This generation is lost

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hube1236

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I am thirty.

My parents and their generation screwed everything up.

I am giving up on this (mine) X generation as a bunch of apethetic losers. Like Mr, Hamblin said today, no one cares about privacy if it is considered cool to bear your secrets to everyone.

Well I took my step daughter (13) to the range tonight. I taught her the 4 rules. How to load an automatic and how to unload (important). Never hand somebody your gun without inspecting the chamber. Never give the gun again to someone who does not reinspect upon reception. I love guns, I love her and her mom. I have turned an anti into a wife of a gun owner who wants one of her own and a step daughter who knows that guns only amplify the evil in men's hearts.

Teach your kids. Our cause is lost without them.
 
Yeah, gen x and babyboomers largely are the core of the anti-gun movement. College kids on the most part agree with whoever just argued with them most recently. An anti argues with college kids, they turn anti. I go argue with them, they turn pro. It's hillarious and pathetic at the same time.

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The Alcove

I twist the facts until they tell the truth. -Some intellectual sadist

The Bill of Rights is a document of brilliance, a document of wisdom, and it is the ultimate law, spoken or not, for the very concept of a society that holds liberty above the desire for ever greater power. -Me
 
I recently bought a Browning Buckmark .22 to use to teach my girlfriend and any other antis that are willing to listen to common sense.
 
Don't give up, lads. The term "Lost Generation" was first applied to Hemingway's bunch.

Hell, in truth, it probably started in the latter chapters of Genesis...
 
good for you.
being 14(15 in a few days) i am glad to see females of my generation getting schooled in firearms.
a lot of the guys are but not many of the girls.
wish i could meet a few who were at least tolerant of my habits, knife making/collecting and guns.
but i almost have my girl friend talked into learning to shoot.so hope is springing eternal.

all of you with kids get them to the range, get them started.
started with a bb gun when i was 6, moved to a .22 rifle when i was 7. 8 .22 pistol. 9 shot my first 9mm, and first 30.30.
10 i was skilled in everything i had shot to that point and was getting into the .30 carbine pistol.
at 13 i got the balls to shoot the 30.06 and now i own a .32 acp, a 9mm, a 30.06 and after saturday i will probably own a .45

i am proud to say that i am a product of early schooling in firearms.
every gun nut needs a kid like me.
but dad does get annoyed when i can identify more guns just on first sight then he can. hehe.
 
I'm 31. You'll be hard-pressed to find someone more pro-gun than I am. There are some who are AS pro-gun, but you'd have to favor nukes and germ warfare devices in civilian hands to be to the right of me on that issue.

And I refuse to give up the fight for people my age and younger. There are a LOT of them that CAN be reached. It's just going to take some work, and it's up to us to get the job done.
 
Dangus: The really sad part is that many of the students at my Univ. are "anti-establishment" and tend to be very liberal and talk about how bad capitalism, conservatives, etc. are, and then they show up to their anti-consumerism demonstrations in Abercrombie clothes.

Don't give up on us though, there are still a lot of outstanding citizens in Gen X and Y.
 
Generation What ? Who ?

Just because some old hippies thought they saved the world with crappy music, misguided half-@ssed idealism, and moralizing to both their parents AND children does not mean they get to put a label on me.

I'm an American dammit ! I think for myself, and not what some old, sell out yuppie at MTV tells me too think.
 
I disagree--
I'm a boomer, but unlike Klink, can be trusted alone in a room with another man's wife or daughter... ( I can also be trusted with National Security secrets better, too, but that's another rant...)
My nieces are the only X-ers I run into a lot, and they despise the 'Toons and their pack of enablers, so there is hope for this generation, IMO...
 
I'm 25 now, and I've been pro-gun since my earliest youth, although I
haven't fired anything using cartridges until I was 12. But then,
living in Switzerland with compulsory military service.

Also, I had shooting instruction in a Gun club, with our SIG 550 and
our service pistol.

I just support four gun control measures:

1. Background check for any gun buyer wether he has a really criminal
record

2. Shooting and self-defense laws exams for people who want to carry

3. Any full-auto or silencer has to be stored in a safe in order to
avoid theft

4. Armor-piercing ammo (ie. steel core, ceramic core) is a no-no when
carrying a gun. The chance of over-penetration is just too high.

Alas, we even have more than that in Switzerland.
 
I'm with MTAA and johnr. I am 54 years young and despise what many of my peers did when we were growing up.
I also admit that a lot of the blame for the way our kids are today should be placed squarely on the shoulders of our generation. Some of us thought it was OK to do drugs, to live in communes with free sex and all the drugs you wanted, to protest everything and everyone that did not agree with their screwed up way of thinking, to leave our great country when asked to serve it, (and then come back and lead it-Klinton), to throw out respect and responsibility, to condone taking things rather than earning them, oops, I better stop, I am starting to get riled up!!!!
But for the record, I was NOT one of those.
I now work as head custodian in a high school of 1700 of the most rowdy, disrespectful, sloppy, beligerant, arrogant, and uninformed kids that you can imagine.
Yes, this behavior is condoned by a lot of our teachers, and by our very liberal school administrators who are all slightly younger than I, and our school board that does not want to offend a parent with a levy coming up next month! And we are one of the so-called, or is it self-called, "elite" school districts in southwest Ohio!
I am sure that I am not, but it seems as if I am the only one in our building that gives a damn about what goes on here.
My son is 33 years old, has a great wife, 2 young daughters that I love dearly, goes to school part-time while working a 50-60 hour week, and never fails to tell me he loves me when we get together.
I tried to raise him with respect for others, and a respect for himself, to do things the right way rather than the easy way.I am one of the luckiest dads alive!!
I love my family. I love my country. And I respect and admire those of you that also made every effort to raise your children the right way. I will stand beside you WTSHTF!
It is very sad that we are the minority.
Braggart and RANT mode are now off.
Dennie NRA Life Member, GOA
 
I am 64 and the "Lost Generation" label has been applied to every generation in my lifetime. On the other hand, each successive generation has been sublected to less parental guidance and more government control. Wasn't it Adolph Schikelgruber Hitler who said if he got to them early enough he could train them any way he wanted to. With all the emphasis on neo-natal daycare, headstart etc. children are away fron their parents at much earlier ages than in yesteryears. And they are being taught revised history and Godless religion in our enlightened schools that would rather teach that crap instead of the three R's.

It just goes to show you that "Some people still confuse motion with progress"

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You have to be there when it's all over. Otherwise you can't say "I told you so."

Better days to be,

Ed
 
In my best Eric Cartman voice:

"Hippies, Hippies everywhere! They wanna save the world, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad."

I guess I'm a gen Xer too (25) and I hate being titled as that. I'm doing everything I can to help more folks get into shooting.
 
The only freedom loving people I know are between 27 and 31. Those who are between 55 and 70 keep saying things like, "That's the law and you can't do anything about it," or the ever popular, "It's always been that way."
 
You're right, Mikul, about a lot of older folks. They've lost they're fight. It's up to us, as younger folks to do the fighting. That's a cross I bear quite willingly. You're wrong about younger folks, though...I'm 25 and you know me!
 
I am 25 but I am not a Gen Xer. I am not a Gen anything. I am just a guy who believes in freedoms in Bill of Rights. I hate labeling.
 
I'm 30, and I think I've figured it out: All you people who are responsible, pro-freedom and pro-family, have a bunch of kids. Raise them right, and teach them yourselves. If we can't out-convince them, we'll out-breed them! The only flaw in my plan so far, is that truly responsible people don't make babies they can't support.
One of the most true things said in Proverbs goes something like this: "Raise up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
I did all sorts of stupid things as a teenager. I made every mistake I think is possible without going to prison. I was quite stupid, but then I joined the Army. After the Army, I became my father! It is amazing how that works. I rejected almost every one of his values for about 2 years. I'm sure he had a lot of heartbreak with me, but I came back to his ways and now I'm raising my own whom I am sure will do something similar. Remember that no matter how stupid your kids get in their late teens, they do come back around. This is one of those immutable laws of nature.
What does all this mean? It means keep your kids out of daycare if you can. You need to raise them, and you need to guide them. They are YOUR responsibility, and the reason the Govt wants them earlier and earlier is so that they can indoctrinate them when it really does some good. A child is set on his way by the age of 5. He already (whether you see it or not) is as intellegent as he will become, and is only lacking experience. He also has developed his basic belief systems to which he will only add a little from his life's experiences. Do you want him to have the minimum wage daycare worker's belief system or your own? Do you want him to have a government approved belief system or your own?
I brew my own beer, make my own ammo, and by God, I'll raise my own son.
 
What kjm said, and then some.

Actually, the size and strength of the homeschooling movement is probably the best sign of hope for our country right now. The antis and the pc crowd have taken over America's classrooms. The system has been overrun and the generations that have been and are being brainwashed by it are mostly a lost cause.

But it's heartening to see so many parents are rebelling and pulling their kids out of that system, especially when you realize that the average homeschooling family has four children (a lot have more kids than that). Not only so, but homeschoolers are, for the most part, serious about teaching their children the dual lessons of personal freedom and individual responsibility.

No wonder the antis and the big government folks don't like this trend. It threatens their future.

pax


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"Is there anything wrong with a woman preferring the dignity of an armed citizen? I don't like to be coddled and I don't like to be treated like a minor child. So I waive immunity and claim my right -- I go armed." -- Longcourt Phyllis in Beyond This Horizon by Robert Heinlein
 
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