I used to be a gun grabber...

I was a gun grabber, hell, I was a grabber of all vices! I grabbed at soda, and junk food, and cigarettes, and video games. I was a coward who couldn't control myself, who couldn't say no, who couldn't delay gratification.<br><br>And I blamed guns, and soda, and cigarettes, and video games, and fast food. Hell, I blamed anything and everything that I could. I blamed fast food for making me fat, cigarettes for making me sick, and guns for making me unsafe. I blamed everything but myself, and I demanded that the government take them all away.<br><br>I used to have a stupid list of guns that I thought should be illegal, with no logical reason for it. I was a typical hoplophobe who thought that a pistol was somehow different from a rifle, or that a semi was different from an auto, or that a pump action was somehow different from a lever action.<br><br>I was a joke, a sad pathetic joke who refused to take responsibility for myself, or my life, and I tried to force that pathology on the rest of the world. I was an embarrassment to myself, and to society as a whole. But then something happened.<br><br>I bought a gun, a nice little .38 special snub, and suddenly I wasn't afraid. I wasn't afraid of being hurt, or mugged, or shot. I wasn't afraid of being a victim, and for the first time in my life I felt empowered. I felt like I didn't have to hide, like I could take control of my own life.<br><br>And then I started to see other things. I started to see that all of the other things I had blamed for all of my problems, they weren't the problem. The problem was me, it was always me. I was the one who ate too much and smoked too much. I was the one who didn't go to the gym, who didn't take care of myself.<br><br>I was the one who played too many video games, and who watched too much TV. I was the one who didn't read enough, who didn't learn enough, and who didn't bother trying to make myself a better person. I was the problem, and once I admitted that to myself I started to change.<br><br>And once I started to change, I started to see change all around me. People who I used to think of as gun nuts, I started to see them as responsible individuals who were just trying to enjoy a hobby. I started to see the freedom in being able to protect yourself, your family, and your property.<br><br>And once I started to see the world more clearly, I started to see all sorts of other things. I saw how much of our tax dollars went to pay for people to sit on their ass and do nothing, to pay for people to be professional victims. I saw how much of our tax dollars went to destroy the black family, to destroy the black community.<br><br>I saw how much of our tax dollars went to paying for illegals to live here, to paying for their food and their shelter and their healthcare. I saw how much of our tax dollars went to trying to force everyone to be the same, to trying to enforce equality of outcome.<br><br>I saw how the media lies, how the news lies, how the government lies. I saw how they exploited our fear, how they used it to push their agendas, to get elected, to stay in office. I saw how they used our fear to take our money, and how they used our money to take our freedom.<br><br>And once I saw all of that, I knew that I had to make a change. I knew that I had to stand up, to speak out, to fight. I am no longer a coward, I am no longer a gun grabber. I am a proud American, a proud gun owner, and a proud defender of freedom.<br><br>And if you're still a gun grabber, then you're still a coward. You're still a pathetic worm who blames everyone and everything for your own shortcomings. But there's hope, there's always hope.<br><br>Just admit to yourself that you're the problem, take control of your own life, and learn to defend yourself. Learn to be a man, and learn to be free.<br><br>Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you kind strangers for the silver and gold. Do you know what I'm going to buy with that? Ammunition of course!