Civil war battle lines being drawn as Gun MFG move to Pro Constitutanal states

[buckfvr]

Not as far-fetched as you think.  A few of the comments are funny, but most of it sounds true.  I've lived long enough to see the change in the country.  Most of you haven't.

 

I know many, many guys who echo this thought.......its coming, and its inevitable.    To think otherwise, is missing all the signs.  Gun Control is ultimately about disarming America.......that will be the trigger.    

[magnanimous_j]

Not as far-fetched as you think.  A few of the comments are funny, but most of it sounds true.  I've lived long enough to see the change in the country.  Most of you haven't.

 

I know many, many guys who echo this thought...

As a person gets older, they slowly lose touch with the mainstream culture. Fashions and trends start to become foreign to them; scary. It becomes very easy to start thinking of the culture as deteriorating and the past, when they were synced with it, as a better time. Nostalgia can be comforting, but it can also be a self-defeating mechanism that ignores the problems of the past and treats the future with anxiety and dread, instead of viewing it as opportunity, which it is.

Some people born in 1890 viewed the 50’s as the end of times. But if you were born in the 30’s or 40’s, the 50’s were the golden age today. One day, old people will complain that no one makes good music like Kesha and Skrillex anymore. Likewise, there were old men in the 1880 who thought the telegraph was only good for pornography and the government bossing them around.

Same as it ever was.

[Special T]

As people get older they think about HISTORY. History repeats itself normally just outside of a life span or 2... While i agree that nestalge is comforting and can be a crutch it can also be a valuable teacher... There is a saying "a smart man learns from his mistakes, a wise man learns fro the mistakes of others."

I agree that this writer is out there on the edge, and could be a home schooler.
Like you i have had a bit of experience with home schoolers. IMO there are 2 disticnt crowds. Those who want to put in the work so that thier kids get a superior education, and those who are homeschoolers because thier kids are no longer allowed to attend for some reason... LOTs of kids that have behavioral probles are in the home schooling program.   On eof the kids i grew up in came from a home school family but ended up going to highschool. He was smart as whip, and it took him some time to adjust. I would consider him and his brothers a perfect model of how home schooling could work. 

[buckfvr]

And then there's those who haven't lived long enough to learn from lifes experiences,  to go along with having had common sense educated out of them.

[Worldhunter]

Pretty ridiculous article and post. Be careful what you post online, you may end up on a government crazy list.

[3nails]

What was it about the homeschooling comment that put the cherry on the sundae?

I went to several small, Christian schools from grade 4-12. A lot of home schooled kids came and went during that time and I now consider it one of the meanest things you can possibly do to your kid. First off, some of them were VERY book smart (as is the stereotype). However, some of them were dumb a sticks and didn’t know anything. Almost ALL had huge problems socializing and relating to other kids, having spent their developmental years in their weird family microcosm. Generally what would happen is the boys would get really rude as a defense mechanism, and the girls would either get really shy or in some cases, dangerously promiscuous, being unused to any male attention and having zero skills in dealing with it. I felt bad for them.

Anyway, being the close knit, tiny schools that they were, all the families knew each other and most of the Home School parents were total whack jobs. Weird anti-government types (it was the Clinton years), NWO conspiracy nuts, almost open racists, creepy cultists (with optional sexual abuse package), and a generous smattering of good old fashioned idiots. We car pooled with one family who got mad at me for insisting that exoplanets existed and “was this close” to pulling her kids from the school because she thought that DNA didn’t really exist and was a lie meant to propagate the fallacy of evolution. Oh yeah, and drums were designed to put you into a trance so the devil would have an easier time getting into your soul.  Even Christian rock was pure uncut evil. She made us listen to these grainy tapes of organ music and Church choirs. Not even cool Church music like the monks chanting and those haunting hymns from the early middle ages.

My point being, when you are so fringe that even our hyper-conservative little Christian schools were too liberal for you, the problem is not society, it’s you. It’s people who are terrified of the world passing it on to their kids, who will inevitably suffer because of it. So when I read this article from this guy who was busting his zipper at the thought of a civil war and then threw in the bit about home schooling, I thought “Yup, that figures.”

I assume since you took issue with my comment, you either home school or are thinking about it. In all seriousness, please consider the negatives. I’ll tell you a hundred stories if you want to hear them.

I took no issue at all with your comment. I was just curious. Thank you for the reply.

[Bean Counter]

What was it about the homeschooling comment that put the cherry on the sundae?

I went to several small, Christian schools from grade 4-12. A lot of home schooled kids came and went during that time and I now consider it one of the meanest things you can possibly do to your kid. First off, some of them were VERY book smart (as is the stereotype). However, some of them were dumb a sticks and didn’t know anything. Almost ALL had huge problems socializing and relating to other kids, having spent their developmental years in their weird family microcosm. Generally what would happen is the boys would get really rude as a defense mechanism, and the girls would either get really shy or in some cases, dangerously promiscuous, being unused to any male attention and having zero skills in dealing with it. I felt bad for them.....

Homeschooling has changed a lot, Maggy. With the advent of the internet not only are curriculums much better but there is much more networking amongst homeschooling families. Many that I know of arrange co-op days once a week where their kids get to interact, and then they do field trips and activity days on top of that. Socialization with one's peers (or lack there of) used to be a blight to homeschooling, but IMHO I'll take it over indoctrination into secularl liberalism in the pubic school system anyday. 

Nevertheless, my children are mine. I will make the educational decision about them that I see fit. They are not yours, and they are not the communities.  Contrast that with America's leftists, who after slaughtering their own children in abortion mills, now want to claim ownership of mine. View this scripted, reviewed, and approved message from MSNBC.  Note how it wasn't an off the cuff comment in a speech, but obviously something that was produced and likely reviewed by at least someone in management.

MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry » All Your Kids Belong To Us

[Special T]

LOL I like the "Lean Forward" a the end...  Should i be asking what comes next? 

[snowpack]

LOL I like the "Lean Forward" a the end...  Should i be asking what comes next? 

Lean Forward is PC speak for Bend Over......

[Heredoggydoggy]

LOL I like the "Lean Forward" a the end...  Should i be asking what comes next? 

Lean Forward is PC speak for Bend Over......

Or to be specific--Bend Over And Grab Your Ankles....   

[csaaphill]

Good stuff hell ya traitors all. Love that language myself.