Most U.S. teens for tighter gun control, survey says

With all the programing kids are fed as they go thru school, no wonder.

And after reading "Wrong Number" all about those anti-gun polls, I am learly of any poll.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Incursion:
Most people around my age (19) are anti gun. Everyone that comes to my dorm room (I have HK posters on the wall), or that hears me say that I want to get a gun thinks I'm insane. It's quite sad. Even one of my good friends asked me if I was paranoid because I told him I was reading Massad Ayoob's The Truth About Self-Protection. My friends think I'm a nut.[/quote]

Incursion, 22 here -- and trust me, it doesn't get any better than the older you get. But it does help to surround yerself with other rednecks (if yer that type). Helps to ease the pain my friend. :D

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Incursion, what school do you go to? I go to Purdue, and I do have a reputation as the local gun crank, but I've also had people stop by my dorm room to talk hunting or shooting, seek advice on guns, etc. I've gotten a few novices out to the range that way.

Purdue is still a university, but seems to be a bit less liberal than most.

Later,
Chris

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Well they sure as hell didn't ask me.

The sad thing is that it's our public image, not the guns themselves. I usually don't expouse my views on gun ownership right off the bat. Once they find out I own guns and shoot, they inevitably say "well someone like you should be ALLOWED to have guns, but most gun owners are redneck Klan members ect, ect." I guess the word "allows" scares me thew most. Obviously, my peers don't understand what the Constitutionm is all about...
 
hey, im 16, and everyone is anti gun in lapeer michigan. i hate it. they all think im insane just because i stick up for the constitution.btw, did you know the d.a.r.e. drug program helps brainwash my piers into thinking guns are bad? i remember back in 9th grade the officer that was teaching it said its a bad idea to keep a gun for self defense, and he used that stupid excuse that you are 44% more likely to shoot a family member or yourself. i hated it. btw, most girls i know eat this stuff up. girls seem to be the problem, not nearly as much as the guys. it seems if there is an antigun guy around here, he only does it so he has something to hate me for with the girls. its pretty sad.
 
I go to UT Austin. Austin is definitely the most liberal city in the state. Kamakaze, I'm not even anglo; I'm an American born Chinese. There are many Asians that are big on guns, but a lot of my friends are Indian. I think Indians tend to be Democratic.
 
Screw their polls. Most are junk anyway re the way the questions are posed. & as with the "know anybody dead?" query, results will be skewed as the "designers" - a bunch of high schoolers themselves coached by a nitwit communist - are.

Aside form that, it is scarey. Who was it that said "give me your children for one generation ... ?"
 
I am a college student as well. Granted, the people I see on campus, day to day, are "smart" and "informed", but only in a manner consistent the new world view of society/people as the flock, and government as the shepherd.

Knowing what I know now about RKBA and individual rights in general, I walk through campus feeling like an alien sometimes, its all I can do to get to a computer lab and log on to The Firing Line, where people make sense. Because the scary realities of the political climate of today's colleges are truly Orwelian. My peers call racism "social justice", they call civilian disarmament "rational", they call de facto censorship and gonvernment control "progressive", and they consider government theft of individual property to be for the public good. They believe the utterly leftist controlled media. Sure, and 2 + 2 = 5 .

I have encountered many law students who consider the constitution to be dangerous and outdated. These are the people who will re-interpret and "update" the ground-rules for the new tomorrow. This, to me, is an absolutely insane state of affairs.

My advice for the other kids out there: aquire an anonomous email address, keep a low profile, and get some encryption software. Carnivore and Echelon are out there, and there isn't a person on this board Uncle Sugar couldn't have disappear if he really wanted them to. (ever hear of Vince Foster?) Read everything you can get your hands on, stay optimistic and motivated. Twenty years from now you will not regret it.

We are in deep bandini. Something is coming.


...from Mr. Pink in la-la land.



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Well, it is always easy to give up SOMEONE ELSES rights. These kids already have been conditioned into giving up rights and it is especially easy for them when they don't realize how much freedom they have already lost.
 
Most U.S. teens also think that the Back Street Boys are a real band.

Most U.S. teens couldn't find Canada on a map.

Most U.S. teens think piercing their nipples if fun also.

Remember if your under thrity and your not a liberal then you don't have a heart, if your over thirty and your a liberal then you don't have a brain.

I must have never had a heart. :)
 
as a us teen (only for another 5 months) i would say that a great MAJORITY of us teens are for gun control. a great MAJORITY of them have never been shooting. luckily, a great MAJORITY of them also don't vote.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR> from Incursion
I go to UT Austin. Austin is definitely the most liberal city in the state. Kamakaze, I'm not even anglo; I'm an American born Chinese. There are many Asians that are big on guns, but a lot of my friends are Indian. I think Indians tend to be Democratic.
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Oh that doesn't mean anything! One of my roommates is Korean (born in Korea), but he has proudly been adopted as a "naturalized redneck." Of course, it didn't help that when his family moved, they moved into North Gerogia.. so at the age of six, he had plenty to learn! :D At any rate.. [warning, possibly racist statement ahead] I am shocked at the number of people who are from foriegn countries that do not utilize their rights as an American citizen to their fullest extent. It would seem to me, that these people should and would be the most vocal about keeping their rights as an American citizen seeing that they were probably "oppressed" (in a way) in their home countries.. Who knows? This is just from personal experience, as I know this profile doesn't fit everyone.. like yourself.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR> from Mr. Pink
My advice for the other kids out there: aquire an anonomous email address, keep a low profile, and get some encryption software. Carnivore and Echelon are out there, and there isn't a person on this board Uncle Sugar couldn't have disappear if he really wanted them to. (ever hear of Vince Foster?) Read everything you can get your hands on, stay optimistic and motivated. Twenty years from now you will not regret it.
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I could not disagree with you more! Privacy is not the issue here. Remember, if you're on the Internet, you forfiet your right to privacy. And about keeping quiet.. [rant] I have kept quiet for long enough. I used to keep my lip zipped about gun ownership and the arguement of rights. However, I have done such for too long. It has only been in the last year that I have become the most vocal person I know (personally) regarding such issues. Many people are shocked. Even more are scared. And they should be. I would rather be thought of as a crazy at this point, only to turn out wrong.. then wonder, twenty years from now.. why I did not fight so hard to preserve what I thought is right. The problem these days, is that so few people care to stick out in the crowd for fear of persecution for what they believe in. Unfortunately, people in my position have been demonized to the point that we feel paranoid about openly discussing such things. So, I will continue to voice my opinons (in a police and non-threatening manner) until "the day comes" that it is no longer prudent that I do such. So long as it is lawful (to the most part) for me to own guns and utilize them to the extent that I feel was allowed by the Constitution, then so beit. But as soon as my own government turns me into a criminal through the passage of such unConstitutional laws, then they can expect "criminal behaviour" from a once law-abiding citizen. We may be very young to believe in such things.. but I think we are part of a dying breed.. to be Patriotic these days is against the grain and it pains me to the point that I can't stand it. I literally want to hurl every time I hear Slick Willie say "My Fellow Americans" or mention his views on something he knows little of (ie, the military). If this latest business about having any other nation's flag fly higher than the American flag does not make you sick to your inner core.. then you too may need to re-evaluate what it is to be an American. Call me romantic. I may be young, but I *know* the way things used to be. I also know they may never return to that point. I know I will fight for the rights of the people that will appreciate people like us in time... [/rant]

**reaches for blood pressure medication**

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"We lost the first and third and now they are after the Second!(no pun intended)"

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