It's all blues aka bubbles talking about stuff that happened as far as 50 years back when NOBODY was allowed to carry and you had to give a little to get a little. Back in the permit for everything days.
Wow. Where to start....Well, let's talk about that time frame you say I've been talking about "as far back as 50 years."
Judging from your posts over the last couple of days, it's hard to imagine that you're more than 13 years old, which I know isn't true, but even if your physical age was consistent with your obvious mental stunted growth, you should still be able to read. I've posted this quote from former NRA Vice President Franklin Orth at least four times in recent days. See if you can pick out the problem with what you assert the time frame that I've been talking about is. I'll give you a little visual aid:
America's largest gun control organization
On Jan. 16, 1968, in an address to the New York State University law school in Buffalo, Sen. Robert Kennedy, D-N.Y., stated: "I think it is a terrible indictment of the National Rifle Association that they haven’t supported any legislation to try and control the misuse of rifles and pistols in this country."
NRA Executive Vice President Franklin L. Orth took great umbrage at this remark in the October 1968 issue of the NRA’s magazine, The American Rifleman, terming Sen. Kennedy’s accusation "a great smear of a great American organization."
Mr. Orth then went on to point out, "The National Rifle Association has been in support of workable, enforceable gun control legislation since its very inception in 1871."
Now let's work this out together, shall we? I'll go slow for the mentally stunted. 2013 - 1871 =
142 YEARS that the NRA has admitted to working for gun control. At the time that Veep Orth proudly made that stunning admission in 1968, the NRA had already been working
for gun control for
97 years.
While you were busy trying to make up your mind what childish name you were going to try to troll me with, you should've actually been reading. You would have saved the embarrassment of making such a complete fool of yourself.
Now, second, please do give us a history lesson that documents your assertion that 50 years ago NOBODY could carry. I had my first CCW in '78 in Washington State, and 15 years before that, there were fewer restrictive gun laws, not more. When I was 15 years old in 1970, growing up in Southern California, me and a 16 year old friend hitch-hiked out to Carbon Canyon in the Mojave Desert over a two week Christmas vacation. We took backpacks and our .22 rifles in soft cases with a couple of boxes each of ammo in our packs, intending to try our hands at hunting, skinning and eating some rabbit while we were staying in my friend's dad's cabin about a 10 mile hike off the highway. We got stopped three times while waiting for a ride on three different freeway on-ramps, not because we had the guns, but because we were obviously underage and the cops just questioned us about whether our folks knew where we were, warned us to be careful, and headed on down the road. All three asked if the weapons were loaded, we answered honestly, "No Sir," but none of them opened the cases to even check if they were or not. Both of our cases were covered in competition decals, because both of us were on the last rifle team that our high school had before CA lost its collective mind and started down the path to extremely restrictive gun control that its citizens live under now, thanks in part to the ineffective, lying, betraying
self-admitted gun control advocates of the NRA!
Probably anyone who is 50 years or older on this site could relate stories of guns being less regulated when you claim it was, "Back in the permit for everything days." I hope some will, but whether they do or they don't, everyone my age or older knows how full to your eyeballs of crap you are. You don't have a freakin' clue what you're talking about.
Times have changed, and so has the NRA. It's called political strategy
Finally! You got something right! Well, half right. The NRA hasn't changed, they're still the same ol' gun control advocacy group that they have been
since its very inception in 1871, but you're absolutely correct that they play politics with our God-given, unalienable,
natural rights. I seriously doubt that you even understand the distinction that I'm attempting to draw your attention to. To you, it's a good thing that there's a lobby group out there ready and willing to use your God-given rights as political bargaining chips. To me, bargaining with any part of my
unalienable rights is, in and of itself,
infringing on my not-so-unalienable-after-all rights.
...and we, the NRA have had some good ones [political strategies?] because constitutional carry exists again!
Have you
ever done a search on
anything that you pull out of thin air to see if it's true or not? Like, did we maybe have constitutional carry back when the NRA had a voice at the UN? Good grief, you must have to work at being so clueless.
Constitutional carry has existed throughout the entire history of the United States. It exists today, it existed during whatever period you're fantasizing that you "know" it didn't, and it existed all the way back to the first second of the first minute of the first hour after the US became a country, with no breaks whatsoever in the Constitution-compliant protocol's "existence." Vermont has
never had a permission-slip system since they became the 14th state in 1791. For the previous four years since the Constitution had been ratified and we became the United States of America, all 13 of the original states had constitutional carry (duh!), so at no time has it ever
not "existed" in this country.
If the NRA were all it's cracked up to be,
every state would enjoy constitutional carry, but not only can they not accomplish that, they wouldn't if they could, because it would put them right out of business. There's tons of money in using your rights as bargaining chips, and they will do just enough to convince the easily-led that they're actually defending rights, when in reality, they're just
marketing your rights (that you already possess) back to you. It's a pure genius marketing plan. Purely dishonest too. A pure betrayal of what they make you believe through false advertising that you're paying for.
What we sacrificed then for a short period has been regained tenfold. We are now an armed people.
"We" sacrificed constitutional carry for a short period, did we? And the NRA did that, did they? Who is the NRA, or the "we" you align yourself with, to sacrifice
any right of mine that God gave me for simply being alive?
And since the NRA, or your mythical "we," never sacrificed the existence of constitutional carry in this country, for a short period or otherwise, then your calculation of what you "regained" may be right on the money at tenfold. Ten times nothin' equals nothin', and that's exactly what you get from the NRA. Well, except a real neato magazine with lots of pretty pictures on glossy paper and a cute little circular sticker to put on your car so everyone will know you're "doing something." Pffft. More nothin'.
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