Saturday night I was hanging out with some friends. Drinking some brews, shooting pool. And somehow the topic of gun control and the .gov came into play. the two I were arguing with are both pro 2A, one of whom is a gun owner and Ive been to the range with. basically the conversation turned into a full out debate and it was myself vs. the other two.
Long story short, their argument was despite how much we don't want the government to run our lives, its going to happen. 'they have bigger guns, blah blah.' 'even if the people resisted, they don't stand a chance, blah blah' 'the government has the power of the military' now here i am trying to defend myself and stand up for what i believe in and how id rather die defending myself and the rights i were born with, then take orders from big brother trying to shelter me more and more as i get older. then the words 'the constitution is a 200+ year old document and times were different' came out of my friends mouth. (the one who owns a handgun) this sent me over the edge.
at this point i feel almost betrayed, i guess you could say, by this particular friend. After all the firearms conversations that we've had, i thought we met eye to eye. it seems as though he has the mentality that hell just abide by whatever the higher power has to say as long as he can still own a firearm. i spoke with his father once who is a veteran and also owns many firearms. Interestingly enough, his father doesn't 'understand why anyone would need or want a 30rd magazine' the conversation ended shortly after that. for obvious reasons.
so its not much of a shock that he would think this way when we had the argument. but i made it a firm point to them, that i STRONGLY disagree with all of his statements.
just had to let that out. and id like to hear anyones input. anyone else have friends like that?
Long story short, their argument was despite how much we don't want the government to run our lives, its going to happen. 'they have bigger guns, blah blah.' 'even if the people resisted, they don't stand a chance, blah blah' 'the government has the power of the military' now here i am trying to defend myself and stand up for what i believe in and how id rather die defending myself and the rights i were born with, then take orders from big brother trying to shelter me more and more as i get older. then the words 'the constitution is a 200+ year old document and times were different' came out of my friends mouth. (the one who owns a handgun) this sent me over the edge.
at this point i feel almost betrayed, i guess you could say, by this particular friend. After all the firearms conversations that we've had, i thought we met eye to eye. it seems as though he has the mentality that hell just abide by whatever the higher power has to say as long as he can still own a firearm. i spoke with his father once who is a veteran and also owns many firearms. Interestingly enough, his father doesn't 'understand why anyone would need or want a 30rd magazine' the conversation ended shortly after that. for obvious reasons.
so its not much of a shock that he would think this way when we had the argument. but i made it a firm point to them, that i STRONGLY disagree with all of his statements.
just had to let that out. and id like to hear anyones input. anyone else have friends like that?