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Cold to the cause. My view! I'm never going to be 'cold to the cause.' My personal thoughts on this subject is that its only those who are ready, willing and prepared to give away their freedoms and willing to kiss butt, bown down, and pay homage to those who want to control our lives that are or have become cold to the cause!
" When I speak to customers ( I am an Assistant Service Manager at a new car dealership) and try to explain things to them in a clear almost dumbed down manner."
. So you treat your customers like Wood Ducks?"
Sorry mate, but I wont fall for it?
Dont forget the enemy of freedom infiltrates every avenue available here, and on many boards such as this, the same professing to be champions in favour of armed self defence whilst working tirelessly behind the scenes white anting and destroying our rights and freedoms in the houses of parliment, the media, and in the homes where ever possible. It happened here again just recently. An alleged staunch sporting shooters advocate was bought off by some one in power and now works against us, publicly!
" and much attitude and abrasiveness comes across.'
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No more abrasive as someone telling me I cannot arm myself and defend myself or my family. People who tell me I cannot defend myself have so far never told me this without attitude without being abrasive?
Please Haz, would you kindly disarm your self and place yourself at the mercy of a complete stranger to defend you and yours?
After owning firearms for over 50 years, now, before I can buy a firearm, I must obtain a Permit To Acquire. The first permit has a mandatory 28 day delay before it is first issued. In some states (e.g. Queensland, Victoria, and New South Wales), this is waived for second and subsequent firearms of the same class. For each firearm a "Genuine Reason" must be given, relating to pest control, hunting, target shooting, or collecting. Self-defence is not accepted as a reason for issuing a licence. Also each firearm I own must be registered to me by serial number. How abrasive is that? I havent changed in the past 50 years? Tell me what has changed?
Lets be nice, have less attitude and be less abrasive to these people???
Gun control groups in Australia have very few active members but a high media profile. The main focus of these groups is on tightening firearm controls, reducing legal gun ownership in Australia. Active lobbying in Australia is conducted by two main groups: Gun Control Australia and the National Coalition for Gun Control (NCGC).
Gun Control Australia in its publications and website makes assertions such as:
Failure of Duty by the Gun Lobby
The Gun Lobby, the NRA and the SSAA have consistently failed to come up with an effective policy for keeping firearms away from criminals. In advocating a "Right to Bear Arms", resulting in decreased controls on firearms, the NRA has negligently failed to provide a mechanism for controlling the access to guns by criminals.
Just like governments, police and the anties have failed to keep firearms out of the hand of criminals, and in so doing fail to protect the very citizens they have dissarmed.
Police have no legal duty to protect individuals. Police have no legal liability when they fail to protect individuals, and Police have virtually no physical ability to protect individuals. Go and read the thread, "Who needs a gun in Australia," on this very board and see how inaffective government, police and the anties have been in making Australia a safer place! We could double the number of police in Australia and the odds are, if you're unable to defend yourself, they're just going take your description of your assailant at best, or draw a chalk outline around you at worst.
Why do I stand up and work for the cause? 'Because it is my God given right,' to defend myself, my family and my property, just as it is my God given right to feed my family, cloth my family and put a roof over their heads, as He expects me to.
"A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring." (Proverbs 25:26)
I know many law abiding sporting shooters down under who keep them to themselves. Never rocking the boat, never sending an e-mail to a politician and voicing their distain. They say it avoids a lot of unnecessary hysteria and is in keeping with the Australia ethos of not alarming the neighbours if at all possible. I say thats a lot of hog-wash for I read daily news headlines where people are terrified to go out not only at night but in many places, in broad daylight. If you guys in the USA stop fighting for your rights, and if you loose your right to own firearms for self defence, you will become slaves to criminals and to government. The anties, like those down under will NEVER stop whittling away at every right you still have untill they win. They want to control you, and the only way they can control you is to render you defenceless! I will never back down to the anties, because 'its my right' to be a free man. Who owns your life?
As far as the anties go they can K.M.A!
Cheers Haz.