country. Doesn't hurt to work together and build a communications network so we can all be alerted to latest civil rights issues.

It seems like the gun banning Libs have the power of hundreds of supercorporations and multi national companies behind them to push their twisted pervertedness. If we don't start working together, we are going to be consumed.

Understand people? We have a a lot to get done, and we should start working together now so we can rebuild our political infrastructure that the fake conservatives and neocons have damaged.

Unless we want our future generations to be detained in concentration camps and mass book burnings becomes a sport.
 
Unless we want our future generations to be detained in concentration camps and mass book burnings becomes a sport.

Comparing a celebration of the thousand post mark to the holocaust might be a bit over the top.
 
Comparing a celebration of the thousand post mark to the holocaust might be a bit over the top.

I was just saying what is going to happen to this country if we let down our guard. A la "Fahrenheit 451". Mr. Bradbury predicted our future for us if we don't get our act together.
 
Uh, yea.

Seriously, this board creates enough 2A support and activism, I think the occasional "1,000th Post" post is allowable.

Heck, if nothing else, I'd think that those of us who have been around to post 1,000 posts (or more! a fine fellow by the name of SM comes to mind!) can be allowed a little leeway.

I mean, I hear what you're saying - I just think you might be a little too concerned about something that doesn't really detract from all the good that this forum does.
 
I didn't mean to be so humorless, but I just went onto Newsday dot com, and got pretty scared that the candidates don't even have gun rights as part of their agenda.

I have been doing some research of my own lately, been browsing on other gun forums, and realize there is just so much we have to do to start rebuilding our infrastructure and strengthening our defenses. The insults and blows that different sports shooters throw at each other, such as the competition shooters arguing with combat shooters and the like makes me SICK!

There is plenty of openings in our community making us vulnerable to 21st Century Fascism.

So some humor now and then is okay, but we got to continue working.

Because on September 18th, 1931, Guomingdang and CCP kept fighting each other and bashing at each other, unaware that the Japanese imperialist jauggernaut waited just beyond the ancient fortress walls at Shanhaiguan. What happened at dawn wasn't pleasant at all.

I don't have anything against humor but we have to work togther in the meantime. After my "research" on different forums and news sites and such, I realized, with a sudden shudder of the heart, at the sheer amount of work that we have to do to ensure the protection of our future.

I have been up all day studying for a couple of exams for next week in the meantime, so I am going now, take a nightcap, blow out my lamp and retire for a bit till the cock crows. Then I will see everyone again tomorrow. So have a safe night everyone.
 
You'd be surprised how easy it is to become active in supporting the 2nd. If you want to help, there are numerous organizations out there that will gladly accept your time and energy for furthering the cause. Maybe that'd be a good direction to shift your research and reading. "Which of these organizations gets it, and how can I help?"
 
Rachen's point is nevertheless real and valid.

Gun owners need to become active in supporting the ongoing struggle to retain their ability to keep and bear arms. The most basic way to do that is to become a member of the NRA so that its numbers grow.

Although the NRA is the largest and most effective national gun rights organization in the U.S., it has only about 4 million members. And yet there are an estimated 80 million gun owners in this country. So 5% of the gun owners are supporting the other 95%.

Although every single one of those 95% who aren't NRA members probably has truly great reasons for not joining, they don't change the arithmetic: 5% of gun owners are carrying the burden for the other 95%
 
I just went onto Newsday dot com, and got pretty scared that the candidates don't even have gun rights as part of their agenda.

More power to you for trying to teach pigs to sing (it frustrates you and annoys the pig), but it's even harder to teach pigs you've never met...who have not even heard music...to sing via the internet.

I am personally not going to fight the fight through the website of a local newspaper outside my locality. From what I know of New York, gun rights are not part of the agenda in many NY media. The fight is hard enough here in fly-over country. Good luck.

The Internet is a great place to share information and ideas. THR is a touchpoint for me to get updated on the pulse of RKBA. It's certainly not the only place many of us push the Bill of Rights and RKBA. I think most here would agree that we do our best work at a local level and in person. Taking a non-shooter out shooting is worth at least 1K posts on ANY website.
 
Woo hoo post 136!

Sorry, but come on. There are probably 300 or so new threads started daily in the 20 or so subforums here at THR. Just skip over the ones you don't want to read and if you do click one that isn't what you expected just hit the back button. You've lost a couple seconds. There are plenty of good threads and plenty of not so good threads. It will always be so.
 
FWIW, the MSM attributes the lack of discussion on gun control to Al Gore's loss in 2000. Apparently his anti-gun stance turned a lot of voters off.
 
First, we have to eliminate the discrimination and horseplay between gun owners. Like the .45 crowd versus the 9mm crowd. Or benchrest shooters versus combat shooters, or centerfire shooters versus blackpowder........etc............That stuff is only going to hurt us and let the antis come in and try to bite us. Lets stop it now.

No, these things are usually for fun and spark interest and informative debate in our sport/hobby. I am a .40 S&W man, but when it comes down past the debate, I, like all shooters, support ALL pistol shooters and their choices.
 
No, these things are usually for fun and spark interest and informative debate in our sport/hobby.

It's all fun and games until it causes our community to be divided and irreparably segregated. Then we wonder why it is so hard for us gunnies to get along.
 
It's all fun and games until it causes our community to be divided and irreparably segregated.

Sorry, I just don't see this happen. Real arguments and divisions come from discussions of religion and/or politics. In over 30 years of discussion, debate, and argument I have never heard of ANYONE irreparably segregated from another over any any guns discussion - UNLESS it is over the right to keep and bear arms.

I am on your side; I just don't see any danger here.
 
I'm confused. How is this post helping the unification process that you say is so desperately needed? I see guys who agree........."but." I think you raised a point, but you really didn't unify anything.

So what?! They guy had 1000 posts. Good for him! Let him enjoy his moment--he did nothing wrong.
 
FWIW, the MSM attributes

you lost me there...

and to the OP:

aren't you the guy that, thru philosophy and martial arts, has the human body and mind figured out? If so, get off the computer and go champion the 2A and RBKA cause in the real world. I hear what you're saying, but the sky in the interweb always seems to be falling, and no one can hold it up with a mouse.

celebrating 1000 posts is not a hell-worthy tresspass.
 
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Now that I think of it, I founded Louisiana Carry, I have a 2000+ page about American history/liberty, I am a volunteer range safety officer (not to mention being a foster parent and business owner), and I still found time to start a thread (about being number one) on my home State's gun board when I became the top poster.

Kinda throws a wrench into the "all we care about is posts" bit, it would seem.

All I am saying is that if we ever get so serious that we can't enjoy life, haven't the anti's already won?
 
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