Me...spamming? Are you serious?! This was something I got in an email. I put at the bottom of my post that I wasn't sure if this was true or not. Third time. My point in posting it was that it was plausible....that it isn't that far fetched the way things are going in this country. Useless? If I had a dollar for every bit of uselessness I read here, I'd have a lot of $. Do you mean to tell me that every single thing someone posts on here is factualand "useful?" Do you have to have everything at face value, it's literal meaning...all spelled out to have any relevance for you? Is there no concept of symbolism for you all? This is something that could happen if it hasn't already somewhere. Things are moving in this direction...more watchfulness by the government, more involvement, more over seeing and regulating, more and more laws and bans, more taxes and fees, more surveillance and registering of this and that, more tracking of citizens. We're becoming slaves for a select few in power...little sheep-pawns. And this email, false or not could very well be fact just around the corner.
I've been on this forum for a very long time and I have never been accused of spamming. What are you people so afraid of? If you don't like reading something that may not be a fact, if you have no imagination about something someone posts that isn't a fact, can't bear to discuss the concepts or possibilities in it, then don't read it any further, don't bother with it. Why must you mock me with your tin hats and be nasty about it!
And MY OPINION is that to thwart regular citizens' rights to keep and bear arms in any way is interfering with the 2nd amendment. To change the constitution is not something to take lightly. It is not moving with the "times." The constitution is NOT meant to be messed with and disregarded as it is being done now by the politicians. It's just plain criminal and to suggest tampering with the constitution is down right outrageous. Laws can be created or dismantled to move with the "times." But the constitution is the foundation or and what defines America. Or did.
Carrie, you know I really appreciate you as a member here and I love your dogs. You give excellent training advice and I love hearing updates on your chis.
My opinion is that posting these fear mongering e-mails is dangerous. People (many people who aren't members, even) read these threads and take this "information" for fact. They don't look it up, and they pass the information along.
This is what e-mail forwards are for. The senders are HOPING that people will believe the information (especially since they're always written with anecdotes so they must be true), and pass it along. Eventually, you have Uncle Joe at the Christmas dinner table talking about how Obamacare is terrible because it limits gun rights. America is being taken over! It's true because he knew someone who had their gallbladder taken out and had to answer questions about gun ownership. And the truth is, there is NO factual information there.
Obviously, this paragraph is what the forward is trying to get people to pass along. Don't vote for Obama because Obamacare will ban guns!
Either way, it is out there and the second the government gets into your medical records (as they want to under Obamacare) it will become a major issue and will ultimately result in lock and load!!
Yes, there are laws that are limiting gun ownership. Not all of them are bad. Not all of them are good. Putting fake information that is written as fact isn't going to make people aware that this "could" happen.
Aliens could land on earth tomorrow and capture us and make us mine for gold on planet Oooglahdong. This truly COULD happen. Imagine if I posted this.
"My friend Mary's mother's cousin received a communication from outer space. The aliens are coming down to earth and kidnapping all of the humans! Everyone needs to build an underground bunker to hide! THIS IS FOR SERIOUS!!!"
Even if I put "this is something I received in my e-mail and it may not be true" it is STILL passing along a bogus story. When people see
TEXT TEXT TEXT disclaimer TEXT TEXT TEXT they tend to ignore that tiny little disclaimer.
Look at how many people are sucked into horrible car loans and CD of the month clubs. They read what they want to read (the information that's being toted as truth) and ignore the fine print.