I only made what I think is a valuable legal observation from Heller. All this legal mumbo jumbo is pretty important.
My mind isn't made up about open carry with this county resolution. It isn't going to matter what my mind says either. Same with yours. What's going to matter is if we support the board or not, if we show up at these meetings, and if we pack the damned place continually before and at the time of the vote.
One of the board members suggested having a rally in Rockford. I think he's got a great idea.
I'm certainly not going to be pushing anything on the board. I'll just be working with them and submitting information to them in hopes that they might be able to put the info to good use.
Instead of focusing on what could go wrong, why not focus on what could go right? I think something great went right today -- SAFR. Let's get some more rights going. It's time to park the namby pamby attitute of "that could backfire" at the bottom of Lake Michigan where it belongs. There's a difference between rational worries and irrational worries. Wazzle, unless you can give an example of when I was a "hindrance" to the movement, back off please. I got no problem with anything you do, nor am I going to crap on your idea, so don't crap on mine? I was talking to a few people at SAFR about this improper attitude exhibited by too many gun owners.
WE'RE WINNING -- WE'RE WINNING -- WE'RE WINNING
Let's start acting like winners. Winners don't second-guess everything they do and worry about that inevitable mistake. Winners make so many of the right moves that no matter what it counteracts any slight mistakes. We're all in this together, and we can all be winners now. We just won something in court (at least it's a short-term win), so let's go out and win some more.
I want to be a winner on everyone's team as well. I may have my own strategy, and it's important to have individuals out there going from different angles. This is what makes this a grassroots movement. There's no one group, organization, website, committee, or anything else. It's all of us. I'm always trying to work on being a team player. Part of that is letting people go their own way. I can't remember the last time I told someone "not" to do something. People like to tell me that all the time. I get this from the anti-rights people, so I shouldn't be getting it from people here. Any concerns haven't proven valid past, present, and they won't future either. Yes, I've been arrested. And apparently I've lost respect from a few people for that reason. I've certainly lost trust from some. That's a damn shame, really. You shouldn't turn your back on someone who's fighting with you for the same cause unless they've done something WRONG -- meaning they've hurt someone, threatened someone, or otherwise violated or infringed upon the rights of another. I haven't done that, and I won't. Anyways, I appreciate the people who came up to me today and thanked me. I also appreciate the MANY people I saw wearing fannypacks. That's excellent!!! There was no negative response -- there wasn't really any reaction or notice. A few of us talked about fannypacks, but that's about it. No looks, no suspicion from police, no horrified fashion designers
Any discussion on "pushing" the open carry issue ends here and now. I just spent the entire day with a county board member and the open carry thing was never even brought up, except for joking how Pearl is our new open carry advocate because of her quote