I don't use the social media...they are full of false bravado and chest thumping...or so I've been told.
Which is why I said sounds like. Congratulations you are so advanced you don't use social media. Why are you on THR, then? Internet message boards and forums ARE part of social media. But you're too cool to use the popular social media. You hipster of hipsters.
You live in Michigan, sir, where entire communities are subject to Sharia law, and where a once-proud city [one of the largest in the country] is bankrupt; and with large portions of it in abject ruins. That may be your real world but it isn't mine...thank God.
Did you just fart, because you are talking out of your arse. Yes, Michigan is home to a lot of Muslims in close community, mostly Jordanian and Bosnian. However, NO community in Michigan is subject to Sharia law. You sure you're not on Facebook? Seems I have to debunk that drivel on a weekly basis for the grossly uninformed. As for Detroit, well, we do have the Democrats who held power there for so long. As well as extreme corporate greed for one of the biggest industries in the world. But the fault of Detroits failure does not fall on those shoulders alone. It falls on everyone who felt Made in the USA wasn't good enough anymore. But that's another topic that has got nothing to do with guns. Detroit is not alone in its failed economy, crime and whatever else you may have been alluding to.
You've done a remarkable job for a clutch of hens. Fortunately, the roosters here in Tennessee still have their spurs and know how to use them.
Actually, considering where we were in the Granholm years, to where we are now, we have done a remarkable job. Employment is up, conservatives are in power in Lansing, bad laws are being reformed or repealed and decent laws are taking their place. So for this clutch of hens, we've gone a long way in restoring freedom. But you go ahead and sharpening those spurs you got, because that sound tough and scary. Tennessee online militias everywhere are impressed.
"By defying outright these tyrannical government abuses, we invite something far worse than temporary disarmament."
You're a veteran [thank you for your service]...do you use the VA for your medical care?
Hell no. I could, but I have a great job with excellent insurance. I haven't set foot in a VA clinic in a few years, just long enough to be treated like crap, wait forever and find out I'm eligible for minimal coverage that BC/BS already provides.
"I like to call it prison, and it's a place I'd rather not go."
Incarceration comes in many forms...just ask the U.S Judicial Dept.
And this means what? Some veiled obscure conspiratorial enslavement exists under the DoJ? Well, that covers you down there in TN, too. But be that as it may, I like my gun rights, and want to keep them as long as I can. I like my job, my house and my family, too. Doing something stupid like breaking the law in some lazy form of protest against a law I don't like is going to get those things taken from me. And no jury on the planet is sentimental enough to acquit on the "Because it's tyranny" defense.
"It's a pretty far stretch to link obeying federal law to accepting anything our overlords can impose."
You must have been asleep for the last six years.
You act as though the last six years have been completely apocalyptic. I'm not denying there has been massive amounts of government overreach, bad laws, etc. ad nauseum. But what in the three hells does that have to do with whether or not you disarm in a gun free zone?! Those laws have been in place for DECADES and are nothing new.
I'll leave you with this quote which Douglas MacArthur wrongly attributed to Lincoln:
"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Akin to "The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
I get it. Don't see how it's really relevant to the topic of whether or not to abide by the law. Oh wait, yes I do. If you ignore the law, you are being silent in your protest. You are not actively, vocally working to over ride or repeal the law. You are simply ignoring it, as a coward would. A selfish act that helps no one and does nothing. Except maybe get you thrown in jail.
Also, random quasi-relevant quotations (like my sig line) is also something widely prevalent on most forms of social media. But you don't use that.
because a serious discussion where we won't get banned is cool............
