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Why do we have to be all nice and sweet to people that want to disarm us?
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<blockquote data-quote="flybeech" data-source="post: 2060145" data-attributes="member: 7557"><p>Respectfully, let me ask you to help me "get it". I will respectfully listen to all constructive criticism and ideas of ways to always remain nice to people I perceive as the enemy of the Constitution, if it seems reasonably effective.</p><p></p><p>I may have wrongly assumed that this forum was populated with a crowd that is generally much more friendly toward the Constitution and the Bill of Rights than the average man on the street, so I tend to let it all hang out a little more in a 2A forum on a shooting website, than I would if I were among a Code Pink gathering. I understand that even among modern conservatives, being Constitutionalist makes me a nut-case, in and of itself, as well as the documented enemy of TPTB. Since passage of the NFA of 1934 and the GCA of 1968, the right to keep and bear arms has been continually been eroded and if one can't say anything nice, it's best to say nothing at all. In my view, the immediate trend is to impute further restrictions that historically lead to total disarmament.</p><p></p><p>Maybe I am reading too much into the Feinstein Bill, the UN Small Arms Treaty and the numerous other legislative assaults on the 2A. IMHO, being nice isn't going to sway those people in the least. Being nice has led us to where we are today, facing imminent and sweeping gun restrictions. Chairman Mao was right when he said political power comes from the barrel of a gun. Germany demonstrated what can happen when citizens are disarmed. Stalin disarmed the Russian people before he purged millions of Russian citizens and the Red-Coats wanted to disarm the colonists. I do not view people who wish me to relinquish my Constitutional rights very favorably and admittedly, it is a real challenge to be nice to them.</p><p></p><p>Maybe I do need to take the advise of most here, take a chill-pill, set my anger aside and shut up, adopting the popular idea that the government needs to restrict liberty to keep us safe and the Second Amendment rightly should be infringed by government in the name of perceived public safety. Step, by little step, the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose the Founding Fathers intended will disappear under the force of government, all in the name of safety.</p><p></p><p>With all due respect, is making nice the best way to defend liberty? What nice methods have people of other countries successfully used to preserve their rights? What non-threatening methods can be used today that will not offend those that want us disarmed and convince them that we should continue to enjoy our remaining 2A privileges? Is there ever any point in time when it's right to stop making nice with people who are not friends of the Constitution?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flybeech, post: 2060145, member: 7557"] Respectfully, let me ask you to help me "get it". I will respectfully listen to all constructive criticism and ideas of ways to always remain nice to people I perceive as the enemy of the Constitution, if it seems reasonably effective. I may have wrongly assumed that this forum was populated with a crowd that is generally much more friendly toward the Constitution and the Bill of Rights than the average man on the street, so I tend to let it all hang out a little more in a 2A forum on a shooting website, than I would if I were among a Code Pink gathering. I understand that even among modern conservatives, being Constitutionalist makes me a nut-case, in and of itself, as well as the documented enemy of TPTB. Since passage of the NFA of 1934 and the GCA of 1968, the right to keep and bear arms has been continually been eroded and if one can't say anything nice, it's best to say nothing at all. In my view, the immediate trend is to impute further restrictions that historically lead to total disarmament. Maybe I am reading too much into the Feinstein Bill, the UN Small Arms Treaty and the numerous other legislative assaults on the 2A. IMHO, being nice isn't going to sway those people in the least. Being nice has led us to where we are today, facing imminent and sweeping gun restrictions. Chairman Mao was right when he said political power comes from the barrel of a gun. Germany demonstrated what can happen when citizens are disarmed. Stalin disarmed the Russian people before he purged millions of Russian citizens and the Red-Coats wanted to disarm the colonists. I do not view people who wish me to relinquish my Constitutional rights very favorably and admittedly, it is a real challenge to be nice to them. Maybe I do need to take the advise of most here, take a chill-pill, set my anger aside and shut up, adopting the popular idea that the government needs to restrict liberty to keep us safe and the Second Amendment rightly should be infringed by government in the name of perceived public safety. Step, by little step, the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose the Founding Fathers intended will disappear under the force of government, all in the name of safety. With all due respect, is making nice the best way to defend liberty? What nice methods have people of other countries successfully used to preserve their rights? What non-threatening methods can be used today that will not offend those that want us disarmed and convince them that we should continue to enjoy our remaining 2A privileges? Is there ever any point in time when it's right to stop making nice with people who are not friends of the Constitution? [/QUOTE]
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