Stage 2 ~
If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it.
My complaint was about the LAZY, SELFISH, and/or DISINTERESTED gun owners in California who did nothing to either fight this legislation themselves, or to alert others that the battle needed to be fought. This doesn't slam every gun owner in the state -- only the LAZY, SELFISH and APATHETIC ones ... of which there are plainly too many.
The LAZY gunowners are the largest group. They think other people will do the boring and slightly embarrassing work of fighting stuff like this.
Then there are the SELFISH ones. Perfectly represented by a young man who posted on here awhile back, "The reason I said I didn't think autos should be made public is because I don't really want one..." For these guys, it's all about their guns. If they like rifles, they won't fight handgun battles. If they're duck hunters, they won't lift a finger to help the riflemen.
And finally there are the DISINTERESTED or APATHETIC types, the ones who just don't care. Some of them might be overwhelmed or discouraged because they used to care. Some of them never cared. But what they have in common is that they just don't care anymore. Fighting stuff like this is too darn much work, and they aren't going to bother.
If none of these shoes fit, please don't wear them! I complained about gunowners who hadn't done anything to publicize this dastardly legislation, and hadn't fought it. If you did either of those things, I wasn't talking about you or to you.
What did you, personally, do to fight this thing?
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