Tag: National Rifle Association

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who is really being protected when you disarm the public?

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CLICK on the above picture to read a survey of current and retired police officers and what they REALLY think about guns in the hands of law abiding citizens.

With all of this talk about gun control, I have to ask this simple question: WHO are we really trying to protect? According to a recent survey of police officers… it seems that if we are really trying to protect people then we should allow law abiding citizens the right to carry.

Speaking of insanity, have you noticed that it is always the places that guns are forbidden that have the most violence. It doesn’t matter if it is a city, a school, a theater or a university ( the latest was a crazy with a knife)… but if someone is looking to hurt others they look for safe, unarmed, soft targets.

So then, who is really being protected when the majority of Americans become disarmed? The answer is quite simple… those with guards and guns.

CLICK to read the survey

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a free people …

Here I am with a Wildebeest from my adventures in South Africa and a "Benefactor" certificate from the NRA.
Here I am with a Wildebeest from my adventures in South Africa and a “Benefactor” certificate from the NRA.

Most of the time I talk about food and family on my blog and I try to stay away from things that upset an evening’s brandy in front of the fire. However, the shrill marketing approach out of Washington is a bit over the top, the New York City uber rich mayor’s latest effort to control the world with his money and local California Senators complaining about gun control all the while bristling with weapons themselves… is unsettling at best.

There is an effort — again out of Washington — to divided and pit people against each other for their own personal gain. They’ve enlisted the usual wacked out celebrities, hypocrites and opportunists to carry water for them on gun control.
One would think getting the country moving forward would be high on the agenda, creating new jobs, factories and the like… but again, I am naive.

So, let me recommend to you that you might like to participate in this discussion by joining the NRA (even if you have never fired a gun) and receiving training and go on a hunt and experience what life and living  is all about. I have a few links to the right that might help you get started!

You have a right called the second amendment … it is worth experiencing & learning more about!

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now thats a bottle opener

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There are bottle openers and there are bottle openers. One type of opener I have admired is a simple 50 caliber shell turned into one. Simple, convenient and always raises a smile or opens someones eye. Some folks actually ask me if it is dangerous or will explode? I have to remind myself that I live near a university where ignorance abounds.

Here are a couple of places to buy such a great opener:

AMAZON.COM

NRA

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Last night, I attended a  Friends of the NRA  fundraising event in Paso Robles. There were a fair few folks who happened to drop by for a tri-tip, bbq’d chicken or ribs dinner. I didn’t win or successfully bid on anything this year, but I did walk away with a couple of bottle openers… which pleased me. Fun times!

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the second amendment protects all our other rights

CLICK on the above photo to hear about the second amendment and gun control
CLICK on the above photo to hear about the second amendment and gun control

If you look around my page, you will notice that I support hunting and the NRA. So, I am saddened by the discussion of gun control as a wedge issue covering the big issues of our time, including our falling economy, reducing opportunities and jobs.

If our country continues on this self destructive path, there will be a greater need for personal protection and not less.

 

 

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finally biting the bullet

finally becoming a life member of the National Rifle Association

I think I was ten years old when I received my first rifle and I still own it! It was a nice little 22 caliber Winchester rifle which was not very expensive then or by today’s standards. However, I did very well against the expensive competition rifles in contests. Since then I have loaned it out to some of the neighbors when they wished to take their kids shooting. Shhhh, many of the ‘Moms’ still don’t know! 😉 Still, I smile when so many of my liberal female neighbors tell me that they plan to run to my house if ‘something bad happens.’

I have always thought that there was risk in the second amendment — the right to bare arms — but I felt there was an even a greater risk and danger to not have it.  I love the story about one of the fears of Imperial Japan on the potential invasion of our country during WWII. They were concerned  that — in America —  there was ‘a gun in every bush.’ Like so many conquerors, felons and brutes, they all prefer safe ‘soft’ targets to armed citizens.

So, as I approach the second half of my life, I wanted to extend my membership and become a ‘life member’ of the  National Rifle Association …. not a big dream , but an honorable one.

For me, I was proud to make this donation and ‘bite the bullet’.

Roger Freberg