Texas park shootout

[beaucoup ammo]

I Tend To Agree With PP As Well

Having gutted, eliminated jobs and placed many things out of reach of the Middle Class, November, IMO, will reflect this country's displeasure with the Corporate ties so blatantly flaunted by this Administration.

However, the Democrats offer little in way of relief, as both parties are basically the same...play identical games. Only the slogans are different.

When the last resort... mass protest.. rolls around, resistance from tax paying Americans fed up with being on the working end of a screw driver For Playing By The Rules is the last thing Corporate America wants.

They'd prefer to roll over us without any "speed bumps."

 

[TexasRifleman]

They'd prefer to roll over us without any "speed bumps."

And they were right, most Americans already have.

 

[Maxwell]

I would think that if you fear a full ban on the leadup to tyranny, the idea of any restriction would be repulsive.

If the limit is age, they will raise it.
If the limit is not being a felon, its simple enough to make more felonys out of misdemeanors.
If its "mental illness", you can write a law vague enough to do that too. After all, someone must be crazy or paranoid to want a gun in such a "peaceful" society.

Once you put the government in that position of control, its not a far step from limited freedom to total lockdown.

Back to my analogy with freedom of speech. Why go so far just to prove the constitution wrong when you can use another law to punish evil-doers while protecting the sanctity of our rights?

 

[beaucoup ammo]

TexasSIGman / Maxwell

Are you saying most Americans have already been "rolled over?" My gut says no..then I view the apathy at election time (mere fractions of eligible voters showing up..allowing anti's to be placed in office), the preoccupation with just "getting by" deverting attention from corporate malfeasance, Katrina opening our eyes to the enormous number of people who expect tax payers to do everything...I mean everything..for them, a Military Industrial Complex that Ike warned us about thriving over 50 years after he gave us a heads up.

Maybe I just have more time now to think things over... so many here (THR) are light years ahead of me in this regard. The thought of moving to Utah, Montana, etc. (away from the BS) is very appealing. I could swing it if I liquidated everything. Every day spent in "The City" (any city) just brings more cars with amplified bass, more police choppers over head looking for a scum bag that's knocked over a bank and is running through the neighborhood searching for an open garage door or unlocked window. More bad news on the tube and in the paper, more 18 year old amputees coming home from Iraq (we should have gone after the f****** where they were..Afghanistan.)

This rant will get me knocked off so I'll quit. But, seriously, having gone from Republican to Democrat to Republican to Independent and not finding anything but agendas working against Middle Class Americans..it's freaking depressing! And EVERY time I hang up from a conversation with my son in Bahrain..I hear an audible "click" or "frying" sound. Paranoia? Maybe, but why? No one here but us hard working, tax paying, freedom loving Americans.

I'm 140 miles from the Rio Grande. I travel and visit friends. There have been times when, in the early evening, driving through Brooks or Jim Hogg county I've seen more people running through the brush than white tails. Local LEO'S in the valley actually fear for their lives.

Whatcha gonna do? I'll head for the range and feel better when I get back. Very therapeutic!

Take Care

 

[PlayboyPenguin]

Maybe I was a little hasty Penguin. After reading some of your posts...carefully...it seems that I have been. Apologies.

No need to apologize. I never mind someone challenging what I think or say. Challenges always either strengthen your opinion or cause you to rethink your stance. Neither is a bad thing.

leftist corporate bigwigs

Is that something from a Dr. Suess book? I am not sure I have ever seen one of those in real life.

 

[1911Tuner]

re:

Well...The gun control issue is just a hot button with me. I tend to get prickly when it comes up.

Bigwigs...Go search George Soros. The epitome of The Fat Cat in the Hat. If he gets his foot in the door, he soon owns the house and tosses the rightful owner out...and feels that it's his entitlement.

 

[Maxwell]

Are you saying most Americans have already been "rolled over?"

I only suggest that the stuff you need to roll them over has been developed and installed with our blessings. Now your just waiting for someone to drop the hammer.
So long as you have a meathod and authority in place for gun control, your a memo away from losing everything.

What worries me is that even if we could find a way to remove these systems, people would resist it. Fearing the danger of living without a benevolent government to make decisions for them...Thats not too far removed from stalinism.

You can punish criminals without firearms laws. You can have a violent offenders gun rights (or any other right for that matter) selectively stripped by the judge on his conviction, and if an officer catches him armed you can throw the book at this felon.
You can do it properly instead of tossing responsobility for the constitution to some low level buearucrat with a stamp.