Franklin W. Dixon
New member
Ran across this on another forum. Interesting idea:
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http://www.huntamerica.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000971.html
"A while back I proposed that we get all the gun owners and gun manufacturers to simply stick together and quit obeying gun control, licensing, and registration laws. The point is, we already have legal protection for that right in the 2nd Amendment, so this is not a matter for Congress to settle, not for the President, not for the Supreme Court--as citizens, it is our business. We simply need to remind the government of that. This won't cost us anything but time...not even legal fees or bail, provided we all hang together.
That means we all carry openly, every day, while going to the grocery store,
renting movies, taking the kiddies to school, whether it's legal in your state or not, whether you even want to carry or not. Many of us wear our pistols everyday anyway, and those who don't--well, it seems like a small price to pay to help reaffirm our Constitutional right to bear arms. If we can get but 10% of the 80 million gun owners to participate, that averages out to 160,000 per state!!
We kick it off by getting at least 500 men and women together in as many towns as possible and simply gather in a big, open town square, park, etc., wearing our sidearms openly, and--heck, making ourselves as harmless-looking as possible...giving out free milk and cookies (hehe) to passersby. Read Dr. Seuss stories to kids with our big bad pistols on our belts. Be as innocent looking and unthreatening as possible. They gonna arrest 500, or 1,000, or 2,000 of us at one time? Heck no.
This is not meant to be a one time event...this would be a statement that as free citizens protected by the Bill of Rights, we are invoking the 2nd Amendment and announcing that, from here on, we will abide by the Bill of Rights alone in regards to our personal weapons.
So, there you have it. No verbal threats, no intentional intimidation or posturing, nothing at all like that. The government will never restore our 2nd Amendment protections no matter who we vote for, how often we vote, or how often the Supreme Court rules on it (which ain't often, folks).
If we all force the issue together by simply DOING what we have a right to DO, and
thereby tell the government that their unconstitutional laws have no force, there will be no war, probably very little or no violence at all if done right, peaceably, but confidently.
But then I guess it's easier to write checks, join the NRA, write letters, vote for pathetic windbags, bitch about our favorite overweight sexually-confused feminazi talk show hostess, complain about bad Public Relations moves, write-off the militias, cower before the government, and whine about the antis to each other than it is to stand up and act like Americans, peaceably, but confidently.
If you want something done right, do it yourself. We need no permission. We just need the will to get it done...peaceably, but confidently.
And don't give me the voting routine, cause natural rights are not bestowed by popular vote, and therefore can't be rescinded or restored by popular vote. The time has come to act. If we cannot, after all that has happened, after all that continues to happen, and all that we allow, well, that means as a group, us gunowners are either afraid, apathetic, stupid, or unorganized.
Solving the last one is easy, especially with the format we're all communicating in.
Solving the first three is a tad more difficult...
What's it gonna be?"
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http://www.huntamerica.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000971.html
"A while back I proposed that we get all the gun owners and gun manufacturers to simply stick together and quit obeying gun control, licensing, and registration laws. The point is, we already have legal protection for that right in the 2nd Amendment, so this is not a matter for Congress to settle, not for the President, not for the Supreme Court--as citizens, it is our business. We simply need to remind the government of that. This won't cost us anything but time...not even legal fees or bail, provided we all hang together.
That means we all carry openly, every day, while going to the grocery store,
renting movies, taking the kiddies to school, whether it's legal in your state or not, whether you even want to carry or not. Many of us wear our pistols everyday anyway, and those who don't--well, it seems like a small price to pay to help reaffirm our Constitutional right to bear arms. If we can get but 10% of the 80 million gun owners to participate, that averages out to 160,000 per state!!
We kick it off by getting at least 500 men and women together in as many towns as possible and simply gather in a big, open town square, park, etc., wearing our sidearms openly, and--heck, making ourselves as harmless-looking as possible...giving out free milk and cookies (hehe) to passersby. Read Dr. Seuss stories to kids with our big bad pistols on our belts. Be as innocent looking and unthreatening as possible. They gonna arrest 500, or 1,000, or 2,000 of us at one time? Heck no.
This is not meant to be a one time event...this would be a statement that as free citizens protected by the Bill of Rights, we are invoking the 2nd Amendment and announcing that, from here on, we will abide by the Bill of Rights alone in regards to our personal weapons.
So, there you have it. No verbal threats, no intentional intimidation or posturing, nothing at all like that. The government will never restore our 2nd Amendment protections no matter who we vote for, how often we vote, or how often the Supreme Court rules on it (which ain't often, folks).
If we all force the issue together by simply DOING what we have a right to DO, and
thereby tell the government that their unconstitutional laws have no force, there will be no war, probably very little or no violence at all if done right, peaceably, but confidently.
But then I guess it's easier to write checks, join the NRA, write letters, vote for pathetic windbags, bitch about our favorite overweight sexually-confused feminazi talk show hostess, complain about bad Public Relations moves, write-off the militias, cower before the government, and whine about the antis to each other than it is to stand up and act like Americans, peaceably, but confidently.
If you want something done right, do it yourself. We need no permission. We just need the will to get it done...peaceably, but confidently.
And don't give me the voting routine, cause natural rights are not bestowed by popular vote, and therefore can't be rescinded or restored by popular vote. The time has come to act. If we cannot, after all that has happened, after all that continues to happen, and all that we allow, well, that means as a group, us gunowners are either afraid, apathetic, stupid, or unorganized.
Solving the last one is easy, especially with the format we're all communicating in.
Solving the first three is a tad more difficult...
What's it gonna be?"
