I refuse to call the statists liberal. It is a term the they hi-jacked... like the People's Democratic Republic of North Korea.

That is the goal we are working towards now, along with getting rid of the no gun zones.

I shrugged some years ago when all this crap started in earnest. I gave up the profitable life I was leading and am now in a different state making 1/3 of what I did before. I do everything I can to lower my taxability, which I got down to 2% this year. WOO HOO! My wife has left the workforce and now homeschools our young one so that she may grow up without those teachers who have gotten their jobs as educators and their liberal beliefs mixed up. It also keeps her out of this Common core dog and pony show.

Politically I am active in state and national gun rights. I talk to everyone I interact with more than once about it. I also make the normal calls, letters, and gatherings. My conversations with individuals usually start with their opinion against guns and me asking them who is responsible for their protection. They almost always reply with the word police. I, of course, site the 2005 SCOTUS decision in Castle Rock v. Gonzales and the conversation turns my way every single time.

I find it amazing that we are able to not only survive, but live and thrive as a family on a single income of just over $50,000 a year. I never thought it possible, and it has given me another outlet. All the drive I had to succeed and, well being honest, conquer has found a place in this new life. I make my own ammo, do my own auto repair, we garden, and I have actually taken up woodworking of all things. I find that I really enjoy the act of creating not with only my mind, but my hands also. My work is not what I would call “up to snuff” yet, but it is getting there.

I do what I can, but when it comes right down to it these jerks in office and the people who elected them have only each other to blame. They belong together. Me? I opt out. To hell with the looters and moochers. Let them have it… For now.

I can be as calm as the next man. I can debate, and discuss all the time. I will argue for gun rights, but I will do it peacefully. I will be peaceful right up till they decide not to be peaceful. After they make that decision I will gladly meet my maker with pride.

You say someone has been foolish to identify themselves to the government by having a carry permit? I say if one has abandoned their ability to protect themselves and their family while out and about leaving their day to day safety up to random chance, the goodwill of their fellow man, and the forbearance of reptiles they are the real fools. There is no shortage of people who believe they can own a firearm no one knows about, not get training, not frequent a range, and think they will somehow “rise to the occasion” if that firearm is needed. It is simply not true in the least. In a stressful situation you do not revert back to the level of the last youtube video you watched, or even to the last training you got. You revert back to the level of training that you have MASTERED. I have seen combat, just as others have, and what you said is nothing more than a recipe for failure and death.

Interesting thoughts and suggestions. Don't know, in all honesty, how effective any might be.
Take into account that the Dept. of Education and schools are indoctrinating kids at an early age. Children are taught not to be proud of the USA, not to show too much patriotism or pride. As a society we no longer award achievements or excellence instead choosing to award everyone equally. The US is now a country where half the population, yes, 50 %, is on some sort of government assistance.
I may be entirely wrong in my assessment however, having lived abroad, experience a great many adversities, I believe the only way America will get back on track is through experiencing some very hard times (perhaps like those in Atlas Shrugged).
I think it will take harder times than the Great Depression era. When all handouts are gone and people really have to fend for themselves, perhaps we might see a reboot of the USA but until we are tested by fire and show our mettle I don't think anything will change.

+1

Bingo

The Tea Party's three core values are:
fiscal responsibility,
constitutionally limited government,
and free markets...

I would add Individual Rights. Not even close to being globalists.

Besides, if one is political at all, they are already likely on a list in some office of some government tentacle, being at least kept on the radar of some mindless drone of a man, or in computer database of everyone, being kept on hand should the need arise that it might become useful. That's why the massive amount of data-mining. They are just going ahead and getting everybody's info and storing it because they have the best data storage technology our money can buy. If a sheep gets out of line, anything they might need to know is just sitting there, waiting, to be used as a whip or chains.

That would rely upon *US* getting rid of them... sanction of the victim. No thanks. Come and get em'.

Maybe, but it still leaves them with that pesky little problem of actually coming to get them.

try working to get her replaced in a primary or in the general election this November. If she doesn't represent the people, get someone who does.

I'd be remiss to not quote from greatness:
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." - Ayn Rand

...and from some advice given to Sir Antony Fisher, as described in the Introduction to the Road to Serfdom, about how to affect change in society:
"Fisher makes the short walk from his office to the [London School of Economics] and knocks on Hayek’s door. Fisher also recalled the physical setting of Hayek’s office in minute and accurate detail, including its proximity to that of the dreaded Harold Laski. Fisher claimed that after small talk (which neither excelled at) the conversation went like this:
-Fisher:
I share all your worries and concerns as expressed in The Road to Serfdom and I’m going to go into politics and put it all right.
-Hayek:
No you’re not! Society’s course will be changed only by a change in ideas. First you must reach the intellectuals, the teachers and writers, with reasoned argument. It will be their influence on society which will prevail, and the politicians will follow."

As Ghandi said: "be the change you expect in the world." Resistance to the creeping socialism and tyranny starts with one person at a time deciding not to believe the government lies and not "going along with the program."

You can't make people wake up, but you can control what you do.about the situation, and you CAN try to educate the people around you.

The good news is more and more people ARE waking up, and there are more of us than there are of the thug socialist tyrants who are trying to destroy our freedom. Keep calm and keep resisting.

Yes, there are more "takers" than ever, but there are also over 100 million armed citizens who are ready to stand up for freedom...never fear.

Ideas when the majority of all the people that have exactly the same voting power as you and I have been systematically taught not to think? It is a lovely idea that you can change it by ideas but in reality this would take a very very long time and we have been waiting to do this while the country became more and more unfree and moving toward totalitarian decade after decade. This approach will clearly not work except over a long haul - as long as the Fabians and Socialists employed to get us here. They started over a century ago.

Hi SolitudesBless,

Your wrong. Most Americans are against what has happened here but most of us have not woken up yet but when we do, the people that are trying to bring down America will not be standing any longer. God bless America and down with the Secular Progressives.

Kal