Posted on 06/01/2013 12:11:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Watching the celebration at the NRA convention over the defeat of background checks was the most nauseating experience of the day.
I am not a New York gun control liberal, either. I support a shotgun for home defense, a handgun for limited conceal/carry, and an assortment of hunting rifles to balance West Virginia's exploding deer population (as evidenced by hourly collisions with cars). So, I am hardly out of the mainstream.
But, the gun safety debate is B.S. This foaming at the mouth, Obamar is coming for the guns, Nanny Bloomberg is a bad billionaire, and most despicable of all, those survivors and victims are pawns in the liberal agenda is knuckle-dragging Cretan talk.
And no matter how many times Sen. Joe Manchin tries to explain his compromise (a decent attempt thwarted by extremists), the hard right lies and foams. The repeated lies now seem like the truth, what with the likes of Sen. Kelly Ayotte telling them.
Probably the most serious miscalculation opponents make is the guest list for the NRA speaker's podium. To let the half-wit half-term quitter Sarah Palin have a microphone is to alienate the very people Republicans need to work with on future legislation. To say nothing of the other speakers.
And how does choosing a white, rich old man with an offensive degrading speech about the war of "Northern Aggression" as NRA president forward a sense of reasonableness? History lesson: It was an awful Civil War won decisively some 150 years ago. Over slavery. The Confederacy wanted to keep African-Americans in chains and President Lincoln didn't.
Sure, there were states' rights issues, but nullification, secession, and treason were settled at Appomattox Courthouse. Sure, Reconstruction left a bad taste. But, resurrecting these same things, the way South Carolina is as we speak, is to invite a return to the whole concept of a Union.
Here it is. The NRA advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America. That's treason, and it's worthy of the firing squad. The B.S. needs a serious gut check. We are not a tin pot banana republic where machine gun toting rebel groups storm the palace and depose the dictator.
We put the president in the White House. To support the new NRA president's agenda of arming the populace for confrontation with the government is bloody treason. And many invite it gladly as if the African-American president we voted for is somehow infringing on their Constitutional rights.
Normally, I am a peaceable man, but in this case, I am willing to answer the call to defend the country. From them.
To turn the song lyric they so love to quote back on them, "We'll put a boot in your ---, it's the American way."
Except it won't be a boot. It'll be an M1A Abrams tank, supported by an F22 Raptor squadron with Hellfire missiles. Try treason on for size. See how that suits. And their assault arsenal and RPGs won't do them any good.
So, to return to reality, all of us. Let's make common sense gun safety a deciding issue for 2014 and beyond. The NRA certainly has. Let's push back. We the People. The 85 percent who support more robust background checks. And when the next domestic terrorist with an assault rifle comes along, we can blame the leaders and fringe of the NRA for arming them.
And it is also evidence that even rural "redneck" West Virginia is not immune to the corruption of higher education by the left.
Oh, that’s just the trouble - we have a free press - we just don’t have free and independent presses.“Liberals” love the Adam Smith quote about monopoly:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch 10)But when you consider the fact thatyou realize that it would be a wonder if the AP were anything else but “a conspiracy against the public” by now.
- the Associated Press is nothing but a virtual meeting of all the major actors in American journalism, and
- it has now been running continually for over a century and a half,
That conspiracy is called “liberalism."
“We are not a tin pot banana republic where machine gun toting rebel groups storm the palace and depose the dictator.”
No, we’re a tin pot banana republic where machine gun toting
SWAT thugs storm house, and taze and shoot anything that moves in the name of “authority.”
house = houses
So, Swindell is an elitist- gun protection for ME, but not for THEE.
“Except it won’t be a boot. It’ll be an M1A Abrams tank, supported by an F22 Raptor squadron with Hellfire missiles. Try treason on for size. See how that suits. And their assault arsenal and RPGs won’t do them any good.”
If the regime has to use that to take down a group of patriots defending what’s left of their country, then so be it. I can’t think of a more glorious death. It sure as hell beats captivity in a FEMA death camp.
This is just drivel!
“We put the president in the White House. To support the new NRA president’s agenda of arming the populace for confrontation with the government is bloody treason. And many invite it gladly as if the African-American president we voted for is somehow infringing on their Constitutional rights.”
Normally, I do not deconstruct the arguments of the retarded, but retarded and deliberately deceptive is more than my overstimulated gag reflex can stand.
So, let the deconstruction begin........
“We put the president in the White House” - true, lamentably so, but true. The Founders knew evil and treasonous men might well attain office and made certain the citizens could be armed to deal with the evil/treason if driven to that extreme by elected officials.
Mr. ProfessorPerson forgets that in America officials are but public servants. Servants, not masters, Mr. ProfessorPerson.
“To support the new NRA president’s agenda of arming the populace for confrontation with the government is bloody treason.”
The Founders wisely wanted citizens of the American Republic to be able to confront, AND BE ABLE TO DEFEAT, a tyranical government. They discussed this possibility and in most clear and unambiguous terms described how and why they had formed a government which the citizens COULD DEFEAT if said government became oppressive.
Good enough for the Founders is good enough for Americans of all ages, excepting Mr. ProfessorPerson and his collectivism infected Fellow Travelers.
“And many invite it gladly as if the African-American president we voted for is somehow infringing on their Constitutional rights.” Quite so, and our Constitutional Rights ARE being infringed Mr. ProfessorPerson.
Obviously, you are not concerned about such infringements, but Americans are, by definition.
Conclusion: Mr. ProfessorPerson is comfortable with infringement of Constitution guaranteed rights.
This moron knows nothing about asymmetrical warfare.
Professor of Journalism.
That means friends that his ideas are correct and your are wrong. He knows what is good for all of us, because he is a Professor of left wing Journalism.
He speaks of letting us have a blunderbuss, a few guns that are mostly not harmful now, but let him pass those regulations and later he will come for the blunderbuss.
My words to this learned professor is go screw yourself.
As far as his arrogant comment about standing up to the NRA with counter violence, he'll be the first to sh!t himself and run to the nearest refugee camp. I'll be he doesn't even own a gun. Note that he says in essence "I support gun ownership", not "I own guns".
/johnny
A quick search shows that he also posts at DU.
The Charleston Gazette allows “contributors” to rant and contradict themselves with 3rd grade level rhetoric and call it an “editorial”.
It’s easy to threaten liberty from the safety of a pen while existing in the comforting arms of benevolent tyranny.
The Norwegian Nobel Prize winner for literature, Knut Hamsun (and his books are amazing) - turned nazist in his old age. His chief reason seemed to be that Hitler had a superfantastic war machine and was the winning side. Everyone must be on the winning side.
Idjitt even presented his Nobel medal to Hitler, I think.
People love monsters.
The F22 doesn’t shoot the hellfire... But I’m sure the prof doesn’t really care about facts.
Ahh.. didn’t get that. Womdered what he had against Greeks :).
He’s one one of obamas people ,an idiot.
How, pray tell, did this raving liberal lunatic “rise” to the level of Professor?
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