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"Shoot as you ride" was a fight 'poem'
by my great grandmother, who was temperance fighter.
Too bad, it sounded great as I first read the title.
Like alcohol prohibition, I fear we are in
for a decades long battle.
The German side of mine love their beer.
The Local Chicago thing started with the German Beer riots
around the 1850's when the tight laced natives prohibited
beer 'keggers' in the park.
With an uprising of the local German population this was reversed
and after that locals German's got involved with politics.
They fought the temperance movement
which gathered steam over the next 70 years.
My great grandfather ran a brewery on the So side of Chicago.
Was City treasurer for a couple of years 1890's and even developed
A non alcholholic beer in 1916 to calm the antis.
But the anti sentiment continued and in a meeting of Brewer's
and the Mayor Carter Harrison the third, they walked out saying,
"He (the mayor) turned "temprenz".
The post WW1 anti-german sentiment
lead to the Volsted Act.
The anti's used an opportunity to move their agenda;
sounds familiar, eh?
This is where the Roman Emperor Claudius might note to himself
That he would let the poison rise to the surface as human behavior led to organized crime, violence and a general lawless disrespect reared its head.
This consequence is what we warn the gun control people to consider.
The knife violence and lawlessness of England is another example.
The government can't always protect and do what they promise.
See the LA Riots....
The 2nd amendment is at least enshrined in the bill of rights;
alcohol never was.
Join the NRA and other pro gun groups, write the letters,
Get active, fasten your seat belt; it's going to be a bumpy ride.
I just hope that the poison that the anti's produce
does not hurt too damn many.
by my great grandmother, who was temperance fighter.
Too bad, it sounded great as I first read the title.
Like alcohol prohibition, I fear we are in
for a decades long battle.
The German side of mine love their beer.
The Local Chicago thing started with the German Beer riots
around the 1850's when the tight laced natives prohibited
beer 'keggers' in the park.
With an uprising of the local German population this was reversed
and after that locals German's got involved with politics.
They fought the temperance movement
which gathered steam over the next 70 years.
My great grandfather ran a brewery on the So side of Chicago.
Was City treasurer for a couple of years 1890's and even developed
A non alcholholic beer in 1916 to calm the antis.
But the anti sentiment continued and in a meeting of Brewer's
and the Mayor Carter Harrison the third, they walked out saying,
"He (the mayor) turned "temprenz".
The post WW1 anti-german sentiment
lead to the Volsted Act.
The anti's used an opportunity to move their agenda;
sounds familiar, eh?
This is where the Roman Emperor Claudius might note to himself
That he would let the poison rise to the surface as human behavior led to organized crime, violence and a general lawless disrespect reared its head.
This consequence is what we warn the gun control people to consider.
The knife violence and lawlessness of England is another example.
The government can't always protect and do what they promise.
See the LA Riots....
The 2nd amendment is at least enshrined in the bill of rights;
alcohol never was.
Join the NRA and other pro gun groups, write the letters,
Get active, fasten your seat belt; it's going to be a bumpy ride.
I just hope that the poison that the anti's produce
does not hurt too damn many.
