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Was thinking of how many freedoms we have lost in my lifetime and it's a little depressing. I can remember when you could go into any Sears store and walk out with a gun, no background check. I remember when you could drive across either border north or south without the need for a passport. Remember when you could go to any doctor and get pain killer drugs that actually worked. You could carry a rifle in the back window of your pickup without fear of it being stolen or being stopped by a cop.

Am sure there are many more but those are the ones sticking in my craw at the moment.
 

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Well, you can still carry a gun in the back window of the pickup but it will likely be stolen.
When the new law goes into effect it can even be loaded!

My first gun was a used .410 bought from the local Army surplus store at 11 years old. Of course my dad had to buy it with my lawn mowing money at the insane price of $17.50. Still have it too.

I had a savings account at the local savings and loan. When I made two bucks mowing a lawn, One went to the savings and the other went back into fuel and maintenance. Dad and I walked in there with that gun in two pieces, him with the receiver and me with the barrel and never got a reaction from anybody. Got the money and walked out.
It would trigger an alarm these days.
 

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Being a kid in the 60’s was cool! My friends and I would get up Saturday mornings, get our .22 rifles, walk in the local hardware store, buy a box of .22’s each, then walk thru the neighborhoods to go shooting at the Arkansas river. One Saturday the Tulsa police stopped us and asked if we needed a ride. They took us to the river and we had fun all day.........:coffee2:
 

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Was thinking of how many freedoms we have lost in my lifetime and it's a little depressing. I can remember when you could go into any Sears store and walk out with a gun, no background check. I remember when you could drive across either border north or south without the need for a passport. Remember when you could go to any doctor and get pain killer drugs that actually worked. You could carry a rifle in the back window of your pickup without fear of it being stolen or being stopped by a cop.

Am sure there are many more but those are the ones sticking in my craw at the moment.
You must be close to my age as I remember everything in your post.....O' the good old days....I miss them too.........The only time we locked our house was when we were on vacation for a week or more.
 

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Was thinking of how many freedoms we have lost in my lifetime and it's a little depressing. I can remember when you could go into any Sears store and walk out with a gun, no background check. I remember when you could drive across either border north or south without the need for a passport. Remember when you could go to any doctor and get pain killer drugs that actually worked. You could carry a rifle in the back window of your pickup without fear of it being stolen or being stopped by a cop.

Am sure there are many more but those are the ones sticking in my craw at the moment.

Here's the worst of the matter, IMO - nearly every one of the "lost freedoms" listed here and down the thread by others was the result of restrictions written into law with the claim that some evil threat was being addressed and would be fixed by "just this one law." By the votes of our elders and ourselves, we have painted ourselves into the corner yet many refuse to see the obvious.
 

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Here's the worst of the matter, IMO - nearly every one of the "lost freedoms" listed here and down the thread by others was the result of restrictions written into law with the claim that some evil threat was being addressed and would be fixed by "just this one law." By the votes of our elders and ourselves, we have painted ourselves into the corner yet many refuse to see the obvious.

The best part is that the loss of freedoms is usually blamed on the younger generations too with some bull crap about them being soft or dumb or whatever. Like they are in a position to craft the laws that apply to them. Same concept as the "participation trophy". Literally no kid I have ever met wants a participation trophy --- but a lot of parents wanted to see their kids come home with something. Then people say the kids are soft because they wanted it, which twists and perverts how it went down.

While I don't know about @Poke78, so not trying to call you out, but I do see several people in this thread I know are in the older generation that by my observations does that a lot.
 

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