Well folks, it is the Ides of march, the day Julius Caesar was stabbed by his buddy Brutus. Or so we are told by ancient historians.
Today I feel like Julius Caesar must have felt in the moments before he expired. I have been a supporter of Gov Pataki since he sent Mario the emperor into retirement. Pataki was looked upon as the savior of the state, and he has done good until now.
Last december Pataki vetoed the firearms safety bill that would have brought Eddie the Eagle into NY classrooms. Today he is proposing the whole list of current knee jerk liberal anti gun measures even including an "Assault Gun Ban". Pataki is so pu$$y whipped by the soccer moms that he is doing a Caesar to his biggest supporters in the state, legal gun owning NRA members.
I am at a loss, I feel empty. I am outnumbered by the Carolyn McCarthys who are pressuring Pataki into bowing to their altar of irrationality. I feel something coming here in NY, something bad. I can sense it in the air, see it in the people.
I am being disenfranchised from the country that I defended. I am being made a criminal in the eyes of the very people I served and gave seven years of my life to so many years ago.
I own an Assault gun, an AR 15. It is a symbolic measure on my part for I am a shotgunner and don't have a need for an AR 15. I admit that it has as of this date never been fired, in fact I only own 1 10 round magazine for it. It sits in the back of my gun safe behind the shotguns and probably needs an oiling. I know I should take it out and sight it in, but Sporting Clays has always taken up available range time. No more, I will get in this fight, and that AR is staying in my safe and will be sighted in. Damn the traitorous Republicans to hell.
This week the NYSRPA will demonstrate outside K mart in southhampton. I will be there, any other New Yorkers please join me.
Geoff Ross
[This message has been edited by K80Geoff (edited March 15, 2000).]
Today I feel like Julius Caesar must have felt in the moments before he expired. I have been a supporter of Gov Pataki since he sent Mario the emperor into retirement. Pataki was looked upon as the savior of the state, and he has done good until now.
Last december Pataki vetoed the firearms safety bill that would have brought Eddie the Eagle into NY classrooms. Today he is proposing the whole list of current knee jerk liberal anti gun measures even including an "Assault Gun Ban". Pataki is so pu$$y whipped by the soccer moms that he is doing a Caesar to his biggest supporters in the state, legal gun owning NRA members.
I am at a loss, I feel empty. I am outnumbered by the Carolyn McCarthys who are pressuring Pataki into bowing to their altar of irrationality. I feel something coming here in NY, something bad. I can sense it in the air, see it in the people.
I am being disenfranchised from the country that I defended. I am being made a criminal in the eyes of the very people I served and gave seven years of my life to so many years ago.
I own an Assault gun, an AR 15. It is a symbolic measure on my part for I am a shotgunner and don't have a need for an AR 15. I admit that it has as of this date never been fired, in fact I only own 1 10 round magazine for it. It sits in the back of my gun safe behind the shotguns and probably needs an oiling. I know I should take it out and sight it in, but Sporting Clays has always taken up available range time. No more, I will get in this fight, and that AR is staying in my safe and will be sighted in. Damn the traitorous Republicans to hell.
This week the NYSRPA will demonstrate outside K mart in southhampton. I will be there, any other New Yorkers please join me.
Geoff Ross
[This message has been edited by K80Geoff (edited March 15, 2000).]