MichaelWDean
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(I started this as a reply on another thread, but thought it was good to break it off and not hijack.)
Alexcabbie wrote:
My sister is a leftist pacifist vegan. Her 15-year-old-son is starting to be a regular boy, athletic, getting in fights, not obeying her all the time, and it's driving her nuts.
It's sad the way young men (and women) are treated today. I think that insulating everyone from any conflict, and nannying them by state mandate, will create more people who will go up on the clocktower and shoot everyone when their internal damn finally breaks. (Or they'll go into politics and ruin and kill people in other ways.)
They also now teach in schools the B.S. that "anyone can be anything if they follow their dreams." This is a lie. You can't be anything by simply "beveling in yourself" and "following your heart." At least not without work, drive and skill. Simply put: schools no longer teach that you have to work.
Life is not AYSO soccer.
I'm a sensitive guy. I can cry. I prefer peace in my life to war. I avoid unneeded conflict when I can.
But I can deal with the world on its own terms. I can balance a checkbook (they don't teach that in school any more, nor do they teach The US Constitution). I support myself and don't want the government to do it for me. And I will walk up to a neighbor twice my size (without a gun on my hip) and tell him, in a calm, confident BUT NOT COCKY way, "I need you to turn down your stereo after 10 PM." And it works.
Products of today's public schools usually can't do any of that. And they'd call the cops or write a snitty letter to the HOA or local paper about the loud neighbor.
I was a varsity wrestler in high school. I got my nose bloodied in a few fist fights in the halls, and didn't run to the principal. Years later, I have had a knife held to my throat in Manhattan and didn't require years of therapy to overcome it.
I was born in 1964. I'm 45 years old. I was in the last generation that was taught any kind of tough and "do it yourself" in school. About the time I graduated was about the time they started covering the world in bubble wrap (figuratively and literally), and the world has gone down the toilet since.
I'm sad with the thought of where the world is headed. I feel for anyone who is 20 now, and will be alive much longer than I will.
Kudos to any young men (and women) on here who learn how the world works on their own and turn out alright. It's damn tough.
Owning, carrying, studying and using guns can help. Not just with self-defense and confidence, but with understanding the true nature of liberty.
But you have to own them with respect, and own them with a conscience, for them to help you. You have to understand and accept responsibility. And once you understand this, you have to take time to pass this info and skill on to others.
Unless you're part of the small but dangerous percentage of the world who are truly sociopathic (broken moral compass), you have liberty in your heart. You were born with it. It was always in you, you just need to "take it to the gym" every day and make it stronger.
Part of this "gym" comes from education (like the links in the next post), part of it is open carry, and part of it is continuously improving it in yourself in every way, and passing on what you know.
I'm not perfect, far from it. But I feel that for the first time in my life, I'm on a right path. And guns have helped.
One place I'll agree with the leftists is that "It's not the destination, it's the journey." But I say it like this:
Life is a moving target.
MWD
(I started this as a reply on another thread, but thought it was good to break it off and not hijack.)
Alexcabbie wrote:
So true!... Much of the hardcore Anti agenda is aimed at sissifying our young males to "break the cycle of violence". ....
My sister is a leftist pacifist vegan. Her 15-year-old-son is starting to be a regular boy, athletic, getting in fights, not obeying her all the time, and it's driving her nuts.
It's sad the way young men (and women) are treated today. I think that insulating everyone from any conflict, and nannying them by state mandate, will create more people who will go up on the clocktower and shoot everyone when their internal damn finally breaks. (Or they'll go into politics and ruin and kill people in other ways.)
They also now teach in schools the B.S. that "anyone can be anything if they follow their dreams." This is a lie. You can't be anything by simply "beveling in yourself" and "following your heart." At least not without work, drive and skill. Simply put: schools no longer teach that you have to work.
Life is not AYSO soccer.
I'm a sensitive guy. I can cry. I prefer peace in my life to war. I avoid unneeded conflict when I can.
But I can deal with the world on its own terms. I can balance a checkbook (they don't teach that in school any more, nor do they teach The US Constitution). I support myself and don't want the government to do it for me. And I will walk up to a neighbor twice my size (without a gun on my hip) and tell him, in a calm, confident BUT NOT COCKY way, "I need you to turn down your stereo after 10 PM." And it works.
Products of today's public schools usually can't do any of that. And they'd call the cops or write a snitty letter to the HOA or local paper about the loud neighbor.
I was a varsity wrestler in high school. I got my nose bloodied in a few fist fights in the halls, and didn't run to the principal. Years later, I have had a knife held to my throat in Manhattan and didn't require years of therapy to overcome it.
I was born in 1964. I'm 45 years old. I was in the last generation that was taught any kind of tough and "do it yourself" in school. About the time I graduated was about the time they started covering the world in bubble wrap (figuratively and literally), and the world has gone down the toilet since.
I'm sad with the thought of where the world is headed. I feel for anyone who is 20 now, and will be alive much longer than I will.
Kudos to any young men (and women) on here who learn how the world works on their own and turn out alright. It's damn tough.
Owning, carrying, studying and using guns can help. Not just with self-defense and confidence, but with understanding the true nature of liberty.
But you have to own them with respect, and own them with a conscience, for them to help you. You have to understand and accept responsibility. And once you understand this, you have to take time to pass this info and skill on to others.
Unless you're part of the small but dangerous percentage of the world who are truly sociopathic (broken moral compass), you have liberty in your heart. You were born with it. It was always in you, you just need to "take it to the gym" every day and make it stronger.
Part of this "gym" comes from education (like the links in the next post), part of it is open carry, and part of it is continuously improving it in yourself in every way, and passing on what you know.
I'm not perfect, far from it. But I feel that for the first time in my life, I'm on a right path. And guns have helped.
One place I'll agree with the leftists is that "It's not the destination, it's the journey." But I say it like this:
Life is a moving target.
MWD