The greatest threat to gun ownership is right wing nut jobs. People for the most part are not concerned with the typical American gun owner. People are however worried about the abject nut jobs who parade in fast food joints with military style weapons just because it is their right. They also h**e wacko conspiracy theory folks threatening to take the country by force. Run of the mill tough guy wanna be heros with "protected by smith and Wesson" stickers on cars and front doors make many folks cringe at the easy availability of powerful weapons. All of us who are gun owners owe it to ourselves to tell the knuckleheads amongst us to knock off their puffery, false bravado and generally obnoxious behavior. Clowns like Ted Neugent have done more for the gun control movement than Sara Brady, it is time to prove to the public that a well armed socoiety is a polite socoiety by behaving like gentlemen rather than menaceing loudmouthed fools.

EVER SINCE I WAS A CHILD, I'VE ALWAYS HAD A FEAR OF SOMEONE UNDER MY BED AT NIGHT.

SO I WENT TO A SHRINK AND TOLD HIM: “I've got problems. Every time I go to bed I think there's somebody under it. I'm scared. I think I'm going crazy.”;

“Just put yourself in my hands for one year, said the shrink. Come talk to me three times a week and we should be able to get rid of those fears.”;

“How much do you charge?”;

“Eighty dollars per visit,”; replied the doctor.

“I'll sleep on it,”; I said.

Six months later the doctor met me on the street. “Why didn't you come to see me about those fears you were having?”; He asked.

“Well, Eighty bucks a visit, three times a week for a year, is $12,480.00. A bartender cured me for $10.00. I was so happy to have saved all that money that I went and bought me a new pickup truck.”;

“Is that so?”; With a bit of an attitude he said, “and how, may I ask, did a bartender cure you?”;

“He told me to cut the legs off the bed. Ain't nobody under there now.”

FORGET THE SHRINKS..

HAVE A DRINK & TALK TO A BARTENDER!

IT'S ALWAYS BETTER TO GET A SECOND OPINION.

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For better or for worse here is my thinking:

1. You said it - we must start working together. This will be the hardest part because people have been so brainwashed by their party that getting agreements on T***H will be the HARDEST part.
2. We JOIN in our common complaints - and I am not sure even what they are. It seems if the Rs want it, the Ds are determined they will NOT have it, and vice versa.
3. We must learn to think somewhat alike as to what the US Constitution says and what it means. I find tremendous divides re what this great but easy to understand document says.
4. We could do polls, but too many are brainwashed or afraid of disfavor to answer t***hfully.
5. If enough of us could see eye to eye on specific issues, we could march on DC once a week to make our demands.
6. We could engage in civil disobedience
7. 100% of us could refuse to file income taxes - and be prepared for the reign of charges that would be brought against us.
8. We could all decide what REALLY IS IMPORTANT and WHAT IS PARTY GOODIES.
9. I favor kicking all political parties out of the mix - they cause a lot more trouble than they are worth.
10. I favor knocking off the rhetoric all of us engage in and start talking seriously with a goal in mind - and that goal would NOT BE TO DECIMATE EACH OTHER, BUT TO DECIDE WHAT OUR COMMON INTERESTS ARE.
11. We need to determine what each person will NOT give in on, and go from there. That would not mean that other issues would have to be off the table.
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I am game for just about anything to get DC off our backs, out of our pocketbooks, and out of our lives. Their jobs are to see to the nation, NOT TO SEE TO THE CITIZENS.