Say non-violent felons are restored their inalienable rights (primarily 2A), likelihood we would be able to participate in militias?
I understand there's existing methods of Gun Rights Restoration and I've already restored my right to vote here in Iowa. The Gun Rights Restoration application for Iowa is so ... I hate to sound like a fucking cuck, but that thing is psychologically assaulting me. I'm supposed to figure out where all of these people are and ask them for a recommendation of good character, the same people who rarely made eye contact with me let alone spoke to me or explained and rationalized with me from ages 12 to 19. Locked facilities, programs, and disciplinary actions for 5 years, probation for 13 years. Never got in trouble for physically hurting anyone or bulling them, I was a shit head kid from a broken home, confused and wandering through the bullshit. I never did heavy drugs I just loved being social with pot or alcohol, I had a problem stealing small stupid insignificant shit but eventually through the natural progression of these situations I eventually graduated petty crime and earned myself 2 felonies at age 17, burg 2nd and 3rd. The system in its shit state just ate me up without so much as to looking down at the child or conducting any actual form of criminal investigations my whole "career" through! Either way, you get the point without me dragging storytelling on, I hope. Things are different now... I'm 25 years old, I have a mortgage. I've been in love with the same woman for 5 years now, and we have 3 children, etc. I can go on and on about how I've been living better and doing right on this earth but to expect these people to sign a letter stating that I'm a "good man" now seems a bit unrealistic, which I've no doubt was the original intent here with Iowa legislation. We're very no bullshit but sometimes that bites patriots like myself in the ass. We have the worst felon disenfranchisement in all the states, ffs you let people molest, rape, and assault people day and night here but thieves and stoners get the book! Your shits broken Iowa. I remember when I was in Eldora State training school, for shits and giggles I perused the Iowa law books. A funny thing I remember and would like to point out regardless how fucking weird or gross it is, and I hope I'm remembering this correctly... You can have consensual sex with your grandma in Iowa and that carries a heavier penalty than distributing child pornography. Shit needs a looking over. I LIKE THE LOOKS OF THIS ACB.
Imagine if instead of homeschooling my children with these shitty common core lessons, in this city that my family isn't benefitting from and vice versa, I was homesteading somewhere living a fulfilling life and being pursuant of my happiness. Academia, the government, the people all went fucking sideways, I just want safe passage in these times. Give my little family of 5 the freedom to attempt survival and we'll gon' head git the fuck up out of here and find something sacred. I'll sit back from my lands and watch the new pantheon of politicians like Trump and ACB fight for whats right. Funny enough my life long goals were to be military or leo, even just before the felonies. Now that I've been away 5 of my 25 years and have 3 kids, I don't plan on volunteering military at this point, I've kinda established this family and I can only be so much of an asshole. If I were to give back to the country maybe through agriculture or something, join a milita, maybe someday even practice my faith in church next to all of you who aren't ashamed in the light of God. I haven't walked with our father in a long time.
Being a 25 year old who graduated from the school of hardknocks and having had made it out the other side, its really hard finding anyone sharing common ground with me. I wish someone looked at us few exceptions more seriously. Last night on TimCast IRL I was very surprised to learn that Proud Boys leader is a felon, gives me hope when I see him out there.
I'll turn my rant off now, sorry, as you can imagine I don't talk to people much so when I do it all comes out turbulent. Feel free to make a friend. Thanks for reading!
Sounds like you're on the right track. Keep doing what you're doing and be patient as you work to get your gun rights back. Truthfully, most people never need a gun to defend themselves and if you ever do they'll use your history against you at trial. Being in shape and learning some form of martial art is much more useful in 99%+ of altercations.
I have guns but they're not for self defense. They're to keep the government in check. Guys like me provide herd immunity from tyranny so you don't really need a gun at the moment. If active civil war breaks out, nobody will be asking you how you got a gun or questioning your right to have one. If you think you need a gun for self defense because of where you live, then consider moving elsewhere.
I've defended myself from groups of armed people on multiple occasions as life would have it, it makes no difference to me. I trust you with me and mines protection like I trust my blood brother who's an active 3%, bailiff, and volunteer FF. I don't. I'll die on the same hill next to you, I wont die for you or because of you, just with you. I deserve that gun as much as you do. Move where? Somewhere with stricter laws then my own? Run to one of the other states in decline? The country has problems, dont matter which dumbass I move in next to. I hail from the Quad cities so fighting is part and parcel here, knowing mma ain't helping you against me, maybe some other guy but they've tried that before lol , I dont buy into the JRE meathead life. Eating creatine and learning muay Thai is still going to wind you up with a brick, knife, or bullet to the face. Lol idgaf about physical pain, I worry about my children being snuffed from existing or innocence lost. Defense aside what about me having a right to own or use fucking tool to feed my family lol?! These controls placed on the peoples will never have a positive effect. I grow up under Christian ideology my whole life but I make a mistake and a man in a dress thats too fat around the middle to see me from his own chair can without knowing a thing about me sign away my rights. :) I'm confused with this country, I'll tell you that much. I want someone to argue for me that I can't be self reliant without living in one of your communities sucking at the same teat as everyone else. Used to be dudes round these parts with tricorns and ponytails, shit made sense when they were running the show. Im no criminal sympathizer, either. Sorry for the slow replies.
I'm a realist and I don't for a second dismiss the very realistic and almost likely event that my family will be attacked. Crimes so normal here in Iowa we don't publicize it and I get to watch Chicago, the west and east coast Duke it out over which is the "baddest" of them all, meanwhile its common for little kids to drive across the Centennial bridge and kill each other over bragging rights.
If it ever comes to a civil war I'm right as rain, more so then most pedes, We have the Rock Island arsenal! Come to me for the ammo in the end days!
I could keep running circles around my own head but that just leads to incoherence SO, In conclusion; I WANT MY GUNS. I WANT MY FREEDOMS. I dont like ultimatums and neither do you.
A smart man avoids putting himself or his family in danger.
When you end up in jail again for using one your family will be forced to survive without you and your coveted gun.
You clearly care more about guns than your family's safety. Good luck staying out of prison.
Are you actually retarded or is this something new that you're trying out?
You even left citations as if you read everything in post. . . Huh.
A lot of people like to argue that the migration will hurt us in the long run? I'd like to liquidate the very little I have and try starting what I consider meaningful, however I dont want to ruin myself or my nation anymore 🙃 I'm stuck making any moves or amusing the idea even until after whatever this election ends up being anyways!
Wish I had IA knowledge or advice, but it's not my wheelhouse.
Also wish many like minded or willing pedes were up at this hour and seeing your Post-
it is worthy upvoting and engagement.
YOU are worth it.
I may not know you, but I am proud of you; you are the boy my daughter dragged home as a friend who I fed and worried about and knew was getting a raw deal- but could shine so very bright if only.... you are the neighbor's son who struggled past neglect and abuse and uninterested teachers, slid into the abyss- yet came out the other side capable of being a good parent and spouse and person... you are the student I tutored for free who only reluctantly engaged when you couldn't avoid, shock, or drive me off, and I was able to plant a tiny seed of self worth and hope I dreamed would spring to life at a critical point in their life long after I was not there to see it.
Your future goals are very worthy. But what you have ALREADY accomplished is more than lots of regular working class peeps ever do. Realize you are winning at life as an adult, and asking for group help is a valuable skillset when you have compatriots that could offer quality advice. And, if this is missed tonight, consider a direct request for advice in title as a rePost during a busy engagement window.
Hugs 🙂
I definitely wouldn't mind more engagement, I usually drop by to look at memes or be vulgar. Being a loner my whole life though, losing friends, walking away from friends, I guess I've kind of ostracized anyone close to me as a preventive maintenance in the last few years. Real life relationships aren't very viable at the moment anyways but even via the Internet, I don't ever seem to fit in anywhere when time has anything to say about it. It'd be nice to find my people haha.
Didn't ask.
Btw god gave you rights, not the state. The state can't take them away either, they can only point a gun at your head and tell you that if you exercise your rights they will kill you, because they don't like you anymore.
Personally speaking, those terms are acceptable.
History isn't made by people who follow the law.
5 years mandatory just isn't the nostalgia I'm looking for, though. I've had family and friends, leos and vets from GA to Ill. telling me the same shit out of love this past year. I wont do another stint I dont deserve, not again. Uncle Sam's kicked this dog one too many times.
This is terrible advice.
It's the right advice. 5th column communists run our alphabet agencies and law enforcement won't end jogger and commie riots. We are on our own.