Comments on: The Song Remains The Same

By: Jeff Gonzales

Jeff Gonzales — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 01:28:15 +0000

In reply to Foxroe. Thanks for the post and your last line is well stated. Stay safe.

By: Foxroe

Foxroe — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 04:30:16 +0000

Jeff,
To begin with a quote;
“To those who don’t choose their philosophy, one will be given”
Fear sells too much in this culture. Men are not those motivated by fear, but by principle. I resonate with Lt. Col. Grossman’s depiction of the abuse of the word “shooter” in mass murders. I shoot 3gun, so that makes me a shooter, but say that word and mental pictures of tragedies pop up. The lies you speak of are grave, and the media sells on fear. But firearms are also sold when people fear the Government is attempting a new change. We’ve settled down a bit since Sandy Hook, but the conversation cannot go on like this. Gun owners ought not rebuke fear because they carry, but be bold because they have chosen their principles.

By: Jeff Gonzales

Jeff Gonzales — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:57:09 +0000

In reply to Rcraigjohn. I loved hearing it from a legal point of view.

By: Jeff Gonzales

Jeff Gonzales — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:56:29 +0000

In reply to flashback. So true...

By: flashback

flashback — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:54:33 +0000

Sharing the post above…you hit the nail right on the head Jeff!!
I fear that the educational brainwashing that has occurred the last 40-50 years in the so-called education system along with the entitlement mindset may be too difficult to overcome in the short-term but we must fight back…it’s always been a strong minority that does the real fighting!

By: Rcraigjohn

Rcraigjohn — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:40:59 +0000

Spot on, Jeff. As gun users, lots of attention is often focused on the last half of the second amendment, i.e., the right of the people to keep and bear arms. However, there should also be a focus on first half, namely a ‘well regulated militia, being necessary to a free state…’ The anti gunners always point to this as authorizing gun control because of the ‘well-regulated’ phrase. I look at it quite differently. What I see in this is that the government has a duty under the second amendment to foster firearms training for the citizens (who are the militia), to promote gun safety, use of arms, marksmanship, and providing instructors to assist. Liberals imagine a world without guns. I imagine a world where the ordinary citizens, the ‘original first responders’ walk the streets of Chicago well trained, armed and where the crooks and thugs are the ones in fear. Which dream is more realistic? Where the bad guys will always get a gun? Or where ordinary citizens are well trained and armed (if they choose to be), and the bad guys know if they pull a gun it will be met with armed, trained response. The bad guys never can train as efficiently as the ordinary citizen, as they don’t have the patience, focus, or other attributes that good training demands. That is what the 2nd amendment means to me. And that is where the government is failing miserably.