dan_sayers wrote:Forgive me if I respectfully disagree. We have a long way to go to return to the natural state our forefathers wanted to provide for us.
There is absolutely nothing to forgive my friend.
Taxes are wasted, and there have been massive and unforgivable intrusions on our Inalienable Rights. The truth is that Gun Controllers have been whipping us in the public opinion war for years. It has only been lately that the American Public has finally seen that no amount of gun control will satisfy their lust to kill the 2nd. However, the do it for the Children, and do it for a safer society argument seem to still have legs. Even though we can prove this stuff to be BS, but who will report it? The Antis have done their best to make the words NRA and gun owner dirty words.
The truth is that even our most Right Wing news organization is at least somewhat anti-gun, and it seems that we have no way to get to the American people to tell them our side. The facts are totally on our side, but no one will present them to the American People. The best we can get is a BS Fair and balanced debate! And that is total BS. Would they like to have a fair and balanced debate on the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth amendments? How about the fourteenth? No! Somehow those ARE inalienable Rights, and the 2nd, is, well -- just adoration.
The question really is what can we do, and what shall we do about it? I think the Assault weapons ban give back was a step in the right direction, but getting more than that, even with a friendly Congress and President, seems to be not in the cards. Murder is at a 40 year low and violent crime is at a 30 year low yet Mayor Bloomberg’s anti-gun story is the one that has legs. Two of the best research organizations, filled with anti-gun researchers, have studied gun control every way they can and find no proof that is has a positive effect on violent outcomes, but yet we are still fighting more gun control proposals.
So what do we do?
We must keep pressure political pressure on our elected officials until we can get people elected who think like us. We have a pretty good crop of up and comers but until then, our choice is between Anti-gun DeWine, and the even more Anti-gun Brown. Some choice huh?