03-02-2013, 12:53 PM
Only from my cold dead hands can anyone steal my arms.
I grew up not shooting a .22 rifle in "camps", at age 12 I was given the right to WITH PERMISSION and KNOWLEDGE of my family use a bolt action Marlin .22 rifle. The next morning I had a new job. I was up and out the door at 04:30 with my rifle to kill the groundhog that was tearing the half acre (a half football field) garden up. I did but it was a little different than I was led to expect from TV shows.
Within a few seasons I was granted the use of various long arms for hunting and eliminating varmints like the groundhog above. Firearm safety was not the purview of any government, it was taught by the family. It was reinforced by reality using firearms as ONLY ANOTHER TOOL and seeing what firearms do.
(I never touched a pistol until the USMC handed me a 1911 Colt .45 to qualify with. Pistols are useless on the home place - except to kill a person and in that case the 12 gauge pump works better than a pistol --- hopefully the sound of racking the pump convinces the intruder to get gone).
On the home place in the sticks of my youth, the fastest way to lose the permission was to violate safety rules.
In this age of repression by Government, no matter the law I will NEVER give up the rights I have now.
Nor will I ever surrender arms to anyone.
I have never had a firearm accidentally discharge, I have never accidentally shot anything or anyone I did not fully intend to shoot before the well maintained weapon was in my hand(s).
The damned USG once paid me to carry a junk weapon paying damn little for the job. It liked to blow or not fire at all and jam so nicely. Thanks Curt Le May you SOB.
Now the agenda has changed and some endorse the US Government's coming 2nd Amendment Abridgment.
Only the criminals and US Government criminals will be armed if this BS keeps up. I guess except some like me that will refuse to obey a law to disarm me and mine. I'm no criminal but can be made into one for freedom sake.
Totalitarian Regimes must first disarm their own people.
THE ONLY EXCUSE FOR VIOLENCE IN ANY FORM WITH OR WITHOUT WEAPONRY IS TO PROTECT OR DEFEND ONE'S SELF OR OTHERS. OK and protect property of the same people.
BUT I DEMAND IN THESE TIMES TO RETAIN THE MEANS TO RESIST AND THEREBY THE POSSIBILITY TO RESIST OPPRESSION BY ANYONE.
Ask yourself this question. Would Dan'l Boone have registered his bullet mold and powder horn? Would he have given them up to the Redcoats? To the Continental Army?
This is 200 years later? The danger today is a real as Dan'l's day, just not as furry or red-skinned. Nor as obvious as in Dan'l's day. The boiling frog thing.
On this point my decision was actually made long ago, in 1980 when I woke to PIGS violating my home without a warrant. This was before RReagan "no knock laws".
Nothing came of it all except I was changed. Wrong address wrong name their ass bigtime. It was an intimidation psyop I know now.
Before that illegal home invasion I was around no weapons and like my Father after military service we were allergic to hunting and shooting for sport. Neither one of us enjoys/enjoyed hunting to this day.
I would bet that Ruby Ridge and Waco and 9-11 were factors in my Fathers like change about the 2nd Amendment Rights. It was that time frame he changed too and bought an M1 Carbine and a 9 mm.
As I was awakened in 1980.
With a month I joined the NRA. A leftist member of the NRA. Imagine that.:jawdrop:
Jim
My aircraft is grounded for icing conditions.
I grew up not shooting a .22 rifle in "camps", at age 12 I was given the right to WITH PERMISSION and KNOWLEDGE of my family use a bolt action Marlin .22 rifle. The next morning I had a new job. I was up and out the door at 04:30 with my rifle to kill the groundhog that was tearing the half acre (a half football field) garden up. I did but it was a little different than I was led to expect from TV shows.
Within a few seasons I was granted the use of various long arms for hunting and eliminating varmints like the groundhog above. Firearm safety was not the purview of any government, it was taught by the family. It was reinforced by reality using firearms as ONLY ANOTHER TOOL and seeing what firearms do.
(I never touched a pistol until the USMC handed me a 1911 Colt .45 to qualify with. Pistols are useless on the home place - except to kill a person and in that case the 12 gauge pump works better than a pistol --- hopefully the sound of racking the pump convinces the intruder to get gone).
On the home place in the sticks of my youth, the fastest way to lose the permission was to violate safety rules.
In this age of repression by Government, no matter the law I will NEVER give up the rights I have now.
Nor will I ever surrender arms to anyone.
I have never had a firearm accidentally discharge, I have never accidentally shot anything or anyone I did not fully intend to shoot before the well maintained weapon was in my hand(s).
The damned USG once paid me to carry a junk weapon paying damn little for the job. It liked to blow or not fire at all and jam so nicely. Thanks Curt Le May you SOB.
Now the agenda has changed and some endorse the US Government's coming 2nd Amendment Abridgment.
Only the criminals and US Government criminals will be armed if this BS keeps up. I guess except some like me that will refuse to obey a law to disarm me and mine. I'm no criminal but can be made into one for freedom sake.
Totalitarian Regimes must first disarm their own people.
THE ONLY EXCUSE FOR VIOLENCE IN ANY FORM WITH OR WITHOUT WEAPONRY IS TO PROTECT OR DEFEND ONE'S SELF OR OTHERS. OK and protect property of the same people.
BUT I DEMAND IN THESE TIMES TO RETAIN THE MEANS TO RESIST AND THEREBY THE POSSIBILITY TO RESIST OPPRESSION BY ANYONE.
Ask yourself this question. Would Dan'l Boone have registered his bullet mold and powder horn? Would he have given them up to the Redcoats? To the Continental Army?
This is 200 years later? The danger today is a real as Dan'l's day, just not as furry or red-skinned. Nor as obvious as in Dan'l's day. The boiling frog thing.
On this point my decision was actually made long ago, in 1980 when I woke to PIGS violating my home without a warrant. This was before RReagan "no knock laws".
Nothing came of it all except I was changed. Wrong address wrong name their ass bigtime. It was an intimidation psyop I know now.
Before that illegal home invasion I was around no weapons and like my Father after military service we were allergic to hunting and shooting for sport. Neither one of us enjoys/enjoyed hunting to this day.
I would bet that Ruby Ridge and Waco and 9-11 were factors in my Fathers like change about the 2nd Amendment Rights. It was that time frame he changed too and bought an M1 Carbine and a 9 mm.
As I was awakened in 1980.
With a month I joined the NRA. A leftist member of the NRA. Imagine that.:jawdrop:
Jim
My aircraft is grounded for icing conditions.