Everyone-
I can't get behind the personal attacks and I do wish they would stop.
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I understand there are a lot of details that have to be worked out for the lawsuit against OSU to proceed and succeed, and I have never taken a "hurry up and file it" stance.
What I
have done is disagree with Dynamike's belief that any open carry on campus would hurt his cause.
Because of MY belief that open carry, properly introduced on a campus, would be a good thing, I have been called everything from unreasonable and ignorant, to being accused, by the president of Ohioans for Concealed Carry, of having a mental disorder.
Nice.
These are the tactics I would normally face from a group of liberal, anti-gun protestors. To see this approach being used by the pro-gun side...saddens me.
You've probably heard of "projection". This is a mental act of denying an impulse YOU may have and "projecting" that impulse onto another person. This is why anti-gunners believe WE will be shooting everyone if we have guns. They are simply denying that's what THEY might do.
I think we also have to consider "transference", a rough example of which is here:
MyWifeSaidYes: I did not organize either of these walks. I was invited and accepted.
Dynamike: You may not have organized, but you're nonetheless at fault.
MyWifeSaidYes: <after a few moments of stunned silence> Okey-Dokey.
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The worst thing I have ever said about Jeff Garvas, OFCC president, was that he wasn't leading his organization, and I told him that in a personal email.
When he had an issue with me? I get called out and questioned openly in a group forum, once at the annual meeting (complete with powerpoint slides)(yes, slide
S...plural) and once in a group email.
He probably didn't like the fact that I chose not to answer that last email, but I didn't feel that was an appropriate way to question my "loyalty" to OFCC (his words).
Loyalty?
My loyalty has ALWAYS been to the PEOPLE that make up a group, not the group itself. AND IT ALWAYS WILL !!
Once you think your GROUP is more important than the people IN the group, your group loses it's value. This is happening to Mike as head of the Ohio chapter of SCCC, to OFCC and even the United States. The "leaders" seem to believe "This is MY group and the people shall do as I say !!"
In a group, the people have far more power.
But, all of these guys have to remember, without the PEOPLE, you don't have a group.
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I am NOT a religious person, but that does NOT mean I don't have faith. My faith is placed in the common person. Sometimes that faith fails me but those times are EXCEEDINGLY rare.
I find that most people are good, understanding and open to hearing new information...younger people even more so.
So, when the leader of the state's premier gun rights group (Jeff at OFCC) says this about me and my faith in the average person...
Jeff Garvas: You give the random non-gun owner way too much credit and that is your biggest leap of ignorance.
I again did not respond. In this case, I simply don't know HOW to respond.
Jeff's experiences have colored his opinions, as have mine. We have had different experiences and therefore different opinions. That's normal.
How can I respond in any way that changes an opinion formed by actual experiences? I can't. Different experiences = differing opinions.
I just don't need to resort to name-calling and personal attacks when I don't get my way.
I don't
think those are things that a good Christian or Jew would do, but like I said, I'm not religious.
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I hope everybody had a great weekend. I sure did.