You Won the Battle But Lost the War

Jews For The Preservation of Firearm Ownership ^ | 05/10/02 | Aaron Zelman

[gwmoore]

Thanks for the ping, Neil. That is a fantastic essay, and 100% on target. What is more sad is that the vets who served during the years when the constitution was being torn apart by both the liberals and the counterculture, didn't even know about most of it, we were just not informed by the country we had sworn to protect.

I spent most of the '60s in the service, and 1969-70 in Vietnam, and was not really aware of just what was happening back in the world, while I was out of same. I, personally, had more important things to worry about ;-)

I can only speak from experience, when I walked out the front gate of Travis AFB, and was attempting to get a taxi so I could get over to SFO quickly, that I noticed the strange looking people or the chanting, or the candles, or the signs. Once my vision expanded, and I saw, what was, apparently the "usual group" who "welcomed" the flights back into the world, I went through about 100 different emotions in about as many milliseconds. I truly, felt like an alien, who arrived here suddenly, and opened the door of his spacecraft, not knowing what was there. I simply couldn't believe what was happening, and what I was seeing.

I then caught the taxi to SFO, and proceeded to get ticketed, then to the bar, where I consumed a great deal of alcohol to anesthetise me from what I just saw. Fortunately, 10 years later, I recognized my mistake, and became sober ;-)

One question always runs through my thoughts about these happenings, and that is WHY? Why did the sheeple back then just allow this s**t to happen? Were there no warning signs? I realise that the original sin of GCA'68 was directly caused by the rioting in the cities, and then jumped on by the libs, just as every other "gun control" bill was enacted the same way, by exploitation of an incident (Rioting, JFK,RFK, King, Evers etc ad infinitum ;but the question I have is why things were allowed to get out of control, particularly among students?

Why would anyone in their right mind allow this to go on, especially when they, themselves, were, in the majority, veterans of that "good war".

I have asked this question a good many times, and frankly the answers suprise me, even though, with what we now know, I shouldn't be suprised. The answer I get most often is "I didn't know" or "This never was reported", so I guess the spin machine was pretty active even back then.

But what amazes me is there was no fight, no opposition to any of this stuff. The name "silent majority" was sure right, they were silent, and the left and counterculture took over.

I apologize for this rant, but I still, 32 years later, can't figure it out. It would have taken one bold step then, and none of the stuff over the last years would have happened. I guess that I have been of the same mold all my life, as I was a conservative from day one, was a critic of Saint JFK", supported Goldwater, all that good stuff.

I just can't begin to figure out why nobody did anything about this stuff. GCA '68 didn't come out of a vacuum, yet there seems to have been no organized opposition to it. Campus takeovers could have been put down and the protestors expelled, and jailed on a variety of charges. Not for excercising their 1A rights of freedom of speech and assembly, but for damage, vandalism, anything up to treason for what went on. I wish I had an answer for this that makes sense to me, but unfortunately, I dont.

Keep the Faith for Freedom

Greg