I'd like to have a few face-to-face words with this system-lacky Langley person! In the words of Bruce Campbell, "BY GOD, LET'S GIVE 'EM WHAT FOR!" [;D]
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I got into guns in my early teens in the early '90s. I'm 21 now - a high screwl and college grad with an Associate's Degree in graphic design. I graduated high screwl in '98 and I remember the anti-gun climate back then. I weep for the children of this miserable age [>(]. I got in trouble constantly because I read Guns & Ammo (a tame zine if you ask me) during lunch and study hall. I resisted the authority of the politically-correct totalitarian system-lackies who called themselves "teachers." I was the monkey wrench in their machine.
One time, when I was either a Sophomore or Junior, my English teacher (a pacifist Menonite) had us do a project on gun control. Of course, being an advocate of order and oppression, she fixed the project a certain way so we'd have to agree with her. An naturally, being a destroyer of order and an advocate of freedom, I opposed.
She gave us pamphlets to read that contained 10 articles on guns. 9 out of those 10 were anti and only one was pro. She had the pro one X'ed out and told us not to read it. So I did anyway. Of course, she didn't like the direction I went with my project, much to my delight. Opposing the forces of order and corruption was (and will always be) more important to me than good grades.
Another time, I got called down to the office because someone got it into their head that I had a shortened M-79 grenade launcher in my bag!
All throughout screwl, I got picked on because I was short and weird and just plain different from everyone else. Add to that my affinity for firearms, 1st person video games, and heavy metal music, and you have what the State claims is a psychological disaster waiting to happen. Yet here I am today and I've never ever murdered or harmed anyone! I can't even bring myself to spank my dogs! I'm like Jar Jar. "Meesa haten crunchy!" But even the peaceful Jar Jar fights when he has to.
It doesn't matter to "they." All that matters to them is whether or not you fit the psychological profile of a sociopath - something that has a loose definition to begin with. These people are feeding the problem and exploiting the isolation of troubled teens at the same time they persecute us and say we're to blame. A person is responsible for their own decisions.
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We're this era's despised scapegoats - outcasts because we see the truth in a world that prefers lies. It's time to RISE!
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In brevity, I think Pantera says it best...
All of us
One of us
All of us
Dominate
And take the mother****ing world!
Mass prediction
Unification
Breathing life into our lungs
Every creed and every kind
To give us depth for strength!