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What I feel about this group is the same as I feel about most it is just another form of Self Segregation. Instead of finding common ground we separate ourselves from what we do not like and huddle in groups that make us feel safe.
We as humans all tend to do it to some degree and that is why we play on this forum as we like firearms, how they work, and the right to have and keep them.
But even the folks here tend to separate themselves depending on the subject and move into the different camps that align with what they feel or believe. This does not make them wrong or right just different.
I am of the mind that adding another law no matter what type will not stop gun crime or gun deaths and it is no longer a feel good measure it is now just control. Yet others feel if we just do this one more thing all will be well and everything will be Kumbaya. It is an American culture problem not a gun problem.
Murder is already illegal and has been for thousands of years yet they happen every day in every country by a verity of methods and not just firearms. School shootings are not new as the first I can find that was reported in the US happened around 1764 and yet it was illegal then and it still is so one more law will not change a dang thing.
Over the last 40 Plus years (that I have been into guns) of so call compromise it has just been a take my rights away with nothing in return and so far to date they have not stopped school shootings or murder.
Some will say well they let the assault weapons ban expire yet most who were not into guns back then do not realize you could still buy AR15s and Russian AKs the whole time it's just they were not threaded for a flash suppressor, the bayonet lug was cut off and they came with a 10 round mag. I know I sold them at the shop I worked at and bought a few.
So if this is a compromise to you by getting back something we already had then we have already lost the fight.
Sorry for the rant but I am not politically correct and do not want to be. I do believe in the constitution and feel the government is overstepping its boundaries on almost everything it does. I also believe in order to keep what we have as a country and the constitution the second amendment is more important now than it ever has been.
Edit: spelling
We as humans all tend to do it to some degree and that is why we play on this forum as we like firearms, how they work, and the right to have and keep them.
But even the folks here tend to separate themselves depending on the subject and move into the different camps that align with what they feel or believe. This does not make them wrong or right just different.
I am of the mind that adding another law no matter what type will not stop gun crime or gun deaths and it is no longer a feel good measure it is now just control. Yet others feel if we just do this one more thing all will be well and everything will be Kumbaya. It is an American culture problem not a gun problem.
Murder is already illegal and has been for thousands of years yet they happen every day in every country by a verity of methods and not just firearms. School shootings are not new as the first I can find that was reported in the US happened around 1764 and yet it was illegal then and it still is so one more law will not change a dang thing.
Over the last 40 Plus years (that I have been into guns) of so call compromise it has just been a take my rights away with nothing in return and so far to date they have not stopped school shootings or murder.
Some will say well they let the assault weapons ban expire yet most who were not into guns back then do not realize you could still buy AR15s and Russian AKs the whole time it's just they were not threaded for a flash suppressor, the bayonet lug was cut off and they came with a 10 round mag. I know I sold them at the shop I worked at and bought a few.
So if this is a compromise to you by getting back something we already had then we have already lost the fight.
Sorry for the rant but I am not politically correct and do not want to be. I do believe in the constitution and feel the government is overstepping its boundaries on almost everything it does. I also believe in order to keep what we have as a country and the constitution the second amendment is more important now than it ever has been.
Edit: spelling
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