Wake Up America!

First off.....I'm going to start off by saying if you don't believe in gun ownership or gun rights just stop reading this right here.  I have listened to so much crap about gun control over the last few days….I am ready to jump on my horse and grab a rope……if you know what I mean!  What has happened to our nation?  Do people really believe that a government can control something that has been in our heritage since before we were a nation, and is woven into the world's greatest document......our U.S. Constitution?  I've taught history for a few years in the public school system and have been an avid reader of World, United States, and Oklahoma history longer than that.  If you don't learn history, you are bound to repeat the mistakes of others who have preceded you!

I have personally had the unique opportunity to travel this world a bit.  I have been to Israel where when I visited in 2001, the entire country was on active reserve.  Everyone had either a pistol on their hip or an Uzi-Machine gun on their shoulder........and I don't mean a few people, I mean everyone!  When I would go to the hotel people had guns, when I would go to the restaurants people had guns, when I would go to the Ag Embassy and work.......people had guns. Matter of fact about every 30 minutes or so a helicopter gunship would hover around the embassy just keeping an eye on things.  I was there for around 7 days or so and it impacted me profoundly!  The young Israeli men I worked with told me that this is the way it is; they have to be ready at a moment’s notice.  They also related how without guns, Israel would be at the mercy of their mortal enemies who are within a few miles either which way of their homeland.  Guns meant protection, safety, and a relative feeling of being able to operate in their society while at the same time being subjected to hostilities all around them.

In South Africa, you can own a gun but it is a long and drawn out process.  And then, you can only have 200 rounds of ammunition, period.  I have been to South Africa 6 times since 2001 and have witnessed through the lives of several farmers the way life is there.  Guns mean protection, matter of fact; over 250+ (according to some sources) farmers have been killed by roving bands of the native peoples since Apartheid ended in 1994 in that country.  I have been running, literally, on some paths throughout the countryside whereas I would come upon 5 or more native peoples and later wondered what I would have done if I would have not been able to outrun them….not that they chased me, just what the heck was I thinking at the time.  The farmers relate to me how our country, the United States of America, is the last bastion of democracy in the World.  If we fall, then this world is in for some serious issues for future generations!  They’ve also related to me how as an American we are tolerating too much outside and inside pressures to give into the rest of the world.  This could very well be our downfall if we don’t stop with all this infighting! 

Do not misunderstand me, I am 100% for gun ownership and rights……but again let’s go about this in a manner that’s consistent with what our heritage is.  Remember, the winners always…….not sometimes, but always write the history books!  Don’t just believe something just because it’s in print…..study it out…..learn what other sources have to say about the topic.  I do not consider myself a conspiracy theorist, just someone who will give the gun grabbing, goofy-ass dingbats something to think about if they step onto my land someday thinking they can take my heritage from me.  I honestly never thought in my lifetime that we would be having these conversations about one of our most precious of American rights!

Besides the fact, have any of the news agencies reported on the number of stories in this country whereas a shooting was stopped by someone WHO had a gun?  Not very many, but they are out there……..I beginning to believe some folks when I hear that the majority of the news media have an outright agenda, and the way it’s looking that agenda isn’t in many Oklahomans best interest!  Thank God above I live in the Great State of Oklahoma!  I’m proud to be a God-believing, gun-toting, country-boy from this part of the world!

Amen………and pass the ammunition! J

Billy Ray