gun sane

If people start getting splinters, how long until this thing's banned?   http://www.ebay.com/itm/Assault-Weapon-A-MUST-HAVE-this-is-not-an-AR15-/261151027123?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ccdd06fb3&afsrc=1

Here's one protest all of us can take part in....and have fun.   Head to your favorite LGS or shooting range on Jan. 19 as part of a coast to coast thumb in the eye to Prez Zero.   http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/gun-appreciation-day-before-inauguration-85844.html

Dean Garrison in his blog tells it pretty much like it is as far as citizen responsibility goes to preserve the republic.  However, the big question is, "Are we too far down the road to the American dream to stop the American nightmare?"

"There would be a revolution in this country!" he says, if the government started to gather guns.   http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/01/05/buchanan_there_would_be_a_revolution_if_government_confiscated_weapons.html

Isn't anybody asking this bozo who introduced the bill why he wants it passed?  Not for nuthin', but I'd rather see some term limits placed on Congress instead.

If you can't lick 'em, join 'em.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dg_AcBeHgo

Here's some expert testimony I believe has the most weight:  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/04/ex-burglars-say-newspapers-gun-map-wouldve-made-job-easier-safer/

As long as we allow these leftists to keep personal defense against bad guys as the central issue,  the public won't see the greater danger of what the Second Amendment is all about.  Why did everyone go out and empty the shelves of gun stores after this last election?  Is it because they thought they were in imminent danger of being robbed or their home invaded?  No.  The simple reason is that people who are concerned about the future of the country know that the political process has been hijacked by totalitarian forces bent on stealing the ownership of our republic from the people to whom it belongs.  Let's stop this endless bog of perpetual discussion about a person's right to defend himself.  Even most people who don't own firearms recognize that necessity.  The freedom of our whole nation is at peril here and it is this danger that should concern gun owners the most, just as it did our founding fathers in their day.

  Yes, but the capitol is in Nashville, CST.  Hey, it's worth the trip!

I'm sure it will be picked up on other media as well.  For a heads up, they're asking gun owners to meet at their home state's capitol building on Friday, Feb. 8  from 10 a.m. to noon EST to show support for the 2A.   They hope for a million to show.   For Tennessee that would mean the event is from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. 

    The U.S. Senate voted "in a bipartisan way" to increase taxes and defer spending cuts early this morning.  The media reports it as a great victory for the president and for America.  Perhaps when the government checks stop coming from a dried up treasury more people will wake up and throw support our way.

Fair enough.  I'll take it in the chops if it means we get a little fire in the belly.  :woohoo:

https://www.facebook.com/events/406312512782872/

What say we lock this thread and start a new one with the Facebook announcement?  All in favor?

It appears that good things are beginning to happen.    https://www.facebook.com/events/406312512782872/

I discovered America in Texas!  Howdy from a transplanted Texhoman.

Greetings from Maryville, Kalel.

I didn't mean for this to get contentious.  I believe we're all freedom-loving patriots here who are "under the gun" right now with the threat of losing our last viable weapon that the Constitution affords to us.  But somehow this conversation went from a proposition that we all stand together and get our picture taken, to a dangerous marching mob of F-troop recruits.   Perhaps this long national nightmare will end with a peaceful resolution.  I pray to God it will.  But let's take a little time to reflect upon the threats we face and how we may persevere.   How will history judge this generation is a good question to start with. Since we may have to share a foxhole someday, I'll try to keep my criticism pointed in a safe direction.  :usa:

  That's plausible.  But can you imagine the number of friendly fire casualties we'll suffer if a real revolution starts?  And let's forget our argument that if only one citizen with a permit was at the scene of a mass shooting, he could take the wacko out.

Never mind, guys, it's crazy to bring a gun to a talk fight.    "Oh, damn!  Torpedoes!  Full speed backwards."   "Give me liberty or give me food stamps."   "I have not yet begun to negotiate."    With all due respect, we're whipped before we start.

Again, Obama says he want to "fundamentally change" the concept of gun ownership in America.  He made a similar declaration a few days before the 2008 election about changing America as a whole.  Did he make his promise good, or should I say his threat?  How much of our socioeconomic system is still recognizable?  The politicians who say that they're on our side have fought valiantly to ensure that Obama doesn't get the whole pie.  Yet, they believe they've done the job we elected them to do when he takes only a big slice at a time.  As they walk away from the table with shredded underwear, the GOP shrugs and says, "Elections have consequences."  So does robbery.   The NRA was fighting for us when we had our first assault weapons ban.  Thank God there was a sunset provision to that one; there won't be this time.

Since I certainly don't mean to defame or diminish the honor of those who rest at Arlington, my apologies to you.  My relatives are buried elsewhere but did their solemn duty as well.  I'm not calling for a Lexington-Concord showdown here, but I'm only saying what a lot of gun owners are thinking.  We have representatives in Washington that give us lip service and then flip service.  We have the most asinine discussions about debt ceilings, fiscal cliffs and economic strategies when we know not a blessed thing they decide will work.  You simply can't win against totalitarian statists by giving them a home field advantage.  I wonder how long we can talk until every man, woman and child in the country is begging for bread.  Those who want to rule, not govern, this country know that there's millions of gun owners out here.  I'm only saying we should give them the opportunity to see them on our terms, albeit peacefully.

I guess the Sons of Liberty we're wrong to throw the tea into Boston Harbor.   Those Texians should have abandoned the Alamo before Santa Ana got there.  While we're waiting for the NRA's marching orders, why don't we go out to Arlington National Cemetery and ask for a show of hands?

Not for nuthin', but the John Q. Sheeple crowd will hide under their beds when Obamacare or another assault on our freedoms comes out of D.C.  They aren't the ones we're trying to impress.  The gun grabbers are now strutting their stuff and practically daring anybody to oppose what they want to do.  Write all the letters and emails to Congress you want until you're hand withers and falls off.  We've done that for the last four years and what did it get us?    So what if somebody does fire a weapon?  They're going to do that anyway at the next mall or school shooting.  At least someone will be close by to take them out.  I mean, what are we doing here?  Obama says he want to "fundamentally change" the concept of gun ownership in America.  The president is not given kingly powers by the Constitution.  The founding fathers came up with the idea of the 2A for just this purpose.  If we're too antsy about what somebody will do if we stand up and be counted, there's nothing to stop them from what they want to do.

I don't do Twitter or Facebook, but I've seen what happens when the word goes around to meet for a flash mob someplace.  Why don't gun owners pick a certain day and time when everyone in America with a rifle, shotgun or handgun meets in their own town square for a display of weaponry. Big city carriers could show up at city hall. Have the local news cover the event with pictures of everyone standing at port arms with a big sign which says, "Come And Take Them." The lib politicians and national media would have a brown-out in their shorts!  :dropjaw: :eek: :panic: :stare: