Revolution is possible - see Germany

[hartwig]

Hi from Germany!

User Caleb (WolevrineUntamed) suggested to me, that I post my comment here, which I posted on ABCNews regarding the interview with Ron Paul by George, the Greek. I gladly do follow Caleb's suggestion:

abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/comments?type=story&id=133369

Hi from Hamburg, Germany!

Thx to George (and the people in charge at ABC) for showing the interview with Ron Paul on ABC. I can tell you from German history: revolutions start very slowly and quietly, but then, wow, it can get really massive.

Remember the fall of the wall 1989?! At the beginning in 1988 there were just 50 people gathering in Leipzig for demos. One year later, there were 70,000, and then 2 months later 500,000. 1 month later, the wall fell!

So, keep on believing in the impossible. Sometimes dreams do come true - you just have to work hard for it - and the time must be right. Here in Germany we certainly believe, the time is right for a real change of politics in the USA. I really think, that the time is right for a man like Ron Paul. Go Ron Paul!

Auf wiedersehen. Und Dankeschön George!

Hartwig (Hamburg)

[conservative123]

As long as Americans have the right to bare arms,I will always believe a revolution is possible,but I believe in peace first just as the forefathers did when they first declared independance from England in a peaceful proposal.

[FreedomFighter]

Totally agree Hartwig, thanks for posting. America, we can do this!!

I also agree with you Conservative123. However I think our forefather's version of our "Right to keep and Bare Arms" is near gone. Pretty soon I think we will only have the "Right to keep and Bare Arms" as long as it's a single shot black powder rifle or similar......

[PapaSmurerf]

I just spoke to a nice gentleman this afternoon at our local Wal-Mart. I made the comment that I noticed that their shotgun and rifle security display case was missing. He acknowledged that it was gone, paused for a moment looking intently at me and then said, 'politically correct'.

He said that it started in California and that there are very few Wal-Marts still selling fire arms. He's noticed that cartridge and shell prices are going up and that probably they won't even be selling ammo anymore eventually.

I could tell where his 2nd amendment sympathy lies and I gave him 2 first names: Ron Paul. Said he had heard of Ron and that he would learn more about him.

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From what I remember of Sam Walton, I don't think he'd be particularly pleased about this development.

"The more they know, the more they’ll understand. The more they understand, the more they’ll care. Once they care, there’s no stopping them."
~ Sam Walton

Though he was speaking of his associates, Sam aptly describes the ever growing number of individuals who support Ron Paul for President.

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"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional illogical liberal minority & rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous liberal press which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
~ unknown

[PapaSmurerf]

WAL-MART
Halted gun sales infuriate customers
By Sasha Talcott, Globe Staff | September 11, 2005

BATON ROUGE, La. -- As fearful residents rush to stock up on guns, Wal-Mart, one of the region's biggest suppliers, abruptly stopped selling them at 40 stores scattered throughout the Gulf Coast.

The move infuriated some Wal-Mart customers in this fiercely progun region, some of whom said the big chain left them without protection as the violence increased after Hurricane Katrina.

''We had a lot of chaos," said Donald Goff, who was sitting in a white pickup outside a local Wal-Mart store. ''They should be open to sell guns. They should not be doing this to people."

Smaller stores are eagerly filling the void. Spillway Sportsman, near Baton Rouge, sold 172 guns in one three-day period after the hurricane, when normally it might sell 15. One mother came in to buy her first gun after she and her two children, ages 9 and 12, witnessed a slaying on the streets of New Orleans, said Scott Roe, Spillway's owner.

''Her comment was, 'I was a card-carrying, antigun liberal -- not anymore,' " Roe said. ''She said, 'I'm going back home, and I am not going back unarmed.' "

A Wal-Mart spokeswoman, Karen Burk, attributed the company's decision to pull guns from the shelves to ''some very fluid circumstances and changing situations" in the region. She did not elaborate far beyond that. ''We're trying to take care of our customers and community and be a responsible retailer at the same time," Burk said.

[Now there's a couple of couched, euphemistic phrases if I ever read one, there's two! ~PSmurerf]

-Full article-
www.boston.com/news/weather/articles/2005/09/11/halted_gun_sales_infuriate_customers/

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Wal-Mart drops gun sales in some stores
Retailer says move due to lack of demand in about one third of locations

Updated: 3:46 p.m. ET April 14, 2006
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has decided to stop selling guns in about a third of its U.S. stores in what it calls a marketing decision based on lack of demand in some places, a company spokeswoman said Friday.

The world’s largest retailer decided last month to remove firearms from about 1,000 stores in favor of stocking other sporting goods, in line with a “Store of the Community” strategy for boosting sales by paying closer attention to local differences in demand.

“This decision is based on diminished customer relevancy and demand in these markets,” said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Jolanda Stewart.

Hunting and shooting advocates said it was a surprise that Wal-Mart, which has a strong hunting and fishing tradition, would surrender the field in at least some areas to big-box outfitting stores like Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s.

“For some folks, it will affect them as far as where they get their deer rifle or shotgun,” said Gregg Patterson, spokesman for the hunting and conservation group Ducks Unlimited.

The National Rifle Association said it was concerned people in rural areas, where Wal-Mart may be the only purveyor, may no longer have access to guns.

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Wal-Mart’s critics and gun control advocates welcomed the move.

“This a good first step,” said Paul Blank, director of the union-funded group WakeUpWalMart.com, which contends there is a growing public safety concern about violence and crime at Wal-Mart stores.

The Violence Policy Center, a gun control group, said Wal-Mart’s decision reflected what it called a decline in gun ownership. “The marketplace has spoken and the losers are America’s gun industry and the gun lobby,” VPC Executive Director Josh Sugarmann said in a statement.


-Full article-
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12316692/