grumpycoconut
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Picturethis:
Open carriers go strapped into the wide world and cops and scaredy cats everywhere immediately recognize that this is legal and socially acceptable. Guns show up on everyone's hips and the world keeps spinning happily and politely on its axis.
A tired black woman sits in the front of a southern bus and everyone realizes that she's tired and leaves her alone. Folks of all shades start sharing lunch counters, public schools and swimming pools like its always been that way.
A Catholic priest nails a list ofthings he sees wrong with the admin at his work placeon the door of a German church. Rome says, "You know what? That guy's got a few good points there. Let's make us some changes." Hundreds of years of various warsoverthe color of a priest's knickers and wheter or not you have a dead jewish rable rouser up on your cross still happen but for different, maybe more rational reasons.
A Jewish carpenter starts telling folks to be nice to one another and that the temple ain't the right place to be transacting business. The boss Rabbis think to themselves, "Wow, I never looked at it that way. I like the way he's thinking. Let's buy this guy some lunch and have us a good ol' chat". 2000 years of history have a slightly different flavor.
I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that if you are ballsy enough to strap up and face down the man, you stand a slight chance of modern martyrdom. Expecting instant changeis about as rational and realistic as expecting politicians to work soley in the best interests of their consituents and the greater society around them.
Those of you who go forth with a song in your hearts, a smile on your lips and a bag full of civility backed up by a correct and thorough understanding of the law deserve nothing but respect. Those of you who insist on screaming bloody lawsuit and "fire all cops" everytime things don't go just the way you think they should need to bone up on your history, phychology and sociology and understand that this is a long game being played here and the fat lady ain't even close to warming up for her solo yet.
I've just gotten my nomex boxer shorts back from the cleaners soflame onbrothers.
*Hyperbole is not a bigger better version of the Super Bowl.
Picturethis:
Open carriers go strapped into the wide world and cops and scaredy cats everywhere immediately recognize that this is legal and socially acceptable. Guns show up on everyone's hips and the world keeps spinning happily and politely on its axis.
A tired black woman sits in the front of a southern bus and everyone realizes that she's tired and leaves her alone. Folks of all shades start sharing lunch counters, public schools and swimming pools like its always been that way.
A Catholic priest nails a list ofthings he sees wrong with the admin at his work placeon the door of a German church. Rome says, "You know what? That guy's got a few good points there. Let's make us some changes." Hundreds of years of various warsoverthe color of a priest's knickers and wheter or not you have a dead jewish rable rouser up on your cross still happen but for different, maybe more rational reasons.
A Jewish carpenter starts telling folks to be nice to one another and that the temple ain't the right place to be transacting business. The boss Rabbis think to themselves, "Wow, I never looked at it that way. I like the way he's thinking. Let's buy this guy some lunch and have us a good ol' chat". 2000 years of history have a slightly different flavor.
I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that if you are ballsy enough to strap up and face down the man, you stand a slight chance of modern martyrdom. Expecting instant changeis about as rational and realistic as expecting politicians to work soley in the best interests of their consituents and the greater society around them.
Those of you who go forth with a song in your hearts, a smile on your lips and a bag full of civility backed up by a correct and thorough understanding of the law deserve nothing but respect. Those of you who insist on screaming bloody lawsuit and "fire all cops" everytime things don't go just the way you think they should need to bone up on your history, phychology and sociology and understand that this is a long game being played here and the fat lady ain't even close to warming up for her solo yet.
I've just gotten my nomex boxer shorts back from the cleaners soflame onbrothers.
*Hyperbole is not a bigger better version of the Super Bowl.