shastadude17
Regular Member
So with all this talk of a looming all out gun ban and/or AWB, the Feinsteinator, and all this other crap...most people are holding the optimistic view that the house will reject anything and nothing will pass. I can't help but ask myself, what's the course of action for us as gun owners if it does? I personally know people who consider themselves pro-gun, hold CCW permits, and after Sandy Hook are questioning the "need for assault weapons and large capacity magazines", and don't agree with teachers being armed or the removal of gun free zones.
I personally have wrote my congressman. A lot of people have. We can petition all we want on these worthless whitehouse.gov petitions. We can try to vote out our legislators after this happens. We can send money to the NRA (who personally I feel sold us out a little bit on the 21st, but that's neither here nor there), the GOA, Florida Carry or your state's equivalent, but none of these things are going guarantee any legislation from passing, nor will it help us if it does.
So what is the next step? What do we do if this passes? What are the alternatives? Of course no one is going to want to open-carry protest or protest unarmed in small numbers, as they will most certainly be arrested or at least field interviewed and added to some DHS watch-list more than likely.
Do we get a thousand people to drop everything they're doing, risk their livelihoods, leave their families for a few days to march on D.C. in an organized open carry protest, hoping that they can't arrest all of us? Is this 1775 America? Or do we put our faith in the government and hope that these laws get reversed next go-around, or that our friendly neighborhood local law enforcement and state attorney will look the other way when someone stands their ground with their now-illegal concealed carry weapon and defends themself?
Thoughts, OCDO?
I personally have wrote my congressman. A lot of people have. We can petition all we want on these worthless whitehouse.gov petitions. We can try to vote out our legislators after this happens. We can send money to the NRA (who personally I feel sold us out a little bit on the 21st, but that's neither here nor there), the GOA, Florida Carry or your state's equivalent, but none of these things are going guarantee any legislation from passing, nor will it help us if it does.
So what is the next step? What do we do if this passes? What are the alternatives? Of course no one is going to want to open-carry protest or protest unarmed in small numbers, as they will most certainly be arrested or at least field interviewed and added to some DHS watch-list more than likely.
Do we get a thousand people to drop everything they're doing, risk their livelihoods, leave their families for a few days to march on D.C. in an organized open carry protest, hoping that they can't arrest all of us? Is this 1775 America? Or do we put our faith in the government and hope that these laws get reversed next go-around, or that our friendly neighborhood local law enforcement and state attorney will look the other way when someone stands their ground with their now-illegal concealed carry weapon and defends themself?
Thoughts, OCDO?