Wapiti wrote:Look I must confess, and this isn't personal to anyone, is that being generally optimistic is exactly the opposite of what's needed.
It's a mask for people to sit back and do SFA, because they want to keep any perceived scrutiny from themselves.
The disarmament agenda carries on when people use this as an excuse for doing nothing. Sorry if this offends anyone, but one fact of being human is that when it's true it offends them as the truth hurts, those who use this as an excuse are the enemy within.
For me, it would be easy to be like everyone else on the land to throw urban based shooters under the bus and just draw a line between us.
As MOST (from both sides) do. Take sides. This is their evil plan.
Until they want something. Then it's all sweetness.
These evil socialist politicians have done this now, separated farmers from city shooters with the firearm limits. Don't believe me?
Searching comments on the net already show their agenda is working - I see on open gun forums city shooters are denigrating farmers for Albanese's back-door boys' distinction between us all. "pricks have 10 guns, we only get 4" "they've backstabbed us"
Bullsh*t, this is a definite splitting agenda and far out, people need to switch their brains on.
Even Sun Tsu said this 2000 years ago- basically separate your factions by stealth, jealousy and weaken them, and you will always win.
all fair points mate , and sun tsu was basically using common sense and logic to achieve his objectives with shrewd planning and fore thought. all pretty rare things in this modern world . having grown up before the internet and mobile phones, i really think society has dumbed down and is easily manipulated these days . as you rightly point out a unified ,organised shooters front would change things for the better , instead of the petty behaviour that some carry on with . i believe "divide and conquer" was used by Julius Caeser and rome in general to great effect .
i prefer to take positive action on this topic , as well as try to find the silver lining in the cloud through optimism and a positive attitude . being optimistic is what drives me to travel, hunt and shoot , being a hard core realist is depressing and can push some to give shooting away thinking "what's the point, we're screwed ". a negative , defeatist attitude can make you lose before you've even tried . i also tell myself one day the "right now" will be the "good old days" , so i try to make the most of the present




