I am good with bearing arms. I have lately been just as good about baring them.
A while ago, I posted a little essay called “Why the Gun is Civilization“. It was pretty well received, and got me a lot of positive comments from a variety of people. Some folks asked for permission to reprint and publish the essay in various newsletters and webzines, and I gladly granted it every time, only asking for attribution in return.
Recently, I have noticed my essay pop up on the Internet a lot in various forums, most of which I do not frequent. This in itself causes me no grief, but the reposts are almost invariably attributed to someone who is not me. Some are attributed to a Major L.Caudill, USMC (Ret.), and some are merely marked as “forwarded” by the same person. Others are not attributed at all, giving the impression that the person who posted the essay is also its author.
In school, we call reproduction without attribution “plagiarism“. It’s usually cause for a failing grade or even expulsion in most college codes of conduct. In the publishing world, we call the same thing “intellectual property theft”.
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“No one’s finger is on the trigger but your own. All the talk-talk in your head, all the emotions in your heart, all the experiences of your past — these things may inform your choice, but they can’t move your finger. All the socialization and rationalization and justification in the world, all the approval or disapproval of your neighbors — none of these things can pull the trigger either. They can change how you feel about the choice, but only you can actually make the choice. Only you. Only here. Only now. Fire, or not?”
In a life or death situation, if you are still trying to make that choice after you have pulled a gun on an attacker, you probably will not survive.
Thank you for sharing it. I truly great essay.
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Gun control laws are racist and elitist. the first gun control laws were passed to keep Negros from owning and carrying guns. The infamous Sullivan Act was passed to keep Italians and other “undesirable” Southern European Catholic immigrants from having guns.
The first Jim Crow laws were gun control laws. As late as 1941 the Florida Supreme Court ruled that gun control laws did not apply to whites.
“I know something of the history of this legislation. The original Act of 1893 was passed when there was a great influx of Negro laborers in this state drawn here for the purpose of working in turpentine and lumber camps. The same condition existed when the act was amended in 1901 and the act was passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers and to thereby reduce the unlawful homicides that were prevalent in turpentine and saw-mill camps and to give the white citizens in sparsely settled areas a better feeling of security. The statute was never intended to be applied to the white population and in practice has never been so applied. We have no statistics available, but it is a safe guess that more than 80 percent of the white men living in rural sections of Florida have violated this statute. It is also a safe guess to say that not more than 5 percent of the men in Florida who own pistols and repeating rifles have ever applied to the Board of County Commissioners for a permit to have the same in their possession and there has never been, within my knowledge, any effort to enforce the provisions of this statute as to white people, because it has been generally conceded to be in contravention of the Constitution and non-enforceable if contested” (Watson v. State, Supreme Court Justice Rivers Buford concurring opinion).
Good one - sometimes the choice between life and death involve choosing life for yourself and death for the oppressor - what our Founding Fathers really intended.
An excellent article. Thanks for posting it. It should (but won’t) be required reading in all history, government, psychology, and sociology courses at all levels.
As for the “moment of pulling the trigger,” I made my decision a long time ago. If the situation is him/her or me surviving, I will choose me without hesitation.
An excellent article. Thanks for posting it. It should (but won’t) be required reading in all history, government, psychology, and sociology courses at all levels.
As for the “moment of pulling the trigger,” I made my decision a long time ago. If the situation is him/her or me surviving, I will choose me without hesitation.