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Examiner.com is conducting a special project, starting today, asking their contributors to come up with topical New Year's resolutions.
On the surface, I thought this would be something better left to others--for instance health-related Examiners. But it didn't take much mulling to realize this is also a perfect opportunity to think up some resolutions for old, new and potential gun owners.
Let's see if I can come up with one a day between now and New Year's. I don't expect readers to do them all, but you certainly ought to be able to make and keep one.
Here's the first resolution for your consideration:
I will attend an Appleseed event.
Here are a couple of my write-ups on them so that you'll know what it's about and why you should participate:
Sheriff hosting rifle training shows proper mindset toward gun owners
Click here to visit their website to learn more, including locations and schedules for upcoming training sessions.
Y'know, this is going to be fun. I don't think I'm going to have any trouble at all putting together a second column every day over the next three weeks.
Also see: Giving Thanks – At An Appleseed Shoot
Comments
This weekend in Toccoa, GA. I plan on being there. Looking forward to it.
Having attended my first Appleseed in April, I heartily encourage anyone, whether experienced in shooting or just starting out, to attend one of these events. If you have a semi-auto .22, you can even do so without a high ammo cost.
Ultimately, $70 for two days of rifle instruction, and the telling of important historical facts about Lexington and Concord is far less than you'd pay anywhere else for firearms training.
You owe it to yourself to go take a look at the Appleseed web site and see when the next event is going to be held near you. Learning to shoot from an unimproved position is a very important skill for any gun-owners.
I've attended several Appleseed events, and enjoy them very much. Problem is, there are only a few a year within reach.
What to do...
My new year's resolution:
To reload more rounds than I shoot.
[grin]
Don't just go to an Appleseed event, but take someone with you as well. Preferably a Fudd or someone else who is on the fence about the real meaning behind the Second Amendment.
Got a couple of topical resolution suggestions right off the bat.
(Resolutions Topical. In netspeak that would be TopRes’s or TR’s.)
In the comment section on Chris Knox’s article
‘Giving Thanks ---At An Appleseed Shooting Event
ammoland.com/2009/12/10/appleseed-shooting-event/
Is a posted copy of ‘A PROCLAMATION’
This year before I attend another Appleseed shoot, I’m going to a local printer and have them print me copies on something that looks like scrolled out parchment paper and take them to the shoot with me for handouts.
Also, this year (as I have for the last three or so,) where I normally fly "Old Glory" I’ll put up my “Don’t Tread On Me” Gadsden on 19 April.
Now if your making a KISS list of TR’s to put on a Special Projects Page, I’ll put mine this way. Copy and Paste as follows:
Hand out copies of ‘A PROCLAMATION’ at Appleseed shoots.
Fly the Gadsden on 19 April.
Do even more this year to
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS * REMEMBER OUR VETERANS
David, three years ago I also made a New Year's Resolution to attend an Appleseed. I wrote about it on Ohioans For Concealed Carry news webpage entitled "Are you a Rifleman or a Cook?".
Now a couple years later I'm the OH State Coordinator for Appleseed and a Shoot Boss! I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
I was never into guns or shooting. My son at age twelve requested permission to attend rifle safety in his school. The class emphasized gun safety and was apparently very well done. He persuaded his Dad to take him deer hunting a couple times but fortunately they didn't shoot anything. His Dad wasn't interested in guns whatsoever. I heard about Columbine but it didn't make much of an impression on me. Then this year I started learning that things aren't quite what there are cranked out to be. Columbine was a deliberate attempt by the powers that be to disarm the public. It involved the CIA's MKUltra, brainwashing young children to do violent acts. Port Arthur was another. I read about Waco, how some computer hackers there had uncovered a gun-running scheme by the ATF to arm street hoods with captured Iraqi weapons to attack the American people to promote gun confiscation. I am now suspicious of the govt and wish I had learned to shoot a gun.
In Switzerland they take defending their liberty from the encroachments of government so seriously that they arm and train their citizens and made it a law that the citizens must defend themselves against the government if the government tries to take their guns away.
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