Rigby,
You make several good points in your post. Then you ask THE leading
question:
“But, what I am a loss at, is how to fight back. Besides voting, how else do
you help refute these myths? How do you make yourself heard?... How do
you spit out the sock and speak up?”
I’m doing what I can to “spit out the sock”. I’m a life member of NRA and
LEAA and an annual member of... of... (Jeez, I don’t even know how
many!) close to a dozen other organizations.
Most of my memberships are pro-gun - for obvious reasons.
A couple memberships are in notoriously anti-gun organizations where I
fight from within, argue and cause friction (if you can believe that
) and
write to legislators saying that the organization does NOT speak for ALL its
members.
(I’ll bet AARP honchos hate my guts! I always send them a “courtesy
copy” when I write legislators explaining why AARP is full of crappola!)
From time to time I write my U.S. Senators and Representative, my state
Senators and Representative, other legislators and government officials,
newspaper and magazine editors, individuals, etc.
I write the American Legion and the VFW from time to time to remind
them that the importance of flag they hold so dear is as a reminder of the
value of the Constitution - including the Bill of Rights and specifically the
Second Amendment. By God, I let them hear from me rather strongly
when I feel the Constitution is being ignored! Trust me on THAT one!!!
Any article I read, I try to comment on if they address our rights or our
RKBA. If they write pro-gun, I support ‘em. If they write anti-gun, I
tactfully explain why their head is fixed in their transverse colon. I’ve
even awarded some anti-gun folks a free annual membership in the Glass
Navel Society! (They must have a glass navel - that’s the only way they
could see daylight!
)
The biggest effort, however is what we’re discussing on other threads - the
vote. I’ll leave that to the other threads....
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Covert Mission,
You ask the question that truly frightens me, “Will the truth win out?”
I truly don’t know. But if we lose, I simply must be able to look at myself
in the mirror and say, “They may have beaten me, but I put up a hell of a
fight! And it ain’t over YET!”
I no longer can roll over and “play dead”. I believed our government
officials for so many, many years. After that, I went along with them
because I figured that it must be I who was wrong. After all, they were
“on-scene” and I was overseas. When I came home to the U.S. and saw
how our government nearly destroyed our Constitution and Bill of Rights, I
got angry. Real angry! And I will no longer abide by the “to get along -
go along” philosophy.
The fight is on, buddy! And I’m in it!
Every person, every organization, every group, every legislator at any
level who threatens to infringe the Second Amendment is my sworn
opponent.
So long as I am able to type, I will fight these freedom-killing monsters
until I win or die. “And that’s a fact, Jack!”
Join us who fight for our Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Not just for ourselves but for our children and children’s children.
Win back for them what our Founding Fathers created for us; what so
many of our countrymen fought and died for; what WE are obligated
morally to win back.
For God and our Constitution!
Stick it to ‘em!
RKBA!