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The Letter Blew Away
vanity ^ | 16 Jan 2013 | palmer

Posted on 01/16/2013 6:51:48 PM PST by palmer

"I was going to write my Congressman but there was a sudden gust of wind and the letter blew away." Make sense? How about: this: "I lost my firearms in a (insert overused unfunny cliche) accident so I no longer exercise my Second Amendment rights." In other words, I'll just pretend to not be armed until some ill-defined time in the future, and then I'll get out my firearms, and do some practice since I won't have had any for years and then... ?? Maybe at that point I'll find my pen and some more paper and ???


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Here's my situation: I have a few, pathetically few .22 magazines that may become "illegal" again at some point. I will not give them up. But if I chose to fight physically, I would be killed in minutes at the most. So I choose to fight in the political arena. It is not much, but I do what I can:

1 posted on 01/16/2013 6:51:54 PM PST by palmer
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Good for you! Seriously.

Not sure I’m really understanding the point you’re trying to make though.


2 posted on 01/16/2013 6:55:41 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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I called my senator but her last name is Feinstein, so it is the same as throwing up a letter into the wind


3 posted on 01/16/2013 6:56:04 PM PST by KTM rider ( , you'd be lucky to get= $7....LOL !)
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I would love to fight this in the political Arena, but unfortunately I have Sen.s Mikulski, Cardin ,and Representative Steny Hoyer.

My letter may as well be lost as to write to these liberal piss-ants.


4 posted on 01/16/2013 6:56:12 PM PST by Venturer
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when the republican party called for a donation, I gave him a long winded rant and hung up on him. May as well have started punching and slapping the wind


5 posted on 01/16/2013 6:59:25 PM PST by KTM rider ( , you'd be lucky to get= $7....LOL !)
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Call the capitol switchboard and ask for any Congress Critter you want. It will help if you are prepared to give an address and zip code from their district. 202-224-3121. Or you can call after hours and leave them a voice mail.


6 posted on 01/16/2013 6:59:45 PM PST by csmusaret (I will give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.)
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At what point do we stand and fight? What’s the trigger event for you? Abrogation of the 2nd? Suspension of habeus corpus? Cancellation of an election?


7 posted on 01/16/2013 7:00:20 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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“”I lost my firearms in a (insert overused unfunny cliche) accident “

I sold all of mine in a private sale to a couple of New Yorkers.


8 posted on 01/16/2013 7:01:27 PM PST by RFEngineer
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>> Or you can call after hours and leave them a voice mail.

Unless their mailbox is full. Which is usually.

Let’s face it — if you’re not a big donor they don’t give a rat’s ass about hearing from you.

More precisely — their INTERNS don’t give a rat’s ass.

Mr. or Mrs. Important Representative him/herself are too important to have contact with mere citizens.


9 posted on 01/16/2013 7:02:46 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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Men have been misplacing their weapons for a long time.

Q. Can anything less than a military force carry the Stamp Act into execution?

A. I do not see how a military force can be applied to that purpose.

Q. Why may it not?

A. Suppose a military force sent into America; they will find nobody in arms; what are they then to do? They cannot force a man to take stamps who chooses to do without them. They will not find a rebellion; they may indeed make one.


Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766)
10 posted on 01/16/2013 7:03:51 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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I was freaked out the past week of so about obamas executive orders. BUT after reading them I believe he has blinked.

He is toothless. He wants congress to deal with this.

The congress and Senate are too afraid to pass anything as they WILL LOSE THEIR JOBS.

HOO HOO today was a good day!


11 posted on 01/16/2013 7:11:33 PM PST by kennyboy509 ( Ha! I kill me!!!)
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Buy more firearms and donate them to the Urban Outdoorsmen.


12 posted on 01/16/2013 7:12:18 PM PST by Paladin2
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Have they banned hat pins yet?

You can pry them from my old gray head.


13 posted on 01/16/2013 7:13:30 PM PST by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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What’s the trigger event for you?

The moment any gun-grabber decides to visit my area....

14 posted on 01/16/2013 7:18:11 PM PST by MountainDad (Support your local Militia)
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To: Nervous Tick

I get and second his point.

Too many gun owners will not admit thereto without veiling the fact in a lame overused embarrassing joke about “lost ‘em all in a boating accident”.
They’re the people who, when needed to stand up and fight, will quietly excuse themselves due to some subsequent engagement.

Bugs the hell outta me here on FR.


15 posted on 01/16/2013 7:26:00 PM PST by ctdonath2 (End of debate. Your move.)
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At this point, I would be very careful writing to any Federal official. I have a sneaking suspicion that the names and address of dissidents will be kept for future use. Me? As the tag-line says. Loading up and hunkering down. Burying firearms and ammo in the side lot.


16 posted on 01/16/2013 7:26:52 PM PST by Tupelo (Hunkered down & loading up)
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What’s the trigger event for you? Abrogation of the 2nd?

Abrogation is being done one infringement at a time. We have to fight every infringement. Read the NRA website that I linked to. They may not be perfect but they say we have to stand and fight. We need to do so while we have numbers to do so. If we "lose" too many firearms in accidents, then we lose politically.

17 posted on 01/16/2013 7:29:54 PM PST by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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To: ctdonath2
Amen.

You'd think with all the damn "boating accidents" that FR consisted of nothing but Kennedys.

18 posted on 01/16/2013 7:30:48 PM PST by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: ctdonath2

Your prior rants on this topic were my inspiration.


19 posted on 01/16/2013 7:31:16 PM PST by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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Loading up and hunkering down

You can choose to do whatever you want to do. I am only suggesting that people should not copy your strategy.

20 posted on 01/16/2013 7:33:34 PM PST by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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