Access to guns was easier when I was young than now, and things weren't like they are today. There are other things in the mix.
I don't own a non-military looks military rifle like an AR-15. The desire to own them is something new. I've had friends with no military background ask me to teach them how to field strip their AR-15s and non-mi…
Access to guns was easier when I was young than now, and things weren't like they are today. There are other things in the mix.
I don't own a non-military looks military rifle like an AR-15. The desire to own them is something new. I've had friends with no military background ask me to teach them how to field strip their AR-15s and non-military version AK-47s so they could clean them. I took one to a rifle range to teach him safety and marksmanship. Do I think it good that the clueless are buying them like cheeseburgers? Not really, but it's what happens when the anti-gunner politicians run their mouth. They were bought in record numbers under the Obama administration and now the Biden administration. What hath the "We're going to ban them" babblers wrought? This: https://tinyurl.com/yc23v2jn If there wasn't all the ban them talk, I don't think so many people would be buying them. "Better get one while I can, even if I have no idea how to use it."
I don't hunt or compete in shooting competitions anymore, but I don't sell my firearms because I don't believe in unilateral disarmament. My neighborhood has deteriorated over the years. On the citizen app I regularly see reports of robberies, assaults, stabbings and shootings within two miles of my home. If I lived in NY or Hawaii that would not get me a needs-based permit. I live in a Constitutional Carry state, but I took the training, tested and obtained a Concealed Firearms Permit that I don't actually need. It is very rare that I carry a firearm. I don't want to, but I want to be able to because criminals and idiots are. I carried an M-16 everywhere for 20 months, I don't want to do that again and don't want America to look like that. I don't have visions of killing bad guys. I don't even like mercifully finishing off the badly wounded birds that my cats bring in.
The real enemies? The ultra-rich globalists who have no use for the 2nd Amendment or nationhood. They view red-blue politics, intersectionality, racial divide and all complex divisive issues as tools to distract us from what they are doing. They've always done that, but it is much easier with the internet. Conservative/Liberal is a facade when it comes to them. They really don't care about that except for its divisiveness.
All that to say that the world we live in is not the world we wish it to be. This commentary which has ranged widely is about the lack of clear definitions, brought on largely by activists who push so hard that they guarantee pushback to a degree that solutions are made impossible. As long as activism feels threatening to us, rather than to the power elite they will do their best to perpetuate it since the activists are acting as the power elite's useful idiots. As George Carlin famously said, "The owners don't give a f*k about you" or me.
Our cats came from parts unknown and moved in with us. We recently had the second occurrence of a cat observing us in the back yard, sizing us up for a few days and then walking in through the pet flap they saw our cats going in and out of and making itself at home. My kindhearted wife is an animal magnet. Interesting since as a child in Thailand farmers dogs' bit her and monkeys pissed on her from trees.
With the exception of one, they have all already been neutered. Cats have excellent homing ability, so they were either abandoned or decided they didn't like it where they were. Keeping them inside is not easy.
There are too many "I'm moving and can't take our dog and need to rehome it" or in the case of cats, just abandoning them. People suck.
Access to guns was easier when I was young than now, and things weren't like they are today. There are other things in the mix.
I don't own a non-military looks military rifle like an AR-15. The desire to own them is something new. I've had friends with no military background ask me to teach them how to field strip their AR-15s and non-military version AK-47s so they could clean them. I took one to a rifle range to teach him safety and marksmanship. Do I think it good that the clueless are buying them like cheeseburgers? Not really, but it's what happens when the anti-gunner politicians run their mouth. They were bought in record numbers under the Obama administration and now the Biden administration. What hath the "We're going to ban them" babblers wrought? This: https://tinyurl.com/yc23v2jn If there wasn't all the ban them talk, I don't think so many people would be buying them. "Better get one while I can, even if I have no idea how to use it."
I don't hunt or compete in shooting competitions anymore, but I don't sell my firearms because I don't believe in unilateral disarmament. My neighborhood has deteriorated over the years. On the citizen app I regularly see reports of robberies, assaults, stabbings and shootings within two miles of my home. If I lived in NY or Hawaii that would not get me a needs-based permit. I live in a Constitutional Carry state, but I took the training, tested and obtained a Concealed Firearms Permit that I don't actually need. It is very rare that I carry a firearm. I don't want to, but I want to be able to because criminals and idiots are. I carried an M-16 everywhere for 20 months, I don't want to do that again and don't want America to look like that. I don't have visions of killing bad guys. I don't even like mercifully finishing off the badly wounded birds that my cats bring in.
The real enemies? The ultra-rich globalists who have no use for the 2nd Amendment or nationhood. They view red-blue politics, intersectionality, racial divide and all complex divisive issues as tools to distract us from what they are doing. They've always done that, but it is much easier with the internet. Conservative/Liberal is a facade when it comes to them. They really don't care about that except for its divisiveness.
All that to say that the world we live in is not the world we wish it to be. This commentary which has ranged widely is about the lack of clear definitions, brought on largely by activists who push so hard that they guarantee pushback to a degree that solutions are made impossible. As long as activism feels threatening to us, rather than to the power elite they will do their best to perpetuate it since the activists are acting as the power elite's useful idiots. As George Carlin famously said, "The owners don't give a f*k about you" or me.
I agree with every word you say except th gun-grabbers stuff.
Nobody needs an assault rifle, and the fear they will be banned doesn’t change that.
My cats stay inside. Cat kill too many birds.
Our cats came from parts unknown and moved in with us. We recently had the second occurrence of a cat observing us in the back yard, sizing us up for a few days and then walking in through the pet flap they saw our cats going in and out of and making itself at home. My kindhearted wife is an animal magnet. Interesting since as a child in Thailand farmers dogs' bit her and monkeys pissed on her from trees.
With the exception of one, they have all already been neutered. Cats have excellent homing ability, so they were either abandoned or decided they didn't like it where they were. Keeping them inside is not easy.
There are too many "I'm moving and can't take our dog and need to rehome it" or in the case of cats, just abandoning them. People suck.