Ya just don't get it. Fine, you will die in your bunker. Statistically, no one will care. But you will have a gun in your hand. Bravo.
Assuming this is directed to me in reply to the questions I asked of someone else directly preceding it, first, I don't live in (or even have) a bunker. I open carry every day. I live in the Huntsville, AL area. Not a large town, I guess "medium" about covers it. There is little crime, but it happens every day and some of it is violent. I believe my OC'ed weapon deters criminals from choosing me as a victim. That's the totality of my rationale for OC'ing. I don't take into consideration whether or not the reason criminals don't choose me as their victim is because they're scared. If they are, good, desired effect obtained. If other law-abiding citizens are scared of me, I wish that wouldn't be true because they have absolutely nothing to fear from me, but I really don't care. I'm not trying to convince anyone about what my rights are, I'm exercising the rights I already have simply by virtue of being born, just as you just did by typing a bunch of psycho-babble trying to convince me to acquiesce my rights to panty-waists like you who have acquiesced them to the propaganda campaign of Bloomberg's Mommies. Bravo indeed.
Get off the "what will I do tomorrow to terrify the antis" attitude to how will I rationally generate a sustainable education, word of mouth, and political campaign to convince them they have their heads up their ass.
Great strategy. Convince anti-gunners that they have their heads up their asses by acquiescing to all their demands that we hide our rights. Cognitive dissonance much?
We need to deal with the antis in ways they will understand and that can potentially change their minds. This crap of showing up with lots of guns is not it!
You can't decide if you're talking about the TX demonstrations by Open Carry Texas, or all OC'ers in general anywhere and everywhere. You opened this thread by saying,
"I expressed my concerns of this approach before. Only to have a new anal orifice suggested." That is total BS. When you "suggested" anything before, among other
glittering jewels of monumental ignorance, you said,
"My opinion: open carry does more to hurt the cause of protecting and enforcing 2A than just about anything else we could do." That is what prompted any responses critical of your stated position(s), and no one said anything about any orifice of yours or anyone else's.
Otherwise,
in my reply, I acknowledged that one of the guys in the picture that got all of this started made a mistake by having his hands on his weapon and holding it in the low-ready position. But other than that, no one was doing anything wrong or scary or pushy or whatever other behavior you fantasize justifies your hateful rants of free people exercising their freedoms in front of God and everybody.
But let's look at your "suggestion" again, shall we? You said:
"My opinion: open carry does more to hurt the cause of protecting and enforcing 2A than just about anything else we could do."
This is truly the most brainless thing I've ever seen anyone say on the subject of OC. In many, if not most states, that either allow OC by statute, or don't disallow it, thus making it perfectly legal, OC does not require a license or permit. The full, unabridged
right of The People to keep and
bear arms is
fully protected
and enforced in those jurisdictions. Mine is one such jurisdiction. How could I conceivably be "hurting the cause of protecting and enforcing the 2A" by OC'ing in a state that protects and enforces my full right to do so without having to do so much as ask permission?
All your psycho-babble be damned. If you live in a state where your actual rights are so fragile and threatened that you are constantly on a P.R. campaign to justify the exercise of them,
you have failed in
your duty to assert
your rights to
your government. I am not failing you or any other gun owner by first, convincing my state to clarify its laws on OC so that I can engage in it without fear of government intrusion and, second, engaging in it without fear of government intrusion!
I, as a regular OC'er, am not the problem. Serfs who are too afraid to demand their rights be protected and enforced on The People's behalf, just exactly as the Constitution is written,
are the problem.
It is clearly
you who doesn't get it. Take your psycho-babble and stick it where the sun don't shine.
Open carry in densely populated areas is just stupid. Just because it is your "right" to set fires does not mean you should go around setting them in public places, crowded theaters, assorted stores, restaurants, coffee shops, etc.
Where in the Constitution is this "right" to set fires in public articulated? Good grief, there's more brain-dead fire-setting in this one post that I'm replying to than all the OC'ers in the great,
free state of Alabama have ever set!
B u l l s h i t. You support asking permission to
conceal your utilization of the 2A, which in and of itself, asking permission, is a requirement that
violates it!
Get you head out of your ass. Supporting the Second Amendment (and a whole bunch of other founding document contents) is a public relations issue. We are right, but we are a minority in some significant areas. There are way more than enough non-supporters to attack the 2A (and other fundamental constitutional rights, defended by us actively or through inaction).
How does one go about "defending" something
through inaction? More brainless blather.
Yelling at them and calling them names decreases their numbers by ZERO (probably -zero), and reduces the effectiveness of our utterances. This whole thing is a function of the hearts and minds of the voting population: not our raving and ranting. Votes, in one form or another, are the only things that count. A vote can be bought (gee, really!?) or earned by rational discourse.
OK, I can accept this, which is why I voted you an Honorary Mommie. I'm starting to think you're lobbying for a full membership though.
We must move the values of the unenlightened (though perhaps brainwashed by the media and assorted big money efforts) citizens. If we can not generate a majority of the popular vote; we are doomed. The popular vote determines how things are going to work. Rational/irrational, informed/uninformed, lied to/the truth explained. It does not matter who is right. Only who has the most popular support. Understand it. Deal with it rationally. Change the public opinion. The public will or will not support the actions of the government (and people with vast sources of money and control of mass media) and the political agendas they are trying to impose on the population.
Stop aggravating the brain washed people we need on our side. It is not enhancing our position or protecting our constitutional rights. Only the "majority" can do that! Annoying the masses and attacking anyone not taking your approach is not going to get us where we need to be. We need an image of Boy (Girl) Scouts; not KKK and isolated groups of fanatics. Yelling won't do it. And we spend some of our efforts arguing internally about open vs concealed carry. The citizens are addressing if we should have guns; not how to carry them. We need to get our crap together and form a united front/image. A meaningful attempt to expose citizens to our constitutional concepts and hobbies. Sort of like the NRA should be doing.
Umm.....Simply carrying a weapon out in the open equals "attacking" those who don't agree with it? You tell me and others to "get your head out of your ass" and me exercising my rights out in the open is an "attack?" You equate open carry with KKK membership, and
we're the ones on the "attack?" You talk about our rights being subject to majority vote, and
we're "attacking" the 2A simply by abiding by its precepts?
OK alternety, full membership it is then. You've exceeded the requirements for honorary membership in the Mommies, and gone on a full-fledged dishonest, hyperbolic, offensive and rights-denying propaganda campaign against OC'ers. And you have the unmitigated gall to call what we do an "attack" on
anything. Consider yourself exposed - you are a full-fledged shill for Bloomberg and the Mommies, and now everyone with an ounce of intellectual honesty knows it.
Blues
