A Pledge To Gun Grabbers

I was 26 years old and barely married for two months when what you see in the pictures above happened. I was in Romania, carrying an AKM-47 as a Navy reservist. I didn't really cared if I was to live or to die - living my entire as a slave under communism really made me indifferent to the perspective of dying. In fact, I was ready to put a bullet in my head if the revolution wouldn't have succeed.

My father once told me: son, the single biggest mistake me and your grandad did was to surrender our guns in 1949 when the communists made gun ownership illegal. You paid for our mistake and I am sorry for that.

Now I have a 22 year old son and I am making anyone who wants to come to my home take my guns away A PLEDGE:

YOU WILL NOT TAKE MY GUNS. I WILL NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE MY FATHER AND GRANDFATHER DID. I WILL NOT LET MY SON RISK HIS LIFE FIGHTING A ANOTHER REVOLUTION TO OVERTHROW ANOTHER DICTATOR BECAUSE I WAS A COWARD AND GAVE UP INTO YOUR DEMANDS.

I owe that to my son and to all the people who died for liberty in December 1989.

Hmm...I thought protests against `war toys’ were more recent.

But then, 1967-69 were the worst years of the anti Vietnam war demonstrations. Probably the same bunch against both.

I’ve been following the gun control battles ever since I heard Lyndon Johnson refer to “mail order murder” as the means by which Lee Harvey Oswald got his rifle. So that’s nearly fifty years.

I am as convinced now as then that gun control is not about fighting crime, it’s about controlling the population & suppressing gun rights people in particular as a political class that is hostile to the new societal order.

DiFi & her fellow gungrabbers will IMO trip up on their own arrogance & demand really off the wall things like confiscation, neighborhood informants, & ostracism of gun owners as “not the kind of folks decent people want to associate with”. Speaking of picketers, watch for them to gather in front of conservative Congressmen’s homes starting next year.

Besides, there’s that annoying little bump in the road to confiscation called the U.S. Constitution.

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