Yeah, I know\u2026some out there are muttering, \u201cWhaddaya mean, \u2018Happy\u2019!?!?\u201d<\/p>\n
Yes, the economy sucks\u2026but people who not only read the magazine Backwoods Home, but take its advice and cleave to its ethics, are going to be more ready for that than the rest.<\/p>\n
True, we \u201cgun folks\u201d didn\u2019t get the election results we wanted\u2026but we\u2019ve survived hostile Presidencies before. I expect we\u2019ll do it again.<\/p>\n
Indeed, we can anticipate attacks on firearms owners\u2019 rights from the \u201cchange-dot-gov\u201d folks now at the helm, who have made it abundantly clear where they stand on those issues. But we do have the landmark Heller decision from the Supreme Court of the United States that came down in mid-2008, and I think that\u2019s gonna help. <\/p>\n
I just got back from a post-Christmas sojourn on the west coast with my younger daughter, her husband, and my adorable granddaughter. If I\u2019m uncharacteristically optimistic, well, so be it. I\u2019ll just bask in those good vibes for a while.<\/p>\n
Lots of folks think the incoming Administration will leave law-abiding gun owners alone, maybe even for a couple of years until the interim elections. God knows, they avoided the gun issue studiously enough during the campaign, and the new team will indeed have its hands full with real issues, perhaps enough so that they\u2019ll lay off of the \u201cgun control\u201d that so many of them have touted for so long.<\/p>\n
The logical side of me is still skeptical about that, though. Rumor has it that the incoming administration wants to hit the ground running hard enough to make some very deep footprints, and their powerful majority on Capitol Hill will allow them to do that. <\/p>\n
I figured out when I was a little kid that it was better to be a pessimist than an optimist. You see, when you\u2019re an optimist, the best that happens is that things go as you planned, and half the time you\u2019re bitterly disappointed. But when you\u2019re a pessimist, the worst that ever happens is that things to exactly the way you were prepared for them to go, and half the time you\u2019re pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n
With the musical babble of my two-year-old granddaughter\u2019s voice still ringing in my ears, I\u2019ll allow myself some cautious optimism, if only because my usual pessimism has left me prepared for the worst. <\/p>\n
I\u2019d be interested to know what all of you out there see coming for 2009.<\/p>\n
And I wish you all a prosperous, safe, and productive New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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