rcawdor57
Campaign Veteran
Peacekeeper, are you a young person?
When I was young I felt as you do. As I have grown older (past 50 now) my eyes have been opened to many things. The country I grew up in is no more. What happened to it? One by one the people were trained in public schools and from ridiculous tv shows to bow down to "authority" and that it was our duty to comply. Now we have a nation of people that do not even know their rights. Let me give some examples of what is no more: When I was a teen I rode the school bus with either my double barrel 16 gauge shotgun and a box of shells or it was my .22LR bolt action Glenfield with several boxes of ammo. Into the school I would go and put the gun and ammo in the "coat closet" at the back of my homeroom class. In that closet there were usually quite a few shotguns and .22 rifles during hunting season. What happened? Guns were demonized by the LEFT and by their tv shows and news reporters. Gun owners were demonized to the point that now many gun owners are even ashamed to TALK about owning a gun. I have several neighbors that own guns but will not go to the range with me or even show me their guns. They are afraid of what their neighbors will think. What happened?
When I was a teen and we had a run in with the police we told them to get off our property and they left. (No crime had taken place, they were there to harass us). End of story. Try that now and see what happens. The police do not have the authority to enter your home or property just because they want to....but many police think they do and even more people believe it to be true.
What happened?
When I was a teen it was no big deal to photograph police or anyone else for that matter in public. Now try that openly in many states and the police will arrest you. For what? For taking pictures of them. What happened?
So here we are today in 2010 working to restore this country back to something that resembles a Republic instead of a police state. We don't have many "rights" left and I will be damned if I am going to "voluntarily" submit to any government representatives "request".
Every right we have must be fought for and not be "given away" just because a police officer asks you to or tells you you have no choice. You DO have a choice. Make the right one.
When I was young I felt as you do. As I have grown older (past 50 now) my eyes have been opened to many things. The country I grew up in is no more. What happened to it? One by one the people were trained in public schools and from ridiculous tv shows to bow down to "authority" and that it was our duty to comply. Now we have a nation of people that do not even know their rights. Let me give some examples of what is no more: When I was a teen I rode the school bus with either my double barrel 16 gauge shotgun and a box of shells or it was my .22LR bolt action Glenfield with several boxes of ammo. Into the school I would go and put the gun and ammo in the "coat closet" at the back of my homeroom class. In that closet there were usually quite a few shotguns and .22 rifles during hunting season. What happened? Guns were demonized by the LEFT and by their tv shows and news reporters. Gun owners were demonized to the point that now many gun owners are even ashamed to TALK about owning a gun. I have several neighbors that own guns but will not go to the range with me or even show me their guns. They are afraid of what their neighbors will think. What happened?
When I was a teen and we had a run in with the police we told them to get off our property and they left. (No crime had taken place, they were there to harass us). End of story. Try that now and see what happens. The police do not have the authority to enter your home or property just because they want to....but many police think they do and even more people believe it to be true.
What happened?
When I was a teen it was no big deal to photograph police or anyone else for that matter in public. Now try that openly in many states and the police will arrest you. For what? For taking pictures of them. What happened?
So here we are today in 2010 working to restore this country back to something that resembles a Republic instead of a police state. We don't have many "rights" left and I will be damned if I am going to "voluntarily" submit to any government representatives "request".
Every right we have must be fought for and not be "given away" just because a police officer asks you to or tells you you have no choice. You DO have a choice. Make the right one.