It's not so much looking for a fight, as seeing the writing on the wall. Eventually, the vast majority of American society will find it more socially acceptable to NOT own a firearm, than to to own one. Whether from financial, peer or FedGov pressure, sometime in the future it will be more likely that there ISNT a gun in the normal home, then there is. There will be fewer people who see shooting as a true viable sport, much more information in the media about how much it costs everyone to take care of a gunshot victim, and more of a quiet, unvoiced "distaste" for citizens who admit to legal gun ownership. If you look closely you already see the signs of this all around you. For example, A child draws a picture of a gun in school and he can be suspended and sent to counseling. A positive spin put on gun "buy-back" programs by local and national media and how much safer we all are when guns are out of the home. More and more signs in stores and restaurants banning CCW. Major store chains quietly cutting down on how many gun magazines they carry or pushing them into the back of the newsrack as if the magazines were pornagraphy. Venues that have held gun shows for years now stopping them for "insurance" purposes or from the demand of a anti-gun group. Stores that used to sell pistols, rifles and ammo, then only selling rifles and ammo, then just ammo and finally stopping ammo sales completely. The FedGov creating more restrictions, definitions and confusing laws that seem designed to make us just throw up our hands at the stupidity of it all. The loss of places to go shooting within easy reach of most people. If you start looking for the signs of the demise of the American gun culture... they are all around you. I dont believe that there is a vast conspiracy that is organized against us. I really don't. What I see is creeping incrementalism, a series of baby steps down a long road that leads to the voluntary disarming of America. When that happens we will have bared our throats and handed the FedGov the knife. The ballot box will be useless then to effect real change, because without the promise of a well-armed, citizen revolution that will defend the country when the FedGov oversteps their authority, they will do so time and time again, as we have seen. At that point any real chance of true freedom will be taken from us and we will have to embrace our existence as slaves and puppets because that is all we will deserve. Cut the strings now while you still can. We have the chance to say NO, to force their hands and make them reveal just how afraid of us they really are. The second ammendment of the United States Constitution safeguards the rest of them. When it is destroyed in principle and on paper... so are we all.
Michael in Sandy, Oregon/Owner of IronWolf Industries
