Poll: Your passion for our rights

gun rights historyIn today’s poll, we’d like to know about what drives you. Why did you get involved in gun rights? What made you passionate about your right to keep and bear arms? What drives you?

For me, personally, it was leaving the former USSR, helpless, disarmed and at the mercy of heartless Soviets, who felt the Jews were something to grind under their boots. You can read the story here.

But what was it for you? Was it a specific incident? Was it the realization that you alone are responsible for the safety of you and your loved ones? Was it a specific text? What inflamed your passions for this issue?

Poll question is below. Feel free to expound further in comments, especially if none of the choices fit.

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11 thoughts on “Poll: Your passion for our rights”

  1. Fiction which presented a view of the Founders and their views I was never taught in school. That prompted to study the stuff in depth on my own. And that led me to the racist history of gun control, and so forth.

    So it’s all Heinlein’s and L. Neil Smith’s fault.

  2. A little more than 30 years ago, I had to shoot a man to save my life. You can read that story here: http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/?page_id=846

    That incident alone didn’t bring me to where I am today, but it certainly was one of the most important factors. I had always recognized the natural human right (indeed, of all living creatures) to defend themselves at need, with whatever force was required. This, naturally, included any tool or weapon needed. That night made me realize the truth about the gun as being the most effective of those tools, and set me – eventually – on the path to both learn and teach. And I’m still learning!

  3. My study of America’s founding, natural law, and subsequent examination of our current state of affairs. This led me to the realization that we are pretty much in last stand territory. Firearms is all that’s left outside of alt media for speech. They get the guns we know what’s next. Ms. Kenyon knows better than I and it was other first hand accounts that sealed it. I’m not going to any camp. Period.

    A great benefit has been learning how to behave in a polite society around armed folks. Better than any rules or even what my folks instilled. Hat’s off to the gun nuts teaching me what I couldn’t learn anywhere else. Cool.

  4. My Jewish heritage and my knowledge of our tragic history as un-armed victims–along with my refusal to allow others to decide upon my survival !!! דמד

  5. When I read the anti-gun drivel about handguns and the A-R-15 in the 1970’s.
    I wrote a high school English paper on why the anti-gun zealots were wrong,then over a weeks long period of time convinced my teacher- who sided with the anti-gun zealots- that they were wrong.
    That continued in college-where it was much harder to convince the leftist professors that the anti-gun zealots were wrong-only had about a 50-50 success ratio there.
    David Codrea and Aaron Zelman were the first 2 pro-gun writers I read who “got it”.
    I kept on and keep on trying to win the anti-gun zealots over,and continue to write to politicians,local newspapers,and comment on their websites to keep up the pro-gun pro-freedom advocacy.

  6. I voted for the founding documents, which I have known since a very, very young age. But in reality, my vote was tough. I have been a strong advocate for gun rights my entire life, but never made much of an issue of it until the election of Obama and what for some reason just hit me in the face as the last chance we had to stop the loss of our 2nd amendment freedoms and to reverse some of the hatred for us who simply owned guns.
    It seems like we have made some strides, and yet we have so very far to go. And we face an enemy who is without morals.
    This is a great poll, if for no other reason than to remind us of why we fight.

  7. Didn’t have to be any one thing. I was raised around guns all my life. They’re as much a part of life as cars or power tools. Don’t need some pasty would-be master telling me what I can or can’t own.

  8. I was brought up in a household where guns and motorcycles were the ultimate evil. My mom had been a nurse and saw the worst end of both of them. I was not dissuaded and after 1976 as a citizen of MassiveChewshits seeing Smith and Wesson sponsor a ballot initiative to ban handguns in the state, One of two S+W sponsored anti gun initiatives… I got involved… First with GOAL, then the NRA.. I discovered JPFO early in their life and joined, eventually became a life member then joined TZP… I did my best to bring my kids up with a love of guns and freedom. It stuck with two of them … my youngest is a big time supporter of the guy from Vermont… Hard to believe as my grand dad, who I never met, left the Ukraine before their “Obama” Phase ; arriving here in 1907 . I heard stories growing up about him leaving to come to Freedom in America… I’ve got a modest Tool collection and would like to keep it…

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