Al Thompson
Staff Alumnus
Well, after 25 (+) years of NRA membership, military service, lots of firearms experiance, I have finally ID'ed our true enemy. It's the media. I had a carthritic experiance last might over at a neighbors place. My conclusion is that the average guy in the street is a classic victem of brainwashing. The guys on Smokebomb Hill could not have done better.
The long and short of it is that I keep a pretty low profile about gun ownwership here in my middle class neighborhood. We had an impromtu dinner gathering with a bunch of my neighbors when gun control came up as a subject. These are decent folks, middle class, late 20's to mid 30's. The consensous seemed to be that more gun control is better. They were completely unaware that guns were available via mail until 1968 and had no clue that most federal firearms violations go unpunished. The ignorance was stunning. One fellow gave me a lecture on cop killer bullets coated with teflon and how bad the NRA was for opposing them. He also owns a Remington 742 and got agitated when I told him he had an assult rifle.
I think we are rapidly becoming a marginalized sub-culture. The parroting of news media crap was enough to turn your stomach. Hopefully by remaining cool and calm, I did't make any new enemies and may have got some to do a little critical thinking.
I fear that the end is near and that the combination of turncoat politicians and a hostile news media may be our undoing. Not sure where this culture clash is going to lead, but it could get messy.
I feel like a frog in a pot full of water that is beginning to bubble.
Giz
The long and short of it is that I keep a pretty low profile about gun ownwership here in my middle class neighborhood. We had an impromtu dinner gathering with a bunch of my neighbors when gun control came up as a subject. These are decent folks, middle class, late 20's to mid 30's. The consensous seemed to be that more gun control is better. They were completely unaware that guns were available via mail until 1968 and had no clue that most federal firearms violations go unpunished. The ignorance was stunning. One fellow gave me a lecture on cop killer bullets coated with teflon and how bad the NRA was for opposing them. He also owns a Remington 742 and got agitated when I told him he had an assult rifle.
I think we are rapidly becoming a marginalized sub-culture. The parroting of news media crap was enough to turn your stomach. Hopefully by remaining cool and calm, I did't make any new enemies and may have got some to do a little critical thinking.
I fear that the end is near and that the combination of turncoat politicians and a hostile news media may be our undoing. Not sure where this culture clash is going to lead, but it could get messy.
I feel like a frog in a pot full of water that is beginning to bubble.
Giz