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Thread ID: 12507 | Posts: 9 | Started: 2004-02-25
2004-02-25 00:38 | User Profile
Watch Out Gun Owners: The Republicans Are Selling Us Out Again
By Michael Gaddy é 2004
While many of us have been wondering just how old Dubya was going to handle the sunset clause in the Assault Weapons Ban, lo and behold the congressional Republicans have devised a way to rescue their boy and keep the AWB, all at the same time.
Word is out that the Republican lawmakers have contrived to include the extension of the AWB into legislation that will also ban lawsuits against gun manufacturers. By so doing, they are providing themselves a way to make the AWB permanent while being able to say they voted for a bill to protect gun manufacturers.
Be forewarned; the buzzword for the Republicans in their colossal sell-out will be "compromise." Naturally, the lapdogs down at the NRA will jump on the bandwagon and support this piece of socialist drivel, just like they have every other sell out of our Second Amendment rights in the past.
The Republican leadership will point with pride to the fact they have backed their opponents, the "democrats," into a corner and forced them to support the legislation that will stop all these lawsuits against the gun manufacturers, while in reality, Schumer, Feinstein, Boxer and the other socialist democrats will be laughing up their sleeves because they have exactly what they want: the continuation of the AWB, which they will be able to amend from time to time, adding never ending new groups of firearms to the ban. Eventually, all we will be allowed to own is a starter pistol that fires nothing but blanks, as all others will have been re-classified as some new form of assault weapon.
Never forget, an assault weapon is whatever the government says it is. First it will be semi-autos, both long and short guns. Then it will be all center-fires and then finally it will be any firearm that fires a projectile.
Of course there will be the appropriate heinous use of a firearm by some nut that will lead to each and every one of the aforementioned firearms being banned for the good of the children. Just exactly how long is it going to take for the fools in this country to realize that if the State will send your children into foreign lands to die for corporate bottom lines, they will have your children die in their schools and playgrounds to insure their dominion and control over the people?
A free country is an armed country!
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2004-02-28 22:59 | User Profile
Just a personal theory of my that many others likely have. There's little uproar about this sort of thing, because the tyrants have proven the fix is in. I think the citizen has just decided (like they have in Canada) to do what the hell they have to in order to survive. The NRA isn't getting another nickle form me, until they start walking the talk.
2004-02-29 00:45 | User Profile
I have considered the NRA irrelevant for quite some time now. The only reason I'm a member of the NRA is because the shooting range I go to requires NRA membership.
As a matter of fact, I no longer believe in donating money to any gun rights organizations. We already have a safeguard for our gun rights: the Second Amendment. That law is backed up by the guns we already own. Hell, even without the Constitution, I have the right to own firearms simply because I've granted that right to myself. I have no earthly master; I'm nobody's slave, and I'll die before I become a slave. Anyone else who doesn't already have that attitude owes it to himself to cultivate it.
If the AW Ban gets extended, then gun owners will have a duty to ignore it and break it. ZOG agents who attempt to enforce the AW Ban should be warned first, then shot if they persist.
2004-03-20 12:29 | User Profile
Well it just looks like the same old , same old with the Republican party. They do the most for those that give the most. When will we take the time to put good people up in elections. We need good representaion that takes good people to vote for. Let's find those that will work for us for a change. Just a thought.
2004-03-20 16:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler]I have no earthly master; I'm nobody's slave, and I'll die before I become a slave. Anyone else who doesn't already have that attitude owes it to himself to cultivate it.[/QUOTE]
I just thought that was worth repeating.
2004-03-20 16:38 | User Profile
Something happened on the way to the gun show,,,,, when I was in my car in line in order to pay my 3 bucks entrance fee in and to park my car I noticed one particular car parked to one side, the man inside keep looking up and down, doing something.
After I parked my car I walked the long way around and came from behind him, I stood at his seven and saw him writing down the license plate numbers as the cars drove by.
I asked why he was doing that, scared the hell out of the guy, and he told me that is was for membership to a certain magazine.
Only thing is that I also saw a clip on wallet with a badge sitting next to him ,,,,,,
Uncle Sam at work. If you are a member of a gun club or gun magazine then Uncle Sam have a ready way to find out who owns a gun,,,,, careful guys.
2004-04-28 16:04 | User Profile
The Republicrats and the Demoplicans are both worthless. If any of ya'll are still hitched to their wagons, it's time to accept reality. Support for either major party is collaboration.
2004-05-11 01:32 | User Profile
Ponce:[QUOTE]Uncle Sam at work. If you are a member of a gun club or gun magazine then Uncle Sam have a ready way to find out who owns a gun,,,,, careful guys.[/QUOTE] I have always had a suspicion that this would one day begin. Becareful is right!
2004-05-11 20:59 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler]... I no longer believe in donating money to any gun rights organizations. We already have a safeguard for our gun rights: the Second Amendment. ... I have no earthly master; I'm nobody's slave, and I'll die before I become a slave. Anyone else who doesn't already have that attitude owes it to himself to cultivate it. [/QUOTE] When I was 12 years old, my Grandad bought me a rifle; a Ruger 10/22. I was excited, but I also knew that it was significant as a rite-of-passage into adulthood. I had been taught that firearms demanded maturity and responsibility. Grandad told me that he'd be watching me, guiding me and that I had a duty to live up to the standards he would teach me. I was proud to be worthy.
He had rigorous standards for firearms handling, care and cleaning, and marksmanship. He salso igned me up with the NRA, which I believe came with a 1-year subsciption to GunsNAmmo magazine. Or was it the Rifleman? Maybe both? Whichever, the magazine got a lot of attention. It was full of information, pretty gun pictures, and it was a magazine a teenage boy could read without getting into trouble. I asked him why I needed to be a member of the NRA if I only wanted to learn to shoot guns. He answered that real citizens had to support the 2nd Amendment from people and forces that I unfortunately don't remember if he ever specified. He also believed in (among many other things) a domestic manufacturing base, the gold-standard, and the polite seperation of races. Riflery was one of many things I learned from him.
Over time I grew to develop, discard and evolve socio-political views. At different stages, some views he wouldn't have agreed with. We learn, we grow. Full circle, I return to believe as my Grandad did on all significant points. In each case where we might not agree, it's because I have access to knowledge that those of his generation would never have had. Conditions and circumstances have developed that they could not have conceived. Grandad died long before I could ask him my toughest questions. His conscience is my quiet council.
With respect to the question at hand we agree on this: the NRA is not what it purports to be. It makes highly packaged appeals to those with a conservative conscience; that it is their only representative. It is a power-sink for people taught to believe that they must have an intermediary to control their own government. The NRA is in reality another corporate entity that is a part of the problem; it perverts through distortion and by creating imbalance. Like any other ZOG entity, it sues for control by compromising leadership. It creates screens and diversions, and perpetuates infighting to maintain the clamor of chaos. Why? To maintain control for the sake of control. Like most ZOG entites, it is necessary only because it makes itself so. Which really just means that the NRA is unnecessary.
I'm with Angler. We are the only necessary defenders of the Constitution. The NRA is the enemy of WN patriots; they're bought and sold. Doubt it? Look at who's on their lunch ticket. The NRA must go away. My resources will go to the WN cause, to WN businesses to create WN employment, to securing our future.
And into expensive match-grade rifle ammo.