This Texas Gun Owner Has Been An NRA Member For 46 Years. Now He’s Speaking Out.

[Wyatt earp]

Pesky Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Why didn't the founders also pontificate about automobile and aviation amendments? Because they didn't know jack shit about them. They only wrote about what they knew at the time.

Give it a rest Pokihontas and if you don't like Texas then don't go there.

You'd have real issues at our oldest's school, they have armed guards. GASP!

I surrender.

We beat your ilk 150 years ago...you thought life stopped at "muskets" while we did the repeating rifle thing, then progressed to Gatling guns...see where I'm going with this?

Duh, yeah, and nowhere along the line was the 2nd Amendment ever updated.

It never had to be.

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[Conservative65]

“It’s mind-boggling they could come up with laws like that.”

Bernie Phillip is a 75-year-old Texas grandfather who owns nearly 20 guns ― enough, he says, “to take care of business.” He’s an avid hunter, and has been a National Rifle Association member for 46 years.

But this week, for the first time in his life, Phillip broke with the gun-rights group. He wrote to his state representative urging him to oppose two bills that would loosen restrictions on guns. HB 375 would allow Texans to carry a gun without a permit or license, and HB 560 get rid of gun-free zones, including schools, for people with a license to carry.

“I’m all for our 2nd Amendment rights but these two bills are downright irresponsible,” Phillip wrote in the letter, which has since gone viral on the internet. “I pride myself on gun safety and being a responsible gun owner. Neither of these bills further the cause of making our great state safer for my 5-year-old granddaughter. The thought of another parent being able to carry a gun in my granddaughter’s school when she goes to kindergarten next year is terrifying. There’s just no need for that.”

”It’s insane, no doubt about it,” Phillip said in an interview. “It’s mind-boggling they could come up with laws like that.”

Phillip said he’s discussed the legislation with his hunting buddies, also NRA members. “They’ve said, ‘Oh yeah, that’s ridiculous,’” he said.

Phillip’s daughter, Tricia Gronnevik, who said she was raised to respect gun rights, next week will go to Austin to lobby against the bills with Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America, a gun-safety advocacy group. Phillip won’t travel with her because of physical limitation, but asked his daughter to hand-deliver his letter to his state representative.

“Back when he joined the NRA, it was more of a gun-safety, sportsman organization, and so my dad still has that mentality,” Gronnevik said. “He doesn’t go online, he doesn’t even have an email address.

More: This Texas Gun Owner Has Been An NRA Member For 46 Years. Now He’s Speaking Out.

Amen! I left the NRA when it was hijacked by radicals in 1977.

So you find one out of millions and millions and it speaks for all of them? Funny how you lefties tells us that the whole shouldn't be determined by what one does until you do it.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Pesky Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Why didn't the founders also pontificate about automobile and aviation amendments? Because they didn't know jack shit about them. They only wrote about what they knew at the time.

No they knew the world was changing and they wrote the constitution perfectly.. So the change could happen.

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Yeah, like the Bibles - they left it open to interpretation...forever.

Now you're floundering...which is nothing new

 

[Wyatt earp]

Why didn't the founders also pontificate about automobile and aviation amendments? Because they didn't know jack shit about them. They only wrote about what they knew at the time.

Give it a rest Pokihontas and if you don't like Texas then don't go there.

You'd have real issues at our oldest's school, they have armed guards. GASP!

I surrender.

We beat your ilk 150 years ago...you thought life stopped at "muskets" while we did the repeating rifle thing, then progressed to Gatling guns...see where I'm going with this?

Duh, yeah, and nowhere along the line was the 2nd Amendment ever updated.

Where in the Constitution does it say single shot muskets? Show me

He don't even know a crude repeater was already been in use.

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[Conservative65]

Pesky Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Why didn't the founders also pontificate about automobile and aviation amendments? Because they didn't know jack shit about them. They only wrote about what they knew at the time.

When the founders wrote the Constitution, they spoke nothing of social welfare programs you idiots on the left think the Constitution is full of.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Pesky Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Why didn't the founders also pontificate about automobile and aviation amendments? Because they didn't know jack shit about them. They only wrote about what they knew at the time.

When the founders wrote the Constitution, they spoke nothing of social welfare programs you idiots on the left think the Constitution is full of.

I'd have liked to seen the looks on their faces when someone told them gay marriage was Constitutional

 

[Conservative65]

Pesky Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Yeah, clean your single-shot musket.

Next time you express your opinion, get off the computer and pick up a quill pen and paper and write a letter.

 

[Conservative65]

Pesky Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Why didn't the founders also pontificate about automobile and aviation amendments? Because they didn't know jack shit about them. They only wrote about what they knew at the time.

When the founders wrote the Constitution, they spoke nothing of social welfare programs you idiots on the left think the Constitution is full of.

I'd have liked to seen the looks on their faces when someone told them gay marriage was Constitutional

They were well aware that marriage was a State issue.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Pesky Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Why didn't the founders also pontificate about automobile and aviation amendments? Because they didn't know jack shit about them. They only wrote about what they knew at the time.

When the founders wrote the Constitution, they spoke nothing of social welfare programs you idiots on the left think the Constitution is full of.

I'd have liked to seen the looks on their faces when someone told them gay marriage was Constitutional

They were well aware that marriage was a State issue.

Yeah they were big on State's rights

 

[PredFan]

“It’s mind-boggling they could come up with laws like that.”

Bernie Phillip is a 75-year-old Texas grandfather who owns nearly 20 guns ― enough, he says, “to take care of business.” He’s an avid hunter, and has been a National Rifle Association member for 46 years.

But this week, for the first time in his life, Phillip broke with the gun-rights group. He wrote to his state representative urging him to oppose two bills that would loosen restrictions on guns. HB 375 would allow Texans to carry a gun without a permit or license, and HB 560 get rid of gun-free zones, including schools, for people with a license to carry.

“I’m all for our 2nd Amendment rights but these two bills are downright irresponsible,” Phillip wrote in the letter, which has since gone viral on the internet. “I pride myself on gun safety and being a responsible gun owner. Neither of these bills further the cause of making our great state safer for my 5-year-old granddaughter. The thought of another parent being able to carry a gun in my granddaughter’s school when she goes to kindergarten next year is terrifying. There’s just no need for that.”

”It’s insane, no doubt about it,” Phillip said in an interview. “It’s mind-boggling they could come up with laws like that.”

Phillip said he’s discussed the legislation with his hunting buddies, also NRA members. “They’ve said, ‘Oh yeah, that’s ridiculous,’” he said.

Phillip’s daughter, Tricia Gronnevik, who said she was raised to respect gun rights, next week will go to Austin to lobby against the bills with Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America, a gun-safety advocacy group. Phillip won’t travel with her because of physical limitation, but asked his daughter to hand-deliver his letter to his state representative.

“Back when he joined the NRA, it was more of a gun-safety, sportsman organization, and so my dad still has that mentality,” Gronnevik said. “He doesn’t go online, he doesn’t even have an email address.

More: This Texas Gun Owner Has Been An NRA Member For 46 Years. Now He’s Speaking Out.

Amen! I left the NRA when it was hijacked by radicals in 1977.

that's his opinion, who gives a shit? Time to give more money to the NRA.

 

[Conservative65]

Pesky Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Why didn't the founders also pontificate about automobile and aviation amendments? Because they didn't know jack shit about them. They only wrote about what they knew at the time.

When the founders wrote the Constitution, they spoke nothing of social welfare programs you idiots on the left think the Constitution is full of.

I'd have liked to seen the looks on their faces when someone told them gay marriage was Constitutional

They were well aware that marriage was a State issue.

Yeah they were big on State's rights

According to the 10th Amendment they were. Funny how the left constantly applies the 2nd in literal form but refuses to do so with the 10th.

 

[whitehall]

How on earth did the radical left come up with a letter from a 75 year old NRA member addressed to his state representative in Texas and what freaking difference does it make?

 

[Rustic]

“It’s mind-boggling they could come up with laws like that.”

Bernie Phillip is a 75-year-old Texas grandfather who owns nearly 20 guns ― enough, he says, “to take care of business.” He’s an avid hunter, and has been a National Rifle Association member for 46 years.

But this week, for the first time in his life, Phillip broke with the gun-rights group. He wrote to his state representative urging him to oppose two bills that would loosen restrictions on guns. HB 375 would allow Texans to carry a gun without a permit or license, and HB 560 get rid of gun-free zones, including schools, for people with a license to carry.

“I’m all for our 2nd Amendment rights but these two bills are downright irresponsible,” Phillip wrote in the letter, which has since gone viral on the internet. “I pride myself on gun safety and being a responsible gun owner. Neither of these bills further the cause of making our great state safer for my 5-year-old granddaughter. The thought of another parent being able to carry a gun in my granddaughter’s school when she goes to kindergarten next year is terrifying. There’s just no need for that.”

”It’s insane, no doubt about it,” Phillip said in an interview. “It’s mind-boggling they could come up with laws like that.”

Phillip said he’s discussed the legislation with his hunting buddies, also NRA members. “They’ve said, ‘Oh yeah, that’s ridiculous,’” he said.

Phillip’s daughter, Tricia Gronnevik, who said she was raised to respect gun rights, next week will go to Austin to lobby against the bills with Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America, a gun-safety advocacy group. Phillip won’t travel with her because of physical limitation, but asked his daughter to hand-deliver his letter to his state representative.

“Back when he joined the NRA, it was more of a gun-safety, sportsman organization, and so my dad still has that mentality,” Gronnevik said. “He doesn’t go online, he doesn’t even have an email address.

More: This Texas Gun Owner Has Been An NRA Member For 46 Years. Now He’s Speaking Out.

Amen! I left the NRA when it was hijacked by radicals in 1977.

Washington Redskin
Firearm ownership is an right not a privilege. asswipe

 

[Rustic]

Pesky Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Why didn't the founders also pontificate about automobile and aviation amendments? Because they didn't know jack shit about them. They only wrote about what they knew at the time.

 

[PredFan]

Pesky Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Why didn't the founders also pontificate about automobile and aviation amendments? Because they didn't know jack shit about them. They only wrote about what they knew at the time.

Not only is this the most idiotic point ever, it's probably been the most debunked. Only an idiot would bring this nonsense up again.

 

[OKTexas]

Pesky Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Why didn't the founders also pontificate about automobile and aviation amendments? Because they didn't know jack shit about them. They only wrote about what they knew at the time.

Wrong, multi-shot pistols were designed in the 1500's. They knew advancements were inevitable.

 

[OKTexas]

Sanity and soundness are not concepts to which most gun rights advocates relate. They only see doomsday scenarios from a "what if" frame of mind.

Yeah, I bet you have car and home insurance for the same reason.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Pesky Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Why didn't the founders also pontificate about automobile and aviation amendments? Because they didn't know jack shit about them. They only wrote about what they knew at the time.

Wrong, multi-shot pistols were designed in the 1500's. They knew advancements were inevitable.

It's like us that don't know and realize liberals will turn into cyborgs, that's a no brainer and inevitable

 

[initforme]

Pure troll thread. Nobody was ever going to take gun rights away. Its in the constitution. God some folk in this nation are beyond stupid. No wonder our wages are so ungodly low. Why pay an inferior thinker? I laugh at those inbreds.

 

[SavannahMann]

Pesky Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Why didn't the founders also pontificate about automobile and aviation amendments? Because they didn't know jack shit about them. They only wrote about what they knew at the time.

Pfui.

Freedom of speech did not include vulgar language. Does that mean that anyone who uses any of a number of swear words is not protected by the Free Speech? Satanism, Wicca, and a number of other religions were not protected by Freedom of Religion when it was passed.

Cruel and Unusual punishment did not prohibit floggings, but it does today.

So are you comfortable with going back to the original intent, the original standards applied to those freedoms with all the Rights, or just the Second Amendment?

I'm sure the founders would have objected to a number of the Rights we accept as protected today. Unless you think that the founders foresaw the right to an Abortion and intended it to be protected.

Because when the Constitution was written, private citizens could purchase cannon. I mean big powerful cannons, far more powerful than anything you could buy in a store today. We had privateers, ships that were privately owned, with privately owned cannons, that raided on enemy commerce.

So the idea that the Founders only intended the 2nd amendment to apply to flint lock rifles is laughable. So if you want to go with only that which was available at the time, then say goodbye to the Interenet, because it didn't exist and freedom of speech does not apply.

Television was not imagined, so all televised news reports must be stopped because Freedom of the Press does not apply to spoken words. The photograph is also not protected, but sketches and paintings are approved.

That's what's wrong with your asinine argument. No founders imagined that Playboy and Penthouse would wrap themselves in Freedom of Speech.

Look what it's gotten us so far. Think about this for a moment. It is a crime to hire a Prostitute. But if I hire the prostitue to be an "actress" and set up some cameras, then I'm making a movie, and she is now an actress. That's perfectly legal.

So get off your asinine argument already. Unless you want to go back to the days of Printing Press being the only way for news to be distributed.