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redhawk wrote:
Most of us out here in the middle of the country are more sensable than to try and have a get together for a picnic to express a right that we know will offend others. Personally I look at it this way. I have the right to free speach but I also have a right not to speak when it's the appropriate. That doesn't mean that I'm willing to give up my right or let them slip away. Giving my opinion may often be imflamitory to some so I choose not to unless I feel the NEED. Personally I don't feel a need to strap on my pistol and go to a park for a picnic with a bunch of other folks doing the same just to show everyone they can do it. Personally I think doing so is silly and counter productive.
Treat our open carry laws with respect, use them appropriately and why in the world would you want to draw that kind of attention to yourself when you don't need to. Be thankful open carry is legal and please respect it and those around you. If you want to make a statement do so on something that is being wrongfully taken away from us not on something that is rightfully ours and not being fooled with
redhawk Read all of my reply or none of it.
It is an
Open Letter to all Nebraskans
You are welcome to express your words here but choose them wisely.
You speak for "
Most of us out here in the middle of the country" by what authority? Are you a high level elected official representing what % of the popular vote? You are only more vocal than some and that is my embarrassment regarding the people in my home state of Nebraska right now.
You would do well to read of events, laws and loss of 2nd Amendment rights beyond your back yard (even within your home state - where ever that is) before you make such sweeping generalizations.
Since you have given your opinion, I must presume that you have a "NEED." What might that be, sir? We respect your right to not open carry or for that matter to not carry a defensive tool at all. Why would you not respect even support our right to the embrace that which the 2nd Amendment and the United States Supreme Court confirms is our
right?
Which other rights do you think we should express more carefully if we offend or inflame someone? There are quite a few from which to choose - pick one.
You tell me how you "feel" but not what the law of our land says. I have the absolute, God given right, to defend myself and my family by what ever means necessary. Beyond that, no tool that I might possess is any kind of threat to you or others. That is what I think - that is the truth I speak.
Treat our open carry laws with respect? Which ones. sir? The ones in New York, Chicago, Omaha, Denver, Washington D.C., Hawaii or do you mean the ones in Alaska, New Hamshire, Virginia? I somehow do not believe you mean the ones delineated in the Bill of Rights.
We
are making a statement on something that is and has been "taken away from us" and "being fooled with"! I imagine that it is our growing dissatisfaction and refusal to quietly acquiesce to the old ways that bothers you the most - we are winning a majority of the time. Our numbers are growing to such a degree that you found a "NEED" to express yourself as you have.
The fact that many of us can open carry is not your point - I understand that. Why do we have meet ups, picnics, dinners and the like? Because we enjoy sharing and meeting with other people in a quiet social environment. Because we wish to educate and inform other people about the legality of what we do and by demonstrating that we are no more of threat than their best friend.
Why do we rally and become proactive when we perceive the need? Because something is "wrongfully (being) taken away from us...... that is rightfully ours and.... being fooled with"!
It's possible that you live out in the wide open spaces or a sparcely populated town in the western a part of Nebraska that I so love - I have relatives in Alliance, Ne. If that be the case, I think I am envious. A majority of the people in this great land of ours, live in densly populated urban cities and disarmed are victims waiting to happen. I hope you never have the need to defend your wife or daughter from a vicious assault, ever. I mean that.
We have in our OCDO community people that have been beaten severely, raped and had family members murdered. What would you tell the them? That you don't feel they have the need?
Yata hey