Clinton, Brady, Democrats and RINOS tried to go for guns. They got their hats handed to them but some of the bad ideas stuck. But ultimately since guns last a long time and with hundreds of millions of them already in homes around the US getting rid of them entirely is nigh on impossible.
So they will shift their aim to expendables. Ammunition. Gunpowder. Cartridges.
They will try to make gun use/ownership onerous through regulation and taxes.
Example – Ammunition Accountability – which wants to laser etch unique identification into every bullet and cartridge. Bad idea. Expensive idea. Which is, of course, the whole idea.
Like gay activists, they will lop off liberal states first… CA, RI, VT, MA and try to force their agenda on us by reciprocal fait accompli.
I know that if this happens I will personally set up a Utah based website to sell clean ammo to any state in the union – at cost.
We have to fight them. It sucks they care so little about their freedom that they want to take ours. I don’t know why some people are like that. Why some people wake up each morning with a desperate yearning to control others. Unfortunately, big government gives them a vehicle to use. The 16th Amendment is the fuel. They use it to centralize power so they can force us to label ammo, accept marriages we think bogus, educational curriculums we disagree with, small cars when you have a big family. All things ONLY big government can force you to do.
Ultimately big government bites all hands. Somehow they foolishly think they will be exempted.
December 11th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
VT…your just throwing that in to catch my attention, can’t see us falling for any of that ammo BS…even if we did vote for change, this is something I just don’t see us changing here
In fact gunners of other states would love to steal a page from our playbook
plus I think we’re a bit more progressive/independent here than liberal…is there such a thing as a middle road?
December 11th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I included Vermont because it is hyper-liberal and prone to the use of taxation (Act 60?) and regulation (Act 250??) to accomplish goals the socialists can’t achieve through the ballot. Back up taxes and regulation with judges and you have Vermont.
Vermont on guns is a bit of an oxymoron that I don’t fully understand. That could be the independent side you mention.
The main point of my post wasn’t particularly about guns but about central power. VT is good example of that with education. What used to be very decentralized has, over the last decade, become very centralized and not for the better.
I’m a libertarian. I do not like the Federal government to do more than it needs to. Same for state and city.
As to middle of the road… I don’t believe that exists. That doesn’t mean that compromise can’t exist, just that it is highly overrated and usually errs on the side of more rules, government and less freedom. Not my preferred “middle”.
December 11th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
ok, you got me on Act 60…guess I haven’t been a property owner long enough to know better (taxes have always been high for me), remember I was graduating high school when Act 60 was passed
but yeah, our educations system stinks, but that is not just VT, and it goes way beyond what any funding plan can fix…
Lastly…I feel my generation is less party affiliated, but that might be related to what you said in a previous post, it could be related to the lack of proper parental behavior from our parents, or as you put it â€absolute WORST parental generation everâ€. That is, not sure how closely tied political ideology gets passed down from parenting, but I know there was no political talk around the dinner table when I was growing up…oh wait, you’d need to actually sit around a dinner table for that too!
I consider myself more independent than anything…but maybe I’m really just undecided, and you wondered how we (youth) fell for Obama the fake, well he sold us on the message of hope…maybe it turns out to be false hope, but with no parents telling us what to do, is about all we had to go on…in my view, Washington needs some serious house cleaning (or downsizing, I can relate to the traditional conservative approach of Republicans), but enough is enough, let’s get the old geezers out of there (no offense TR)
December 11th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I’m fairly different from Pops politically. So while it seems true that political acorns don’t fall far from the tree generally, this nut seems pretty far from _that_ nut.
Republicans talk about downsizing government but when they get their hands on other people’s money they go beserk too.
IMHO nothing changes until the key to the cash register (16th amendment) are taken back by responsible parents.
IOW.. we are hosed.
December 11th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
No geezer should be in government past age 62 and especially in DC! Geezers should golf, fish, travel and dine out as their funds permit, women included. Any work they do should be untaxed cottage industry, volunteer charity, or advisory board without pay but first class travel. It is practically impossible to offend me unless you commit assault, a crime. I will keep my prejudices among trusted friends and make jokes about anything. Vile humor is an evolutionary development that substitutes for violence. That’s why liberals can’t take a joke, they’re retarded.