odysseus
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Modern thoughts...
I am not old, but growing up in a liberal area of Cali - I would take summers in AZ where my family there was pretty second ammendment oriented. The contrast was always large between these, I remember as a youth describing back to friends in Cali how even a neighbor of a relative I was staying with mowed his lawn packing. They thought it was weird and would translate it even to me being weird, but if you look back at how AZ still in areas was still very western and people still had what in my mind was the mindset to what America was built on (outside of those who combined it with racism). This I am sure has changed. The baby-boomers have really trashed this up, and I am a gen X'er.
Now even gun people are worried and unsettled when they see civilians packing. I myself wouldn't do it open in most situations as it brings unwanted scrutiny and harassment (as well as tactical defense) issues. The whole thing is that I feel I am living in the last age of civilian gun ownership even though we are constitutionally protected, it is being whittled away.
And why does not the NRA with all it's big money and people work to change public opinion in areas like Cali where it is weak? It's a public opinion war and in my mind in the liberal areas it is loosing. With the containment "one-world" second amendment bashing teachers in the powerful teachers unions teaching fear and liberal dogma to youth - what does anyone think here is going to happen in 50 years with gun laws and our ability to posses them in the whole country? You need a strong force of people and money like the NRA - but as far as I can see they don't see it as a priority and are being very isolationist on the issue.
I am not old, but growing up in a liberal area of Cali - I would take summers in AZ where my family there was pretty second ammendment oriented. The contrast was always large between these, I remember as a youth describing back to friends in Cali how even a neighbor of a relative I was staying with mowed his lawn packing. They thought it was weird and would translate it even to me being weird, but if you look back at how AZ still in areas was still very western and people still had what in my mind was the mindset to what America was built on (outside of those who combined it with racism). This I am sure has changed. The baby-boomers have really trashed this up, and I am a gen X'er.
Now even gun people are worried and unsettled when they see civilians packing. I myself wouldn't do it open in most situations as it brings unwanted scrutiny and harassment (as well as tactical defense) issues. The whole thing is that I feel I am living in the last age of civilian gun ownership even though we are constitutionally protected, it is being whittled away.
And why does not the NRA with all it's big money and people work to change public opinion in areas like Cali where it is weak? It's a public opinion war and in my mind in the liberal areas it is loosing. With the containment "one-world" second amendment bashing teachers in the powerful teachers unions teaching fear and liberal dogma to youth - what does anyone think here is going to happen in 50 years with gun laws and our ability to posses them in the whole country? You need a strong force of people and money like the NRA - but as far as I can see they don't see it as a priority and are being very isolationist on the issue.
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