Yes indeed, Brigadier, the political expertise of a great many gun owners is staggering. It's at least partly a tribute to the success of the American educational system. Everyone who has come through it is an incisive thinker whose expertise often runs the gamut from A through B.
I am constantly driven nuts by this silly theme of gun owners complaining that the government is taking their rights away. The whole reason you have guns is to stop them from doing that. If you don't stop the government, no one will. If you are going to sit back and watch the government strip you of your rights, then you have no (constitutional) reason to own a gun in the first place.
Please give advance notice of the date, time, and meeting place for the armed insurrection. Must we supply our own lunch or will box lunches be provided? I want a couple of chocolate chip cookies with mine or I'm just not going. I have principles.
Basically, the 2A is a very small issue in comparison as the Patriot Act II AFFECTIVELY brings the USA to an end and you won't have any 2A rights to talk about or at least, you will until they say you don't which affectively means you don't at all. In any case, whether under a Democrat or Republican president, you will most likely kiss what little freedom you have left good by within the next 4 years.
I think you mean "effectively."
What
effectively brings the U.S.A. to an end is ZIP codes. ZIP codes are part of an insidious plot intended by the federal government to dominate the country and destroy individualism.
Until 1943 there was no coding of
any kind in U.S. addresses. You could address a letter to John Jones at "123 His Street" and simply add the city and state: "New York, New York." You could even write it all out, because there were no state abbreviations either!
Then, in 1943--in the middle of World War II--the Franklin D. Roosevelt government insinuated the first step in the long range plot to subordinate Americans. That first step was the "Postal Zone" and seemed harmless enough at the time. It was a number that had to be added between the city and state. So a letter to John Jones at his home address now had to have this: "New York 16, New York." Notice the slyness? It's tucked in between, where nobody would notice it. The
postal zone wasn't required though, but it was much appreciated by your government as a way to aid the war effort. See the connection between war and postal codes. The rascals! They were softening us up for the kill.
It began in earnest (or in Ernest, depending upon your school I think) in 1963 when a government agency introduced the ZIP code to supplant the postal zone code. It was still voluntary but, again, much appreciated. Now the ZIP code had to be placed at the
end of the last line. So a letter to John Jones would be addressed to him at his home in "New York, New York 10016." See the superiority of the ZIP code to cities and states?
Sure enough, just six years later we were embroiled in the Vietnam War. Just two years before then the voluntary ZIP code became mandatory and the states were reduced in significance to just two letters: in 1967 ZIP codes were
required for second and third class mailings.
Not content with this tyranny, in 1983 the government expanded it further with "ZIP + 4." From then on you didn't even need John Jones' city or state! You could address a letter to him with his street address at "10016-1492." And what happened just 20 years later? Right: the Iraq War.
Spread the word. This tyranny must stop. Vote for Ross Perot. Better still, vote for William Wirt--the first third party presidential candidate--whose showing in the election of 1832 made his name as famous as Ron Paul will be a few years from now.
It's said that there are 80 million gun owners in this country. Only about 4 million belong to the NRA. Simple arithmetic, if it hasn't gone the way of spelling and logic in the American educational system, shows that there are 74
million American gun owners who don't think enough of their Second Amendment rights to join the organization that stands between them and those who will destroy those rights.
So why would anyone think that they would vote to preserve those rights? But oh how they do complain and argue and point fingers at everyone else.
They gonna rebel, they gonna vote out the anti-gun people, they gonna do this, they gonna do that. But they ain't gonna vote for their right to keep and bear arms, and they ain't gonna join no NRA. They just
gonna. For sure.
Paper tigers are great fun to watch if not taken seriously. Barack Obama knows who he is dealing with and what he is doing.
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