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| Total Gun Confiscation Genie Can’t Be Put Back in Bottle |
| 2018-05-29 |
| by David Codrea [Oathkeepers] “What Happens When You Write About Gun Control in America” Esquire’s Dave Holmes titles a May 21 follow-up. “Gun-rights activists threaten to shoot you (among other reactions).” Follow-up to what? A piece from a few days earlier titled “Okay, Now I Actually Do Want To Take Your Guns.” ‘[T]hat piece ends up being pretty moderate when you actually look at it,” Holmes insists unconvincingly, but reminiscent of a line from “The Princess Bride. “Had any of these folks bothered to read the piece … they would have seen the part where I said: ‘It won’t happen, of course. So let’s meet in the middle.’ I am coming from a place of passion, but I am willing to compromise.” Some of us did bother and we’re not. We have no interest in meeting you or any other useful idiot apparatchik so that you can incrementally infringe rights you have no claim to. We know the end game and we’re ceding no ground from which to launch the next incursion. That would make as much sense as throwing a scrap of flesh to a circling pack of hyenas and expecting it to sate them and persuade them to be on their way. As for “coming from a place of passion,” demand a totalitarian monopoly of violence and you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. We know where that leads. So Holmes’ complaint about receiving “death threats” would be hardly unsurprising if it were true, which based on the examples he gives, is not. If he didn’t file police reports, I call BS. Nowhere does he quote anyone actually saying they are going to do him harm, and even if he did it would be on him to prove he didn’t make it up or it didn’t come from a fellow “progressive” trying to make gun owners look like terrorists. Instead he cites predictions of what would happen if he tried, which we of course know he would not—his type expects other men to gear up and do the risky wet work. As an aside, that the phrase “Molon Labe” is new to him shows a person profoundly ignorant of those he would turn into enemies. In fairness, his readership admittedly could leave most of us in the dust if the topics were men’s fashion tips, mixing the perfect martini or where to go for the best mankini wax job. Not to be outdone, sometime writer/actress Lauren Shippen shows “progressives” aren’t about anything if not stale and unoriginal ideas. I blocked out some words in the above graphic that you don’t need to guess very hard to discern, but if you want to see it uncensored, it’s still on her Twitter feed. While some might be tempted to just ask “Who?” and dismiss it as a leftist nobody (albeit Forbes considers her one of their “30 under 30” up-and-coming young media luminaries) making noise for attention, note that at this writing her tweet has amassed 65K “likes.” “There is abroad in our land the growing thought that America is now in fact two countries sharing a common border and (mostly) a common language but divided along the answer to this question: DOES THE GOVERNMENT SERVE THE PEOPLE OR DO THE PEOPLE SERVE THE GOVERNMENT?” my friend and colleague Mike Vanderboegh often observed on his Sipsey Street Irregulars blog. “Two countries, two world views, two contradictory histories. Each irreconcilable with the other.” It’s not a matter of agreeing to disagree. That opportunity will not be presented by those who would rule over all. If they reach the point where those pulling the strings feel emboldened enough to try for full-blown citizen disarmament after decades of incremental erosions, there will be those who defy them and those who actively resist orders articulated by Dianne Feinstein when she advocated “Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in.” And it’s not just so-called “assault weapons.” Remember, the Brady Campaign and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence both started with the goal to ban handguns. Those goals haven’t gone away, and Nancy Pelosi admitted that the piece-at-a-time strategy is still in operation with her “slippery slope” advocacy (echoed by Chris Murphy’s commitment to “baby steps” toward disarmament. Read the rest of the article at the link, and be sure to follow the links in the article as well. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #7 Liberal compromise means they will take what you give and shut up on that issue until the next exploitable case appears. After all they have enough issues to jump back and forth to and fro and the nation gets bored watching the anti-gun screaming all the time. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-05-29 14:42 |
| #6 Socialists ALWAYS talk compromise, they just never do compromise. They want to sell a Polaroid deal, 'Please, Please it's ONLY...' As if Life somehow was a single stop action frame rather than a multitude with a trajectory. Consider the homosexual of the field. Once 'all they wanted' was to be left alone and play with their little friends. Who the Hell cares? right? Yet somehow that has fully morphed into a militant demand that the entire social order re-align itself to humor every deeply delusional nut job in his sister's dress. Yeah, I think we can REALLY trust all those impassioned Leftists with our pre-existing, enumerated natural rights. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2018-05-29 12:08 |
| #5 The protests, triggered by a 50% spike in fuel prices over the last year, And here I thought Brazil had cheap fuel thanks to their bio-fuel program that ferments sugar cane and unicorn farts into ethanol. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-05-29 10:54 |
| #4 In Brazil its just a strike, but its also what an insurgency would look like for city dwellers - The protests, triggered by a 50% spike in fuel prices over the last year, resulted in the declaration of a state of emergency across most major cities as shelves run bare and vital supplies dwindle. Airports have reported running out of fuel, hospitals are running out of supplies, and public transport and trash collection have been reduced or halted across the country. Some food prices have also spiked as supplies dwindle. As we noted on Friday, a lack of livestock feed threatens a billion chickens and 20 million pigs who may starve to death. It's beyond the Left's comprehension as they live in an alternate universe. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-05-29 07:45 |
| #3 Link seems to be broken. Reload the page. It works. |
| Posted by: badanov 2018-05-29 07:10 |
| #2 Link seems to be broken. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2018-05-29 06:15 |
| #1 DOES THE GOVERNMENT SERVE THE PEOPLE OR DO THE PEOPLE SERVE THE GOVERNMENT? That, if fact, is the difference between us and them. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2018-05-29 05:17 |