Freedom

   As y'all may or may not know, I work at a sporting goods store and sell guns for a living. It's something I love doing and if I say so myself, I'm  quite good at it.  I get to talk hunting and fishing with people of like interests and I really don't have to work to hard in selling our products.

  But, ever once in a while something happens that makes my day really click and I get a good warm feeling about it. Yesterday was one of those. It happened late in the afternoon when  a group of young  people came to the gun counter where I was working and young woman began trying to explain Texas to a pair of young men who happened to be from England. They were curious about Texas and how our laws worked concering gun ownership, such as Right to Carry, and Castle Doctrine. See, in England, they have no rights as we do. I found out that they are merely victims waiting to be preyed upon. Here in America, especially in Texas, we have a right to fefend ourselves and our property using up to, and including, deadly force.

 The two Brits were amazed that guns could be so openly displayed and asked if anyone could buy one. I told them that any resident who was of age and could pass a quick background check. I also informed them that in most states it was legal to carry a gun with a license and in some states no license was needed to carry.

 They asked so many questions abour hunting, shooting sports, self defense that we ended up talking quite a while with now a few other customers chiming in with their thoughts and opinions.  One finally screwed up enough courage to ask if he could hold one. He was shocked when I went to the rack and pulled down a shotgun and after checking it,  handed it to him. He held that gun like it was something rare and precious. He told me that was the first time he had ever held a gun in his life. He asked all sorts of questions ranging from how many shells it would hold to what kind of game it would work for. After a bit he handed it back saying, " I've not held such power before". I told him it wasn't power he was holding but, Freedom. I told that it is our Second Ammendment that protects all the other ones, and that we would only be citizens as long as we had them and not subjects to a govenrment that had taken them.

 That talk I had with those Brits only helped to drive home the point that we must constantly be on guard against any effort to limit our freedom. No matter how good it sounds coming  from a politician or reads in the news; any effort and limiting what we can say, do or own is a slippery slope that can only lead to us becoming like most of Europe and the rest of the World. That, to me y'all, doesn't sound like being an American.