[magic452]

You totally missed the point of my post. A little bit at a time.
You don't get there if you don't let them take your rights away in the first place.

I'm not talking about just my ancestors but my contemporaries and those that are doing so today. What our ancestors did is very relevant to what we as Americans would do today, it's our heritage just as The Winters War is yours, it would influence what you would do.

What CCIP posted is very valid for him and the Russian people at the time. The situation was already out of control for many years and there was little they could do about it. Dieing for a slogan would not be the best way to protect your family, their rights and liberty were lost a long time ago. What I'm saying is that there are those of us that will fight to protect out liberty not necessarily with guns but with whatever action we can, even if it starts with posting in some forum thread. If it came to guns there are many that would go that way if necessary to prevent what happened in Russia from happening here. You stand on the shoulders of those that came before you and for myself personally I would do what ever I could to protect my family from going through anything like what happened in Russia or many other places in the world. I've gotten my butt handed to me on more than one occasion for standing up for what I thought was right so it wouldn't be the first time.

Those who ignore history are doom to repeat it.

Nearly a hundred years ago the Russian people did stand up for their rights and liberty regrettably it didn't turn out so good, the replacement government was worse than the one they had.

While it's true that Americans haven't fought our government for some 150 years but we have done so twice in the past. The past can and often does repeat itself.

Magic