A Chance Encounter With Guns and Aussies Leads to Life Changing Lesson on Liberty

by Jan Morgan on December 9, 2013 at 1:02 PM

When a couple of Australians come to America on vacation, looking for adventure, they find it in an indoor gun range and leave with a new outlook on life and the true meaning of liberty. Tony is a physicist and his daughter, Abby, is a chef. They knew one of the things they absolutely had to experience while in America, was shooting.

Their goal was to get some firearms training and hopefully try to understand why Americans had such an obsession with guns. Of course, Tony and Abby thought this was just a chance encounter… that they walked in to a range and were getting firearms training from a “gun chick”…. LOL.

They had no idea they were now in the hands of one of the most passionate, uncompromising, 2nd Amendment advocates in America who is adamantly opposed to background checks, registration, as well as any and all forms of restrictions/laws regarding gun ownership which are forms of INFRINGEMENT in violation of the 2nd Amendment.

In Tony’s words, Americans were simply a bunch of fanatics when it came to guns and gun rights… He had no idea why 90 million people in this country would want over 300 million guns. Fortunately for Tony and Abby, I happened to be running the range in Hot Springs the day they walked in the door asking for “training”. As they explained their situation in Australia, I learned that it is even worse there than I realized.

I knew law abiding citizens in Australia were not allowed to own guns. I did not know that they also could not own air soft guns or pellet guns.

To make matters worse, it is against the law in Australia to wear bullet proof vests. So, in addition to being disarmed and defenseless, they also can’t take simple protective measures like wearing bullet proof vests to save their lives from criminals who have guns (and also vests)…

I spent an hour in a classroom setting teaching them gun safety, proper grip, shooting positions, sight alignment, sight picture, target versus self defense shooting positions, etc. In the midst of that “gun” training, I also began to drop in the lesson, information about responsible gun ownership, why so many Americans love guns and explained that our “obsession” with guns goes much deeper than the firearm.

Firearms are simply tools to protect and defend our true obsession, which is LIBERTY.

I explained the 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights and how it is not a right “given” to us by the government but rather, it is a statement to the government that Americans are born in this country with the right to bear arms to defend life and liberty and this right “shall not be infringed.”

I asked them questions like, “Do you realize that in the 20th century, 170 million people have been annihilated by their own governments AFTER BEING DISARMED?”

This was news to them.

I asked them what they would do if someone like Hitler became the leader of Australia?

How would they, an unarmed citizenry, be able to take their country back?

I explained that gun control laws are the first steps to tyranny. Gun registration leads to confiscation.

Gun control is not and have never been about GUNS… IT IS ABOUT CONTROL…

By the time these two wonderful Australians left the range, they had a new outlook on guns, gun ownership and most importantly, freedom -how precious it is and how easily it can be lost, one law, one restriction, at a time.

I believe these two may one day be moving to America.

As you see from the video below, they definitely left with a change of view. I hope they will share their experience with others in Australia, even though change there at this point seems impossible. This “chance” encounter was also a reminder for me that Americans must be ever vigilant about standing against any efforts to infringe on our 2nd Amendment.

There are already close to 30 thousand gun control laws on the books in this country.. That is 30 thousand too many that have occurred on our watch.