From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>I take it that you and other contributors want to have
>the various sections of the firearms act that infringe
>our rights repealed?
>Is it fair to assume that a burning sense of injustice
>remains? (It does for
>me).
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>
>If you want to regain lost rights, the only way to do it
>is to use the same process that was used to remove them
>The courts and the politicians. Anyone who thinks otherwise
>is fooling themselves. Futile gestures like handing medals
>in, doing silly things at the commonwealth games and
>attacking everyone who disagrees with them are pointless and
>will only weaken the case. Only well presented and structured
>debate, strongly made cases and relentless pressure will win
>the day. Relentless pressure does not, however, have to
>translate into intemperate and hostile attacks on people
>either as individuals or institutions. It is human nature
>to fight back.
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Steve, & IG,
IG: Your point above - "Only well presented and
structured debate, strongly made cases . . ." isn't going to
do much for anybody, when almost everybody disregards
your position, largely because YOU cannot get adequate
press or media attention concerning YOUR position.
If what everybody else hears, sees, reads and
understands as the truth is nothing more that a pack of
deceptions, and if every major news story the public hears
about is so biased and politically one-sided, and if the majority
of your fellow citizen-subjects get the impression that the
police are almost to a man/woman on the wagon about your
guns, then you can talk until the cows come home.
And, I'd like to ask: Just who are you going to
debate with and where? If your mass media are not willing to
cover the affair, and (more importantly) if the other side
refuses to debate you because they can effectively dismiss
your invite as being an unworthy cause (remember: you are a
minority - they really do outnumber you), then whose ear are
you going to attend? You can be dismissed as irrelevant. In
fact, it is happening as I write this, because your shooting
community is so splintered that it effectively amounts to
tooth picks in a box of people who pick at each other's
firearms as unnecessary, trivial, over-the-top, extreme,
and borderline psychotic. By some of the discussions I've
witnessed, I have to wonder if they were talking about
hardware or software - get my drift?
I write letters all the time, with a lucky few being
published. But the same fish wraps publish 100 times more
in the opposite direction; and they publish more anti firearms
letters anyway. I cannot get even one anti to debate me in an
open forum, much less get a local paper to cover it, and this in
a state that sent the last anti-firearms plebiscite down by 70
percent margin of the popular vote.
My own American media is very much like yours,
except that most of the citizens own firearms, way in excess
of the usually quoted numbers. These bastard in my own
government are waiting for that opportune time to play the
confiscation game. But you can believe me when I say that
they literally shake in their Gucci shoes whenever some idiot
bureaucrat suggests that that happen. Pucker factor is a good
description for the feeling: they KNOW what will follow: it'll
be a short tax year, followed by many no-tax years.
We still have the option. Yours is either to go around
to each residence in your community, and convince your fellows
that bad laws should not exist, and to repeal them, or wait for the
inevitable knell. One man can make a difference - I did.
Your choice.
You are a cop; if that doesn't lend credence to your
words, then maybe its time you found out why.
ET
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I have to say we do a better job than the antis getting letters
in the paper, but the press overall is heavily baised against
us.
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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