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First as promised I would like to post some comments from people who wrote me
and joined the NRA or ISRA because of my last article. I personally want to
thank them for no longer sitting on the sidelines and instead getting into the
game.
Don: Count us in. I am a member of the NRA but I have been on the outside
looking in at the ISRA far too long. I just downloaded an application and
it will be coming in the mail within the week (and for my wife and daughter as
well).
Randall - 3 Memberships ISRA
With HB2414 I knew it was time to be counted as an Illinois citizen who is sick
of the dictatorial push to disarm myself and my fellow statesmen and I am
especially outraged at Comrade Blagojevich's insistence that I must be a
criminal or terrorist to want an "assault weapon". I sincerely hope I'm not the
only one to wake up to this urgent need to be heard. Josh - 1 NRA & 1 ISRA
Membership
Don: I am already a NRA member and later tonight after we are done working at
our VFW fish fry, I will be getting a membership to ISRA. I drive a truck and
listen to NRA news every day and it just drives me nuts to hear of the crazy
bills introduced in CHICAGO oops I mean SPRINGFIELD. Moving from OK to IL is a
hell of a big shock. WOW such gun laws, but you can count on my family and I to
help with the fight.
Al - 1 ISRA Membership
I belonged to so many organizations and figured I have to stop somewhere. But
then I decided to stop letting others carry my load and become a member of the
ISRA also. I procrastinated too long and I just wanted to say yes, add my number
and count me in!
Bruno - 1 ISRA Membership
Don: I used to belong to ISRA and let my membership lapse. I tried to join
on-line a couple years ago and the system didn't work. Illinois gun owner rights
are in pitiful shape and appear to be headed even further down hill. I am
rejoining ISRA to lend my support and stay informed of what further
unconstitutional nonsense Daley et al are pushing for. Thanks, Keith
- 1 ISRA Membership
I’m sure everyone is familiar with the famous words spoken by
Charleton Heston at the NRA convention as he held up a Muzzleloader just
presented to him as a gift, while the crowd roared! Some may say it was just an
exclamatory phrase spoken by a celebrity. I beg to differ. It was a very deep
conviction Mr. Heston held in his heart over his firearm and he was not afraid
to say it!
I believe each and every one of us should have the same conviction and have
those words as our motto. It is that serious today and anyone who thinks
otherwise is living in the dark ages. Imagine if you will that you are an early
colonist in this country and there were people talking about removing the 2nd
Amendment right just established in the Bill Of Rights. I believe you would use
those very words to those antagonists.
The same should hold true today. The anti-gun lot always tries to play on your
sympathetic side. They will say things like, "Surely you don’t object to a
simple waiting period”? or “Surely you don’t object to banning rapid fire
weapons such as semi-autos”? or “Surely you don’t object to locks on your guns
so no one gets hurt”?
Your response could be something like this. “Surely you don’t object to waiting
four hours to respond to someone who just falsely accused you of something”? or
“Surely you don’t object to rapid fire responses to someone telling lies about
you”? or “Surely you don’t object to us putting a lock on your mouth so no one
gets hurt by your words”? Whether it’s the 1st Amendment or the 2nd, they both
are your rights established by the founding fathers in the Bill Of Rights.
Their response to your questions might be, ”Over my dead body”! Then you say,
“From my cold dead hands.” They will always try to make you feel guilty about
firearm ownership like you are in the minority and you shouldn’t speak out in
favor of it. That is BS and you should speak out with both barrels of your mouth
in a gentle but definite manner.
Ask them if they can give you an example of where banning of guns has reduced
murders. Tell them they have a number of places to choose from like England,
Australia, Canada. All these have banned gun ownership and gun crime has
doubled. How about Washington, D.C. or Chicago. The reason being criminals don’t
obey gun control laws and will always get guns! Tell them if they noticed that
since we banned heroin we sure solved the drug problem, didn’t we?
There are millions of people who think just like you and the only reason you
hear the other side so often is because of the liberal press in this country,
not because they are the majority! Tell them that if they don’t want to own a
firearm and prefer to be a victim, that is their choice, but don’t ever talk
about taking ‘your choice’ of self-defense away!!
Then they will usually come out with, you don’t need such and such a weapon for
hunting. Tell them it doesn’t say,” In order to duck hunt, the right of the
people shall not be infringed.” The 2ndAmendment is not about hunting! It’s
about the right to “keep and bear”.
When someone approaches you to talk about the dangers of guns just say in your
mind immediately and quietly to yourself, “From my cold dead hands”, and you
will come out on top. Apply common sense to everything they say and you can’t
lose. Tell them of the great drop in crime rate in every concealed carry state.
They can’t back up any of their rhetoric with facts of any kind. They can’t
stand facts of how gun control has failed and gun ownership has reduced crime.
It may only be small talk, but you will turn it into powerful talk very shortly!
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