GrinningGun
06-13-2002, 06:45 AM
I'm pro gun obviously like most other people on here. I sign petitions and boycott all the company's on that are anti-gun and all their sub-company's I can find and link to them. So I'm sitting here thinking to myself about the NRA and all the things people do to protect what rights we still have. Suddenly it hits me BAM! Why are we so reactive? It seems like we just sit back and defend rather than attack. We're reactive when we should be pro-active IMHO. I mean if the brady bunch ;) are gonna sit around taking shots at our rights we should shoot back!(figuratively speaking.) Why aren't we pushing for the un-banning of weapons? At the least all of their BS gun laws are unconstitutional. They say that when the 2nd ammendment was written all anyone had was muskets. So thats was top of the line back then for personnal weaponry. I mean if our military and other foreign military's are packing fully auto high capacity assault rifles, then I should be able to own one. I mean isn't an assault rifle today the equivilent of a musket back then? I shouldn't have to pay for fees or get special liscensing. I mean sure right now without much effort I can have an assault rifle. But what about our kids? Or grandkids? Strategically you advance or withdraw but you never hold ground, and I believe that applies to the legal battlefield as well as the real one. I'm not saying we should be able to own rocket launchers or giant tripod mounted belt fed machine guns. But we at least should be protected by the constitution enough to be able to adequately defend myself, my family, and my country from all foes foreign and domestic. It doesn't matter that I have no use for it right now. But what if? We have the right to own them just in case, don't we? I mean we have to have car insurance (at least around here.) ad all thats for is incase something happens with or to that car. We have home owners insurance in case something happens to our homes. We even have life insurance in case we die. But what about freedom insurance? Who insures my freedom? Who insures my civil liberties? I do! I believe I should have the ability to insure my freedom and civil liberties by all means possible. What if the government collapsed? or decided to become something else? We watch on TV as unarmed people who live under oppressive governments stand in the streets and throw rocks at tanks. Just think about that here they are being run over and pushed around because all they have to fight with are rocks. I just think we need to push back!