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by VMI77
Mon Nov 03, 2014 3:38 pm
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: CSGV Continues Attack on PC Sec. 30.06
Replies: 43
Views: 6415

Re: CSGV Continues Attack on PC Sec. 30.06

ScottDLS wrote:
gringo pistolero wrote:What's the problem with education? I have been hearing for years that companies intentionally post bogus signs. If that's true, they will continue to do so. If that's a lie, then the companies will have the opportunity to correct their mistake.

We don't want to ignore the wishes of property owners like OCT extremists, do we?
Yes actually I DO want to ignore the wishes of property owners. When I enter a business (open to the public) I do not want to honor their wishes for no gays or Democrats to enter. They "theoretically" have the right to bar me (gay Democrat) under Texas law (by posting a sign). And I understand this. However, I do not believe that they should have the right to invoke the criminal power of the State to have me arrested. If asked to leave due to my "gender identification" or "political affiliation" or "carry status" I will leave. If a business properly posts IAW 30.06 I will not enter while carrying a handgun under authority of my CHL. If a business posts ("legally" under PC 30.05) against my gender, political, or gun preferences...I will proceed according to my understanding of US law.
I agree in principle, but the value I find in these signs is that they tell me where not to spend my money.
by VMI77
Wed Jul 23, 2014 9:57 am
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: CSGV Continues Attack on PC Sec. 30.06
Replies: 43
Views: 6415

Re: CSGV Continues Attack on PC Sec. 30.06

JP171 wrote:
esxmarkc wrote:Sadly, I read each and every comment.

The lack of education on concealed carry and it's intent, the incredible track record of CHL holders and the fact that they likely stand next to and armed CHL soccer moms in the checkout line at the local supermarket every week are all ideas to which they are totally oblivious.

All they can ask is "Why would anyone need to carry a weapon into a restaurant targeted toward kids entertainment?"

I can guarantee that these are all people that if posed with the question: "Who is responsible for the safety and well being of your spouse and children?" They would answer "The police." These are the type of people that believe someone else or some magic entity is in control of everything important in their lives.

The safety and well being of my family is my responsibility - and this is why I carry. This most basic and simple idea is as foreign to these people as quantum physics is to a goat.

Here in Texas we have built massive internationally respected medical centers, landed men on the moon, pioneered the development of integrated circuits and continue to pioneer methods that produce the lions share of energy that runs this country yet they see us as knuckle dragging neanderthals.

How do you reach these people? Why are they so alienated from the core basic principles of self-reliability and self-accountability that make up the cornerstone of what it means to be free?

You don't. They have been willingly programed to behave a certain way very much like Pavlov's dogs, since the programming was willing it is most certainly irreversible. This type of thinking behavior is the same as what Jim Jones did in Guyana and nothing any of us are able to do will change it, you can look up the statistics on cults and find that its something like less than 3 percent can ever be helped to recover from the psychological and emotional programming that is done at most of them, simply because its willing and not forced
"Willingly" strikes me as a rather passive description. Enthusiastically isn't quite right either, but their whole identity is wrapped up in their chosen ideology and desire to be part of the tribe. They are what Eric Hoffer called "the true believer." Not only would changing traumatically shatter their personal identity, it would result in ostracization from the tribe, and not only do most people strongly desire to be part of something greater than themselves, they fear being alone. The need to conform to the ideology of the tribe is not limited to the left, but is common to every ideological grouping that is tribal in nature. Not many people are psychologically capable of challenging the "norms" of their particular tribe. They've chosen to believe what they do because it is emotionally comforting and buffers what can be a very harsh reality.

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