My mother has historically been very anti gun. In fact my family hunting and firearms tradition starts with me. Her attitude has always been: "well its not you that I'm worried about, its all those other people with guns." Over the last few years, and particularly after Columbine, she thought I kind of went off the deep end when it came to the Bill of Rights, media bias, and many other things that "we" regularly discuss here. At Christmas I asked her to read UC, as it would give her a better understanding of my angst for our freedom. She had some issues with parts of the book, but said that overall she enjoyed it, and has a much better understanding for where I am coming from. She also found many of the atrocities perpetrated on citizens in the book hard to believe and questioned their authenticity. I went through a long list of them with her and pointed her to independent forms of corroboration. In short, she has started to think of these issues in a much more critical and logical fashion.
I am very happy that I asked her to read it, and she finished it. Now if I can just get here to pass out Gran'pa Jack literature to her fifth grade students...
I am very happy that I asked her to read it, and she finished it. Now if I can just get here to pass out Gran'pa Jack literature to her fifth grade students...