"It's Guns That Set Us Apart!"

[amicus]

President-elect Barack Obama is already helping one industry’s bottom line, at least for the time being.

In a struggling economy, gun sales have been through the roof. Many political analysts say this is because Americans are afraid that once Obama is sworn into office, there may be more restrictions and bans on certain types of firearms.

Tyler Branch, owner of Branch Outdoors in Boone, said his store experienced a spike in sales as soon as Obama was declared the winner of the presidential race.

Branch said, “The day after the election, we sold out of every AR-15 and AK-47, which are our semi-automatic rifles with high-capacity clips.”

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Heard that on CNN news tonight, along with a statement that the new administration had no new gun legislation waiting in the wings.

In glaring opposition to the 'liberal' response at the election of Bush, Conserative Americans from all walks of life are preparing to defend their freedom rather than running to Canada.

Some States, Texas uppermost among them, are talking 10th Amendment separation from Federal control and the 'secession' word, withdrawing from the Union, is being heard more often.

I think it is time to print a second edition of my book, "A Call to Convention, A Call to Arms", and if you think I will pay a cent of tax on the million copies I hope to sell; think again.

There was an air of excitement across the land today, coast to coast, as neighbors discover they are not alone in their fear of Washington,
Deceit and Corruption.

If Americans do stage a Resistance or a Revolt, don't make the mistake of thinking the the U.S. Military will put down the insurrection. Not only will they not, they will join with the Patriots.

As I said elsewhere, helluva note, that in office less than the proverbial first 100 days, the new President is inciting a revolution.

How do you like them apples?

Amicus...

 

[slyc_willie]

Won't happen, Ami. Not in your lifetime or mine. There's too much comfort in passing the buck and borrowing from your brother. Too much has changed in the last few decades to preclude a revolution on the scale of 1861-1863.

Here in Texas, as in most states of the union, there's too much dependence on government aid and intervention. Too much security that can be deflected across the board.

Around 15 or so years ago, there was a man named Applewhite who found a loophole in the Texas Constitution that revealed Texas had never officially joined in with the USA. Technically, he said, this state was still a sovereign country, the Republic of Texas. To make his point, he holed himself up in a ranch and defied authorities to arrest him.

Well, guess what? He was arrested, his weapons taken, his lands confiscated. There was, as I recall, a little bubble of furor over it, but it lasted about a week. Since then, most Texas historians can't help but roll their eyes when mention of Applewhite comes up.

 

[JackLuis]

I call BS!

If the NRA, -(Insert name crazy org here)- thinks that a redneck puppet that was controlled by the Eastern Aristocracy didn't cause a revolt, a black man isn't enough any more Amicus.

The Gov of Texas was pandering, just as I'm sure Bush was pandering.

Oh andd don't even fall for that Chinese ammo con. The powder used turns your bore to chocolate sauce in 100 rounds.

I wouldn't want to piss off the National Guard, not after they have had tours in Iraq and may not be used to large targets.

When the Governor says he's going to revolt, don't make me laugh, he is revolting but not in a funny way.

 

[amicus]

Dear Slyc... Odds are that you are entirely correct...however...))

In the 1770's we were pretty much 13 separate but happy Colonies, beholden to a King.

At the time of the Revolution, a bare quarter wanted Independence, a quarter wanted continued allegiance to the Crown, and a full half declined to take sides.

This is not the 1770's and it ain't just Texas being a Lone Star. This is a different time, a different era and totally different circumstances.

None which, all of which means anything for certain, and I thought it would happen during the Carter years, at least then, I had a voice, a seat at the table, although a small one.

Several different commentators during the 'rallies', made note that this is just the 'beginning' of unrest and unease at the State of the Union.

I appreciate the independent nature of some Americans who are armed and arming even more, if nothing more than a gesture that they are at least thinking ahead to possible times that may become intolerable.

It isn't so much as having an armed conflict, rather the informational aspect to the Federal Government that there may/will be, resistance should conditions worsen.

I have story-lines of a dozen different scenarios' wherein the nations' infrastructure could be brought to a standstill with a small but determined force that was focused on disrupting the affairs of a nation in no small way.

If I can think 'em up, so can others.

And, my friend, the future has not been writ; not yet, nor is it predictable, as our sophisticated associates love to point out, 'externalities', oftimes guide events in ways one seldom expects.

And so it goes in the Spring of 09.

Amicus

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Economics powers most revolts.

Taxation without representation was America's call to arms in 1776, but what brought the heavy hand of the crown to America was the American smuggling and defiance of British economic policy. GEORGE III virtually sold America to the East India Tea Company, which became a national 'company store' and monopoly for all commerce.

If you sold tea England made you buy it from the East India Tea Company, and then the Tea Company competed with you for the same customers. Imagine being forced to buy all your goods from WAL-MART, then have to compete with them in the same neighborhood, plus pay WAL-MART a tax.

So Americans smuggled cheap tea into the colonies.

The American Civil War was about import tariffs forced on the South, and the location of the first Transcontinental Railroad.

I watched a documentary of Hitler yesterday. Hitler came to power because middle-class Germans were beaten into poverty by the ruinous taxation needed to pay war reparations to France, England, and America. America took every ounce of German gold & silver, Britain hauled off every pig and chunk of coal, and France took every tool and board and brick. So the German middle class was faced with 3 choices: Moscow sponsored communists, home-grown socialists, or Hitler who promised (and delivered) prosperity and relief from the taxes.

America is gonna fracture and split apart. The South & West vs the North and the Left Coast.

 

[Liar]

Won't happen, Ami. Not in your lifetime or mine. There's too much comfort in passing the buck and borrowing from your brother. Too much has changed in the last few decades to preclude a revolution on the scale of 1861-1863.

Agreed. And it's not as if it's even a majority doing that. It's a fringe. There's a lot of grandstanding and shouting and gun toting from the right hand fringe ignoramuses. Because the nature of the right hand fringe ignoramuses is to be loudmouthed and gun toting. (Whereas the the left hand fringe ignoramuses are more about pointless kumbaya, so they don't make as big of a scene.)

But it's drama queen antics, bark and no bite.

 

[amicus]

Seems to be a consensus that nothing will happen. As the flashed from rally to rally around the country, the folks attending didn't look like right wing wierdo's, they were prosperous looking familiies, all ages, children the entire spectrum of middle America.

And, you know what, in comparison to left wing crazies, they were peaceful and exhuberant, in every case.

That Homeland Security is taking notice and branding the fledgling movement as dangerous and stating that military troops coming back might become domestic trouble makers, has an ominous sound to it.

How many days until Independence day?

Amicus

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

AMICUS

You must have me on IGGY too.

No. The violence is coming. Its coming soon. It simply hasnt arrived.

 

[NoJo]

I can see why you're still "in search of the elusive muse", Amicus, if you keep thinking about party politics -- you should try talking and thinking about sex more.

 

[Liar]

I can see why you're still "in search of the elusive muse", Amicus, if you keep thinking about party politics -- you should try talking and thinking about sex more.

Are you sure this is not what he considers sex?