Posted on 02/04/2009 11:59:36 PM PST by Don Joe
Monday, Feb 2, 2009 The Million Gunowner March
by Skip Coryell Last week I received the below email from a lady in Belgium who had just read my book "RKBA: Defending the Right to Keep and Bear Arms". She was distraught and discouraged because her beloved country was no longer what it used to be. Here are her words. "Another nutcase criminal entered a baby/little kid's daycare center... and he began to stab the kids with a knife! You know what the adults who are supposed to take care of the kids did? One was stabbed himself, but two others ran away. One hid behind a closed door and watched through the window while the kids got slaughtered and another one ran away and left the kids alone with the attacker! Two babies died, several kids badly wounded... The country is in shock, how is this possible? ...No one said anything about the cowardly behavior of the two adults who ran away. They told it like it was a normal reaction, a normal thing to do..." I can sense the outrage in her voice when I read her words. This woman, once a patriotic and proud citizen, was now a mere subject, and ashamed of what her country had become. Thanks to the miracle of gun control and pistol-free zones, two more babies are dead. I did some research and learned that in June of 2006, reacting to a racially inspired shooting in Antwerp, a Draconian gun ban went into effect in the country of Belgium. Citizens were required to turn over their firearms to police, without compensation, or, in the case of antiques, were required to render them permanently inoperable. In the words of my reader in Belgium "The country is in shock, how is this possible?" The answer is simple: cause and effect. When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. In this pitiful case the man didn't even have a gun. He was loaded down with knives; he was mentally ill, and he arrived at the crime scene on a bicycle, did his killing, and then rode away - on a bike. Folks this is sad and shameful. Six adults couldn't stop one crazy man with a knife on a bike. "One man with a gun can control 100 without one. ... Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms." - Vladimir Lenin - Apparently, one man with a knife can now control six people without. But then again, it's easy for us Americans to sit back and make fun of Europe. After all, we are the land of the free, the home of the brave. Right? Well, not so fast. In many states in America, including my home state of Michigan, the outcome would have been the same as in Belgium, because daycare centers are one of the hallowed and sacred pistol-free zones. (Sacred and revered, but only to law-abiding citizens, because criminals pay them no heed.) For two centuries, us damned Yankees have enfleshed the attitude of freedom and independence. But now, have we changed? Is Obama fiddling as Washington DC burns? In my opinion, America has lost much of its spunk, much of its spirit, and much of its grit. We have become less heroic and more sheeplike. We are no longer leaders, but followers. In light of the outcome of the last elections, have we become simply Euro-sheep? I am ashamed to admit that many of my fellow Americans have indeed succumbed to oppression and have lost their will to fight. They would rather have peace than freedom. I received another email just yesterday. It was from a fellow patriot who said: "I am a fellow gunowner and supporter of the second amendment. I have been chatting with a bunch of fellow gun lovers on the S&W forum about trying to get a million man march on Washington organized. Since I know very little about doing so, I thought I'd write you on behalf of all of us. We would like to get some help organizing such an event. We would like to be able to get the word out to as many gun owners as possible and encourage them to join us." That idea struck me as good, so I got involved. First, I emailed Ted Nugent and asked him to headline a "Million Gunowner March" on Washington DC. Here is his response: "It is time. IF coordinated with NRA, GOA, JFPOFO, MCRGO, SCI, NWTF, RMEF, DU, FNAWS, etc etc & all gunrights orgs, I would be proud to join/lead the fray!!!" This is how it works folks. Every revolution throughout history has always started with a single person. One ordinary person wakes up, looks around and says "Hey! This isn't right! Someone should do something! "And that someone is you and I. We are one small part of the Million Gunowner March. The next thing I did was email Chuck Perricone, Executive Director of Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gunowners and asked if they'd like to be involved. His response was similar to Ted's: "The answer is, "YES"...and we'd like to handle the press/recruiting. We can knock this out of the park. FANTASTIC idea, Skip." Hmmm, I see some possibilities here. I see excitement. I see motivation. I see patriots with guns! I see a peaceful (but loud) march on Washington DC, on the Capitol steps, down Pennsylvania Avenue, with Ted Nugent singing his electrified version of the National Anthem as loud as he can. Maybe I can get Toby Keith too? And I like that song by LC Greenwood "God Bless the USA". That one just brings chills to my tired, old, gun-totin' body. I'll have to check into that. In the meantime, I logged on and bought the domain name www.milliongunownermarch.com. It is my donation to the cause. Now, since I'm computer clumsy, we need someone to step forward and build the website. Any computer-savvy volunteers out there willing to build a website for us? You know the frustrating part of a movement, is that too many people wait for someone else to step forward and do what needs doing. It's known as the crowd mentality. People wait until it looks safe, then they step out and join. A few weeks ago I quoted Mark Twain, and it bears repeating. "In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." Well, America, this is the beginning of a change and it is no time for the timid. This is the time for brave men and women to stand up and be counted. Because, I just have a feeling, that America's time may be running out. I don't want to live in a nation of Euro-sheep. I want my children to inherit the freedom our forefathers knew. But freedom has to be protected or it will fall. I suspect, my freedom-loving friends, that we are at a crossroads. Now, assuming we are smart enough to see it, and that we are brave enough to take the road less traveled, perhaps, America, just perhaps, there is still time to save our liberty. The time to act is now. We must march now, or forever hold our piece (rendered inoperable by the government). So, I'll ask again. "Who's going to build that website?" Send your response to skipcoryell@hotmail.com. But please hurry, Obama is warming up his fiddle. Skip Coryell lives with his wife and children in Michigan. He is the author of six books including his newest "RKBA: Defending the Right to Keep and Bear Arms", the Ted Nugent-acclaimed book "Blood in the Streets: Concealed Carry and the OK Corral, the hunting novel "Bond of Unseen Blood", and the Second Amendment novel "We Hold These Truths". He is an NRA Instructor and co-owner of Midwest Tactical Training, teaching CPL classes in both Michigan and Iowa. He also owns and manages White Feather Press. To find out more about Skip, his classes and his writing, go to www.skipcoryell.com and www.mwtac.com. |
I respect your point...heaven knows how I rail at the NRA at times. But the discourse should be level-headed and rational and while I’ve heard Nugent speak, and he can be those things, I think Nugent depicts the red-neck stereotype that I would rather avoid. Just my opinion.
Would it keep me from attending? No. ;)
Perhaps both events could be held simultaneously ...one nation-wide and one local, for those who can’t go to DC.
If you need to start “tweaking,” stay home.
We already have the red-neck stereo-type, the Fudd stereo-type, and the Country Club old boys club stereotypes going on.
Getting someone loud, proud, and straight speaking out front will be a boon, not a bane.
Ah. “Sizzle” v “steak” .........the age-old question. Fall into the hands of the media antis and make their job easier. Yep. That’s the ticket.
“Armed security will have 30 more rounds in a detachable magazine after the one round in the barrel.’
Magazine schmagazin, they don’t have “a gun behind every blade of grass”.
What about marching on MSM complexes, so there's no doubt we know who our enemy is?
If you start letting your enemies dictate how you will protest, you’ve already lost.
You need to support the “nuts,” not disavow them, because if you don’t you can bet our enemies will change the definition of “nut” to anyone who is effective.
Look to the pro-life movement for lessons in what NOT to do.
“Apparently, one man with a knife can now control six people without.” ...
or a Greyhound full of Canadians.
Greyhound scraps ads after Canada bus beheading
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057574/posts
Leave it to you to be the first on this thread to "get it!"
How about local TV stations that are network affiliates?
Muzzle Ted?
WTH are you thinking?
Muzzling OURSELVES is what partially has gotten us in the deep crap-pile we’re in today.
Don’t even THINK of telling ME to “shut up and sit back”.
My father (RIP)held an FFL and did much gunsmithing, I've been shooting as long as I can remember, I just cannot imagine life without the shooting sports.
True. More coverage all around.
Tell me, how much media training do you have?
These issues CAN be addressed, but only by those who actually know how to do so.
Listening to every "chicken little" that thinks he has something to say will do nothing but dilute the informed opinions out there.
Washington DC AND State Capitols. Yes, Both.
I’m in, too. It would be fun, and who knows, maybe they’ll get the message.
And it sounds like a smokin’ opportunity for a cross-country motorcycle rally, to boot!
They'd have heavy weapons, or at least such as Ma Deuce, MK-19, as well as lighter weapons to protect them, at the bridges and on the highways leading into the city. They might do that the first time.
And a million is not enough. O had two million enraptured followers for his coronation on a freezing cold day.
Ask the Bonus Marchers. They suffered tear gas and a cavalry assault, horse cavalry. The troops were lead by General MacArthur, his aid Dwight Eisenhower and Major George Patton. The Bonus Marchers were not armed, and there were 20,000 or so of them. Now there is that directed energy weapon (millimeter wave) that makes you feel like you are on fire. It was designed just for such situations, albeit in Southwest Asia, not the Capital of the United States. But it would be used there, if the marchers are lucky, if not they'll use more lethal equipment.
Emerson once asked Thoreau, who was jailed for his beliefs, "Why are you in here?". Thoreau replied, "Why are you out there?".
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