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January 19, 2020, 02:20 PM | #26 | |
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What and how are they using your Knowledge/experience against you? You are never wrong if you are sincerely trying to help someone that is uninformed. If you are referring to how they vote and their opinions, then that's just the way it goes. I have a number of friends who are anti-gun and they are entitled to their opinions. I'm always willing to help anyone even though they don't agree with my "opinions". I guess the biggest factor is "Respect" which is not a one-way street. ….. L.B.C. and; Be Safe !!!
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January 19, 2020, 02:40 PM | #27 |
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Never compromise your 2nd Amendment rights.
There is no compromise possible when the result only penalizes one side of the argument. One side gets some of what they want and the other has to live with new restrictions and limitations. Often requiring them to get government approval to purchase, own or sell the tool of their choice. Not sure how that fits into the concept of freedom that so many before us have spilled their blood protecting. Never Compromise Your Second Amendment Rights!!!!
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There are levels where we react and respond to people based on social and cultural factors. There are other levels where we should respond simply because they are fellow human beings.
If my despised neighbor who forced me to spend thousands of dollars on a fence to define property boundaries were having his leg eaten by rabid ferrets on crystal meth, and I were in a position to stop it, I would. If his car was broke and he asked me for a ride to the "ban the AR-15" rally, I'd tell him, "you got feet, used them!" But I wouldn't stop him from getting there. I think the proper reaction also should involve how much you know about the person asking for help and what help they are asking for. Suppose a total stranger approaches you and says "I'm a writer, doing research for a book /paper /report and I've checked, you are someone who knows, can you tell me how a terrorist would blow up a bridge?? (or make a bomb, or …..) NOW what do you do? Judgement call time. Suppose they work for "Ban them all NOW! Inc." and they ask how you how to properly define gun terms or how this might be converted to that, etc. so they can get the proposed new law's wording "right"?? Personally, I wouldn't be inclined to help that guy, with THAT "problem".
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January 19, 2020, 04:14 PM | #29 |
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best approach I can recommend is with the exception of within a professional capacity (plumbers, doctors...), and no other option is available, have nothing to do with people that are against your rights, I don't see how they will add anything positive to your life.
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January 19, 2020, 04:31 PM | #30 | |
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May touch your heart but don't let them poison it.
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Matters little as they will eventually get frustrated and abandon your relationship ….. "Had" a buddy that I shot with and shared gun-stuff with. We made a deal that we should not let our politics get in the way of our friendship. He just couldn't keep his mouth shut and eventually, did us both a favor by breaking off our friendship. I wish him well ….. Be Safe !!!
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I thought this was interesting in the context of how to define allies: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/...irginia-rally/ |
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January 20, 2020, 09:08 AM | #34 | |
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Wait for it.........JERRYS. It only takes a majority to take away any "guarantees" we have. ....as for helping out non-gun owners. The Pledge of Allegiance has the phase "one nation under God" in it. The Bible has a parable about a man helping another man, who is from a culture hated by his own. Seems they should go together....not against each other. |
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January 20, 2020, 09:55 AM | #35 |
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If they're so smart that they know better than I do about what restrictions are acceptable, then they're smart enough to solve their own problems.
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January 20, 2020, 04:15 PM | #36 | |
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It goes against your moral code of ethics. Another person can't tell you what to believe and put pressure on you to "go along". Anyhow - when it gets right down to it - the people you don't help, in all likelihood wouldn't take your advice anyhow - so screw em.. . |
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January 20, 2020, 10:06 PM | #37 |
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Here comes the monkey wrench!!
I guess I better not-yea Im chicken. PS-Im not supporting many (D) supporters lately. Why should I bust my buns and then get voted against. How do gun laws progress but by those supporting (D)s. Look at the US Senate in MI. Been (D)s forever. This fall we will have another chance go fix that but!!!! JOHN JAMES for US Senate 2020 along w/ TRUMP. Hal just above--you are absolutely correct. Way back in 1976 we supported a good man for US House. Went around and circulated petitions for nomination etc.. The local gun shop owner, claimed NRA lifer, always bitching about govt etc. Asked him to sign nomination petition. Said NO -dont know the man. Wopw not asking to vote for him (yet) just get him on the ballot. Found out later the yahoo wasnt ever registered to vote. Worst part I let him slide and never called him on it. Last edited by langenc; January 20, 2020 at 10:15 PM. |
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January 21, 2020, 11:30 AM | #39 |
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Nothing wrong with helping a leftist change a tire or such but I'm not doing anything to help with their leftist agenda. As far as comprise, you best not comprise on your rights or sooner or later you won't have any. There is a Liberal Gun Club forum, wander over there and find out what leftist gun owners believe and how they act. Folks, they are not like us!.....
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The Golden Rule might require many things including:
1. Helping others to avoid voting for public policy blunders that abuse people's rights, and 2. Not oneself voting for laws that infringe on people's valid rights. B. Roberts question is "Why should we help gun owners who support gun control?" These are people who already support a restriction. Does helping one of them enable that person to support a restriction, or to support it more effectively? Does helping one of them offer a promise that they would be less inclined to support such a restriction? Without some detail to a hypothetical, one can't know whether assisting an individual increases the risk of a harm.
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Mr. Roberts, I go back to my first response. Why do you even feel the need to ask this question? Why are you Questioning your own motives and morals?
I receive phone calls daily from people I know are pollsters. I do not answer those calls and don't feel bad buy not doing it. On this point my opinion is my own and I don't feel the need to share it no matter which party is asking. I don't ask people what political party they belong to, which church they attend or who or what they are sleeping with. I expect the same courtesy in return. People come to these forum for many reason and one is to seek help, now if I didn't want to help people with their gun/shooting/reloading problems then I wouldn't come here. Right? Say for reloading I have a Red press and you have a blue press and during the course of a conversation you make derogatory remarks about me for using that press or just make a remark derogatory about the press. Then why would I or anyone want to continue a conversation and be demeaned? I see that same thing carry out in discussions where say Taurus Firearms are brought up. Sometimes it's just best to keep your thoughts or comments to yourself. I try to do that though sometimes it gets hard. I guess it comes down to if you do not respond to help someone with a question no one will ever know. |
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Don't worry about it and don't make rules for yourself. Take each situation on it's own merits. Right and wrong don't always fit in the boxes we build for them. Ask Huckleberry Finn how that worked out for him.
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January 23, 2020, 10:34 AM | #46 | |
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If someone who whines about "assault rifles" and handguns with more than seven rounds as items that should not have constitutional protection, but he is asking about a good choice for a 22lr rifle for he and his boy to share, I'm happy to assist. A person with bad ideas sharing a good experience with his child doesn't diminish anyone's rights. Moreover, a cordial conversation with a person with which one has a basic disagreement can demonstrate to that person that the difference is a principled one, and not personal expression of ill will. A lack of good will can make even simple things difficult.
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Really trite but you DO get more results with honey than vinegar..or just don't participate in discussions that get contentious...I yak with my neighbors all the time..I have no idea of what their 'political' bend is... YMMV, IMHO, and all that.
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Let me drop a bit of a stinger on you guys: I once supported gun control.
My father taught me to shoot and handle guns safely at a very early age. My grandparents taught me the horrors of the Third Reich and the idea that something like that can very well happen again. But it didn't stick. By my teenage years, I was smarter than everyone else, and I ended up going into the music business. Imagine my surprise when I met people even smarter than me. They had all the right slogans and everything. It wasn't until my mid-20's when I left that scene and reconsidered the issue for myself. By that point, I'd seen through some of the intellectual laziness I'd been indulging, and I had a few peers who were patient in convincing me to reconsider. I worry that we don't have that now. The battle lines are drawn, and heaven help anyone who tries to cross them. We prefer zingers and soundbites over nuanced or complex discussions, and it feels more and more like scoring points on social media has replaced respectful discussion. Now, there are people who have spent a great deal of time and capital on restricting our rights. They're in political office and in charge of gun-control organizations. Those guys have heard all our counterarguments and they don't care. What's more, they lie. Those people can't be changed, so we have to rely on sheer political pressure. But the other 99% of the population can. We lose out if we don't engage them.
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Defense: How about I'm minding my own business. I'm not breaking any laws. Why is it you come restricting my right to come and go when the violent crimes are committed elsewhere. What gives you the right to dictate how I am supposed to live minding my own business and not breaking any laws.
You may find there is a real difference with firearms owners who are single issue voters and those who are not. Worth a thought. It has been apparent to me that much of the anti-gun stuff is a way to attack the Base. How much does this anti gun movement have to do with gun violence or is it a passive-aggressive way of attacking the right wing?
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The Gun Control act of 1968 was a major attempt to do that. Or so they claimed. Gun makers even supported the law (I believe because it wasn't clear to them everything it would do. Restrictions on imports (especially handguns) under the buzzwords "Saturday Night Special", ending of direct mail order sale of firearms. Setting national AGE standards for firearm purchase. Creation of the "prohibited person" class for convicted felons. Creation of a required Federal License to deal in firearms, along with record keeping requirements. Even requiring all ammo sales to be logged and recorded (this was later dropped) and some other things I can't recall off the top of my head. Politicians of both parties supported or rejected gun control based on their personal beliefs and those of the people they were pledged to represent. Party affiliation was not a consideration, really. Now skip a lot, jump forward some 40 years and we find ONE political party making gun control one of the planks of their party platform. It became no longer a matter of just Constitutional rights but also a matter or PARTY LOYALTY. Simply put, if you were part of the party, seeking office, and didn't support gun control, the people running the party would see to it that the party didn't support YOU. SO, yes, TODAY it has become a Left/Right issue, because one side CHOSE to make it so. Back in the 19th century one party chose the Jackass as their symbol because in those days it was a symbol of a hard working, dependable beast who could be very stubborn when they thought they were right. Today they still keep that same symbol but it seems other than the stubborn part all it seems to mean is being a JACKASS. Nor has the other side been significantly better, overall, just different in focus, usually. So, yes, part of the issue today is people who accept, adopt and promote gun control as right, because they want to be good party members over being individuals with individual rights, who respect ALL the individual rights of others not just those they personally value. or so it seems to me...
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