Yeah, any effort to disarm me gets me pretty hysterical all right.
A number of year ago, I attended a speech by one Arkady Shevchenko, then the highest ranking Soviet official to defect to the West. He had been their top guy at the UN.
He spoke, interestingly, at KENNESAW COLLEGE -- and we all know what Kennesaw is famous for!. I’m proud to have played a role in helping Mayor Darvin Purdy get that legislation through a reluctant City Council.
His talk dealt with the clear intent of the leadership of the old Soviet Union to somehow take America. He mentioned their ICBMs and the nuclear blackmail threat THEY posed.
Then he broke from his prepared remarks and offered this: "The leaders of my country are as AFRAID OF YOUR 200 MILLION PRIVATE FIREARMS as they are of your ICBMs. NEVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS."
Frankly -- and, while he had to be careful as he was under FBI protection at the time, Shevchenko alluded to this in his remarks -- I'm as concerned about some domestic tyrant (say, Hillary or Chuck Schumer) as I am about some foreign enemy.
Kennesaw Mountain Landis?
The map shows Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park as located mostly in Marrietta, GA, not in Kennesaw, but there must have been some fighting in 1864 within the city limits of Kennesaw, since every inch between Chattanooga and Atlanta seems to have been fought over.
Was Kennesaw in Newt's district when he was in Congress?