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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Ksail101 on July 04, 2009, 11:54:13 PM
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I have read several places who state that this 4th of July is that of Gloom. I cant speak against this, for those around me and those who I speak to on breaks at work, feel let down and at an all time low from\by this knew government. Many things point out the fact that Americans are scared. The amount of ammo and guns being bought for one. Do people believe that one day soon they may have to defend themselves and loved ones from something so ferocious that a bullet must stop it? Or has the threat of some sort of disaster become so evident that the local supermarket know must carry survival\disaster supplies?
Those that believed they were electing the Messiah are slowly declining, but there are still a great many who rally on this campaign. When will this division create union. When will we realize together we can get done more than than standing alone complaining. Still I feel people are afraid to speak out for what they love and what they want. If it is guns you love and carry, then tell your neighbor. Cause it will never make the forefront with us few talking on the range about our passion. If you enjoy your freedom of speech, or your religion than tell your friend that your are going to church and he\she should come with you. We are being labeled as terrorists in a land we created, or should I say our grandparents created. Clinging to Guns and Religion should be celebrated not shunned. Cause if not for those two I believe would already be socialized or worse.
I hear these fireworks and it takes me back to what they mimic. Seeing the the red tracers of every three rounds, seeing the hot metal from a blast as sparks fly through the sky, the whistle of a mortar round coming in. I think of what it must have been like at Valley Forge and what was going through the hearts and minds of those men who decided to fight for what they new was right. How long must we sit and watch what we know is wrong? I do not know, but I will be the first on my block to help regain what is right if that is must come. I hope not. I hope great men will stand up and win with their minds over having to subject civilians to the harshness of war. I want America, I dont want a country like (fill in the blank). I want to be different. I want to be able to go to the same doctor as the president if I should so choose. I want to wear what Kings wears if I feel like it. Or I want to sit with the people whom I love, hearing God's word come from a thousand year old book.
God Bless and Goodnight, I once said I would miss my president saying this and now I do, more than ever.
Just wanted to add that I am all about having guns for self-defense, and you and I all know that it is the right thing to do. But there are alot of people rushing to buy guns cause they fear what is going to happen on a macro scale in the near future. That is all I mean by having to defend themselves with a bullet. I am a 100% gun guy so dont take that as I am at all looking down at having to defend ones self with a gun. I wish more people were trained and carry firearms. I think crime would go down.
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I have read several places who state that this 4th of July is that of Gloom. I cant speak against this, for those around me and those who I speak to on breaks at work, feel let down and at an all time low from\by this knew government. Many things point out the fact that Americans are scared. The amount of ammo and guns being bought for one. Do people believe that one day soon they may have to defend themselves and loved ones from something so ferocious that a bullet must stop it? Or has the threat of some sort of disaster become so evident that the local supermarket know must carry survival\disaster supplies?
Those that believed they were electing the Messiah are slowly declining, but there are still a great many who rally on this campaign. When will this division create union. When will we realize together we can get done more than than standing alone complaining. Still I feel people are afraid to speak out for what they love and what they want. If it is guns you love and carry, then tell your neighbor. Cause it will never make the forefront with us few talking on the range about our passion. If you enjoy your freedom of speech, or your religion than tell your friend that your are going to church and he\she should come with you. We are being labeled as terrorists in a land we created, or should I say our grandparents created. Clinging to Guns and Religion should be celebrated not shunned. Cause if not for those two I believe would already be socialized or worse.
I hear these fireworks and it takes me back to what they mimic. Seeing the the red tracers of every three rounds, seeing the hot metal from a blast as sparks fly through the sky, the whistle of a mortar round coming in. I think of what it must have been like at Valley Forge and what was going through the hearts and minds of those men who decided to fight for what they new was right. How long must we sit and watch what we know is wrong? I do not know, but I will be the first on my block to help regain what is right if that is must come. I hope not. I hope great men will stand up and win with their minds over having to subject civilians to the harshness of war. I want America, I dont want a country like (fill in the blank). I want to be different. I want to be able to go to the same doctor as the president if I should so choose. I want to wear what Kings wears if I feel like it. Or I want to sit with the people whom I love, hearing God's word come from a thousand year old book.
God Bless and Goodnight, I once said I would miss my president saying this and now I do, more than ever.
I think the answer to that is all of the above, people realize that "sh!t happens" and that in many types of bad situations having a gun is better than not having one, whether it is to defend yourself and loved ones, you beliefs and way of life or simply to shoot squirrels for the pot.
About the memories, remember that fireworks were in use for celebrating happy events long before the invention of tracer.
As to the Country, I'm afraid to many people put self interest before the good of the Community or the nation.