Posted on 02/15/2014 8:51:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
What's your line in the sand?
When do you finally say, "Enough," decide to sell your house, pack up your things and move your life to another state that offers more freedom and liberty?
For me and my family, the straw that broke the camel's back was the ludicrous and oppressive gun legislation enacted last year in Connecticut by progressive Democrats and weak-kneed, unprincipled Republicans.
We are gun owners. We had been members of Connecticut Citizen's Defense League and many other Second Amendment and liberty organizations. There was no way we were going to submit to registration of anything that we owned, nor were we going to be restricted in defending ourselves by limiting the number of bullets in our magazines as a result of the state's new gun laws.
Our guns did not kill those children in Sandy Hook, and yet Connecticut wanted to punish us for it. We are cheering for those who have decided not to register and we respect others who decided not to risk becoming instant felons. Our choice was simply to leave.
Nothing in the new gun laws would have prevented Adam Lanza from murdering. Being students of history and both descendants of Holocaust survivors, my husband and I are aware of the gun control, citizen disarmament agenda. We decided we would have no part of registration and the subsequent confiscation that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and his cohorts thirst for. We understand fully that gun control isn't about guns, it's about control.
We decided not to put our ability to defend ourselves in jeopardy, especially after the Cheshire home invasion. In speaking to legislators such as Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, and Sen. Martin Looney, D-New Haven, we understood full well that they were not finished and that more anti-Second Amendment legislation was forthcoming. It's just a matter of time before they place high taxes on ammunition and heap other crazy requirements on gun owners in Connecticut with the sole purpose of making it impossible to own or use a firearm.
The Republican minority was complicit in destroying constitutional rights in Connecticut, so we couldn't even go to Senate Minority Leader John McKinney of Fairfield or House Minority Leader Larry Cafero of Norwalk for help. We decided not to stick around for yet another election cycle to stop this insanity, because progressive culture and uninformed voters continue to elect people who erode our rights.
It was time to leave Connecticut. It's a state riddled with political corruption, which has ripped Second Amendment rights from citizens while taxing them to death and redistributing wealth to illegal immigrants and nanny state freeloaders.
We are not alone in our decision to leave Connecticut. The exodus has begun in earnest as people clamor to move anywhere where there is more economic opportunity, smaller government, less crime and more freedom. Their children have already left the state because there are no real career jobs to be had. Texas, Montana, Wyoming, Tennessee, North Carolina are some choices for people who are leaving, but we decided on New Hampshire.
The motto "Live Free or Die" is not taken lightly here. There's no state income tax and no sales tax, and gun rights are still intact. All it took was $10 and a short form to get our concealed carry permits. We can walk around all day with holstered guns and no police will bother us and the citizens don't freak out either. It's one of the safest states in the country, too. People here understand that guns are tools and are not to be banned just because they look scary. We can hunt and set up our own shooting range on our property without anyone saying we can't.
I take much satisfaction in knowing that my state representative and senator are committed to preserving Second Amendment rights. A gun control bill was soundly defeated just this past week by liberty-loving New Hampshire legislators.
There's a growing liberty community here as well, as a result of the Free State Project, and they are working to keep New Hampshire free. Freedom to live as you choose without a big nanny state government behemoth dictating how you live is quite refreshing.
Waco was not about a firearm stamp. It was about dampening the zeal for the Patriot movement at the time. It was a total Fed bureaucrat disaster, idiots like Jamie Gorelick and Janet Reno did that.
You are talking about 1 small group. Texas is huge and those who will keep their guns are many.
Remember, the Texas revolution started when Santa Anna tried to take the guns away.
Remember, during Reconstruction they tried to do the same in Texas. That was short lived and did not work well. Texas was a hazardous place to peddle such crap then.
It still is now.
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By the way, did you notice that Remington is “expanding” to AL? The reality, they may keep some manufacturing in NY (for a while) but eventually they will move completely.
Why are the ComDems so desperate to disarm us? Just look at those examples where it was done before.
No, Texas is not going to be disarmed.
Don’t give up yet.
Bad choice! Future son-in-law’s parents moved to NH 20 years ago. They are now complaining about MA residents moving into the state as pointed out by another Freeper. Should have gone south in a right-to-work state where people don’t just have a motto but act as well.
“Remember, during Reconstruction they tried to do the same in Texas. That was short lived and did not work well. Texas was a hazardous place to peddle such crap then.”
The Reconstruction government put in a new Constitution that neutered the right to keep and bear arms. When the carpetbaggers were kicked out, the new state constitution of 1876 left in a loophole for the legislators to “regulate” the wearing of arms. That is why Texas had very limited legal carry of firearms for the next hundred and twenty years, and why it still does not have open carry of sidearms today.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/08/txcome-and-take-it-means-to-restore.html
Correct.
Some things are changed slowly.
Freedom lost is hard to regain.
We lost a lot in the Civil War/War between the states. Yes, it ended slavery, but it would have been better for everyone if it could have been ended without war, like in Brazil.
Or so it seems to this poor mortal.
That which is seen and that which is not seen (but would be best foreseen). F. Bastiat 1849
Well those folks have to learn to put their socialist thinking to the curb just like the junk they are not planning to to take with them.
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