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I’ve got about $230 left before I’m an NRA Lifer, gave them an extra $50 today also.

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I am happy to say that the relentless media attacks on "traditional Americana" (to coin a phrase) has had one positive effect in my life. It prompted my wife to finally join the NRA! I have been a member since long before we met, and in our early years together she was as anti as anyone ignorant of firearms. Get a clue media! For every push, there will always be a push back.


I'm thinking it may be time to upgrade my membership.


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I am happy to say that the relentless media attacks on "traditional Americana" (to coin a phrase) has had one positive effect in my life. It prompted my wife to finally join the NRA! I have been a member since long before we met, and in our early years together she was as anti as anyone ignorant of firearms. Get a clue media! For every push, there will always be a push back.


I'm thinking it may be time to upgrade my membership.

I upgraded a few weeks ago to Life-Benefactor Level. NRA is not a perfect organization, but I choose to support it. I understand why others prefer to not support it, and respect their stance.


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Wise words from Mike Rowe via the Daily Wire




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Mike Rowe hits it out of the park again.

I was going to post what Maxine "If I was any dumber you'd have to water me twice a week" Waters just said on social media, but that vile harridan does not deserve to have her idiotic propaganda repeated.


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And I've got some work to do at home. My daughter came home today and asked if she could be part of the school walkout on March 14th to demand stricter gun control. I had a one word answer.

No.

I tried to engage her on the subject. It was mostly touchy feely stuff, "No one needs a 30 round magazine." "No one needs a military style rifle." She didn't have an answer when I asked her if she was talking about the AR-15's and M-1A's that I own that she's had practice with.




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And I've got some work to do at home. My daughter came home today and asked if she could be part of the school walkout on March 14th to demand stricter gun control. I had a one word answer.

No.

I tried to engage her on the subject. It was mostly touchy feely stuff, "No one needs a 30 round magazine." "No one needs a military style rifle." She didn't have an answer when I asked her if she was talking about the AR-15's and M-1A's that I own that she's had practice with.



Good for you Dad!


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And I've got some work to do at home. My daughter came home today and asked if she could be part of the school walkout on March 14th to demand stricter gun control. I had a one word answer.

No.

I tried to engage her on the subject. It was mostly touchy feely stuff, "No one needs a 30 round magazine." "No one needs a military style rifle." She didn't have an answer when I asked her if she was talking about the AR-15's and M-1A's that I own that she's had practice with.


We all know rights are not about needs. Engage her on it. She may not get it know as an unformed, half-grown person reacting more to emotion than to thought. But give her the tools she needs to have a more thought-out position later, when she is an adult. Don't abandon her to the lefties.




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It was mostly touchy feely stuff, "No one needs a 30 round magazine." "No one needs a military style rifle." She didn't have an answer when I asked her if she was talking about the AR-15's and M-1A's that I own that she's had practice with.


No one needs a bow and arrow either.

It's easy to give away other people's stuff.

Our rights don't exist because other people figure that we need them.
 
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Tell her no child "needs" a smart phone, either.

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And I've got some work to do at home. My daughter came home today and asked if she could be part of the school walkout on March 14th to demand stricter gun control. I had a one word answer.

No.

I tried to engage her on the subject. It was mostly touchy feely stuff, "No one needs a 30 round magazine." "No one needs a military style rifle." She didn't have an answer when I asked her if she was talking about the AR-15's and M-1A's that I own that she's had practice with.


That’s what happens in the public school system, they inculcate the younguns with socialist doctrines—get ‘em indoctrinated while they’re young and you’ll own for their lifetime.


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And I've got some work to do at home. My daughter came home today and asked if she could be part of the school walkout on March 14th to demand stricter gun control. I had a one word answer.

No.

I tried to engage her on the subject. It was mostly touchy feely stuff, "No one needs a 30 round magazine." "No one needs a military style rifle." She didn't have an answer when I asked her if she was talking about the AR-15's and M-1A's that I own that she's had practice with.


It is good that she is a sensitive soul and has empathy for others. Now she needs to learn to apply logic and consider that while empathy is a good thing, rushing to “do something” out of emotion rarely achieves a desired result. Ask her to consider if her best performance comes when she is emotional or when she is just zoning out and shooting her arrows.

Ask her to consider how much damage someone with her skill level could do with a bow. Does this mean we should outlaw bows? Any argument against the need for a gun would only be stronger when used against a bow. Nobody needs them. Thank goodness we live in a free county where need has nothing to do with it.

Have her watch the Kentucky governor clip that Jerry posted. Have her read the post about “join me in banning smartphones.”

It isn’t the tool, it is the person using the tool. Until we stop blaming inanimate objects and start holding people responsible for their actions, things will only get worse. Psychotropic drugs, violent TV, music, and video games are all more responsible than guns are, but the biggest problem is cultural decay and lack of responsibility.
 
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It looked to me like the gun grabbers struck pretty fast, and got a number of kids cleaned up, memorized their talking points and booked on the cable news feeds right away.

You might have seen this generations John Kerry here.




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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It looked to me like the gun grabbers struck pretty fast, and got a number of kids cleaned up, memorized their talking points and booked on the cable news feeds right away.


Now we've got 15 year olds telling us what we need to do.


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My governor.

Damn! Can we have one like that? Clear, concise, intelligent, and sane. How did he ever make it into politics?


"Get a new idea." I love this quote.


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It looked to me like the gun grabbers struck pretty fast, and got a number of kids cleaned up, memorized their talking points and booked on the cable news feeds right away.

You might have seen this generations John Kerry here.


Fox Business tonight showed it's not the gun grabbers as much as it is Russian false flag posts on FB, Twitter and YouTube designed to exploit the divisions within the country.


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No one needs a bow and arrow either.



Expecially those military assault-style bows with pulleys, balance rods, and fancy paint schemes. Those are meant to scare people into a corner and kill them rapidly with quick reload times and high accuracy from those bump-stock like drawstring release mechanisms. No one needs quivers with more than two arrows. No one needs metal or carbon fiber shaft arrows with pointed tips. Those are for killing. Children under 20 should not be handling these machines of murder nor be practicing with them for sport. That hobby kills.

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CT Dem Rep. Himes: Nobody Wants To Take Away Guns, We Just Want To Be Like Australia, Canada & Great Britain


Fuck that shit. I don't want to be like Australia, Canada & Great Britain.


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Dear School Administrators: Are your Schools Safer Today?

Having spent about eighteen years in school buildings as a student and twenty-nine years in school buildings as an unarmed teacher, fifteen of them post-Columbine, I think I have a right to voice an opinion on this matter. I'm pretty proficient with firearms, yet I faced each day of teaching knowing that I could easily be shot down right along with my students!

So, school administrators, board members, parents, and anybody else responsible for the kids in your community, is your school safer this week? If it is, great work. Thanks for getting at this important task. If not, WHY not! Are you not angry enough yet? I am angry, and I don’t blame students around the country for being angry. Why would they NOT be angry; they are at risk, and nobody seems interested in actually fixing the problem. And I can’t blame an immature sixteen-year-old for placing all the blame on guns; there are plenty of adults who can’t get past that false notion themselves.

I want to know - are you one of the many school administrators just sitting around this week philosophizing and pontificating over coffee about gun control fantasies and improvements needed in the mental healthcare system? Meanwhile, hundreds of unprotected, innocent young people are streaming into your buildings every morning. Since you’ve probably devoted much of your life to obtaining multiple degrees, you are likely well prepared to be a very confident and polished speaker when the national news stations stick their microphones in your face. But if tragedy strikes YOUR school system next week, next month, next year, tomorrow, are you prepared to sacrifice the lives of your students, all the while knowing that there were some pretty effective preventative measures that could have been taken.

I have a shocking newsflash for you, the 2nd Amendment is not going anywhere, and the mental healthcare system and better background checks are not going to be fixed by next Thursday. How about you do what you can NOW! Just consider me naïve, but I think it’s absolutely stunning that every school system in the country has not scoured its budget this week and trimmed some fat, “fat” that could hire some armed security for their campuses, maybe some stronger doors and windows at access points, along with other forms of real security. And if you think youngsters are going to be traumatized by armed guards, they’ll do just fine. REAL trauma is when somebody is terrorizing them with a bomb or a gun.

I like to think if I were in your position that I would already have been meeting with board members, county commissioners, the mayor, the governor, number crunchers in the systems, teachers, building administrators, etc. on an urgent mission to get my buildings and campus as secure as possible RIGHT NOW! Kids’ lives depend on it. Local police departments, along with parents, reserve deputies, and volunteer veterans, could have a serious impact on your security right now, tomorrow morning, when those precious kids get off the bus or drive into the student parking lot.

As left wing politicians have meetings and strategize how they can use these tragic events to promote their gun control agenda, there are very disturbed individuals out there amongst us right now looking for violent ways to “get even” with the world and be the dominate topic on CNN and Fox News for the next two weeks. Why this is not being addressed in every single school building in the country this week in very practical fashion is just beyond me. We can fret and fight over “gun control” NEXT WEEK. We can work on improving the mental healthcare system NEXT WEEK. We can work on making sure serious mental health history shows up on background checks NEXT WEEK. THIS WEEK is when our kids are sitting ducks in all your “gun free zones” that are “gun free” only until somebody with evil intent shows up with one.

As someone in the news stated this week, “The next school shooter is out there, and he probably has a gun,” which would create a sense of urgency in MY mind if I were at ANY level of responsibility in any school system. And, of course, the threat might not even be a severely disturbed teenager; it might just be a hate-crazed religious fanatic from across the globe with an AK47, or a truck, or a bomb.

How about we get the school buildings and our kids protected NOW!

Sincerely,

Hickok45


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NBC News was all over this and not letting it go. They even showed a video of a new movement called #oneless where 'responsible gun owners' are so afraid of their AR-15's and them falling into the wrong hands and murdering hundreds that they are cutting them in half and posting videos.

I'd like to know what or who is behind this. I can't think of ANYONE who would take a $6-800 investment and destroy it because they are afraid someone will take it and commit mass murder. What is this fakery that they are ramming down America's throat now.

If found it equally odd that they followed that story with one about the Russians posting fake videos after the shooting trying to hype people up and divide the country. Media... please. #hypocrisy




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People feel the need to express ever greater outrage with each mass shooting. Eventually, they will have nowhere to go, speaking figuratively. They will have to stand in the middle of the road, screaming at the sky and tearing out their hair. They will convulse and drool upon themselves, wild-eyed, waiting for the strait jacket.

And none of it will make one bit of difference. Again, even if they did identify the real problem, the problem is so vast and complex and interwoven into modern society that it is unfixable.

And you know that these shootings will continue. My advice is to steel yourselves and know when to turn off the news. We are witnessing society as a mob- humanity at its worst.
 
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