Posted on 02/13/2013 7:39:51 AM PST by Kaslin
You’re snug in your cabin in the mountains outside of Big Bear, California. Snug, but fearful. They’re searching for a killer near you. A terrifying, heavily armed former cop from Los Angeles who has gone on a killing rampage.
Suddenly you hear gunshots. You part the curtains to look outside ... and there’s the man whose picture you’ve seen countless times on TV over the past few days running toward your house as he returns fire to police officers in pursuit.
Just a few weeks ago you had been considering buying an AR-15 just in case it might be needed to defend your home from predators of the two and the four-legged variety. They don’t call the place Big Bear for nothing. You couldn’t buy one, though, because private ownership of these weapons had been outlawed. That didn’t stop the killer. He was carrying one ... that along with several pistols. The law didn’t seem to deter him at all. The murderer was still far enough away that you could stop him with one shot through your window, but that option had been taken away by anti-gun zealots.
Somehow you don’t feel comfortable with only your handgun and it’s seven-shot magazine to protect you from this approaching danger. You know the killer, who is rapidly nearing your door, is much more heavily armed than you. Things aren’t looking all that rosy for you and your family right now.
Why did this have to happen? Why were these liberals -- these Democrats -- so hell-bent on reducing your capacity to act in your own self-defense in a situation just such as this?
Interesting question, isn’t it? Setting statistics aside -- the statistics on the number of people shot by lunatics on killing sprees versus the statistics on the number of times a civilian uses a privately-owned firearm to defend themselves every year, usually without ever having to pull the trigger – leaving those statistics aside, just what is it about the liberal Democrat mind that brings forth this primal fear, this hatred of the idea that a private individual would own a gun and use that gun in self defense?
I think I have some ideas here. Let’s share:
The liberal penchant for gun control starts with their obsession with controlling the lives and actions of those considered to be their inferiors ... and anyone not liberal is inferior. To amplify the point; progs believe that their innate intellectual superiority gives them a right to control the lives of the not-so-bright. You can only buy a 12 ounce soft drink, you ignorant fool. Stop putting all that salt on your food. You can’t negotiate your own contract with an employer. We’ll tell you how much you’re allowed to work for. Union membership is not a decision for you to make. We’ll make that decision for you. We know best. Do as we say and you’ll be just fine.
What amazing arrogance! Liberals (the more self-aggrandizing among them prefer the term “progressives” – I just call them “progs” or “proggies”) have the most dangerous of superiority complexes … superiority complexes coupled with power.
Now since liberals are entitled to use their superior intelligence to order and control your life, it stands to reason that they’re going to get their proggie panties in a wad when the great unwashed start to show signs of individualism and self reliance. And to a lib there is no act of independence and self-reliance that is more infuriating and alarming than the act of owning – and perhaps using – a gun for the purpose of defending your life and your freedom. How dare you accept the responsibility for your own safety?
And there you have the crux of this anti-gun effort the left and their Dear Leader are putting forth. The very architecture of this gun control campaign is based on an attack on individualism. These anti-gun zealots know their assault weapons ban will not save any lives. The last one didn’t, the next one won’t. They’re fine with that. Saving lives is not their goal. They know that background checks wouldn’t have prevented Sandy Hook, Aurora or almost any other mass shooting. They’re fine with that. Saving lives is not their goal. They know that not one gun control measure they have proposed would have stopped this rogue LA cop. No problem. Again, that’s not the goal they’re working toward. They know that the so-called “gun show loophole” is a complete fiction. Doesn’t matter. The media certainly isn’t going to call them on that, and it’s the best lie available for moving toward gun registration; which, history shows us (even in this country) leads to confiscation.
The left is trying to reign in a beast. Well, a beast in their eyes anyway. To a liberal -- to today’s progressive Democrat -- the independent freedom-loving and self-reliant American is a dangerous beast who must be controlled, a wild horse that must be broken. Individualism must be attacked and discredited. There was, after all, a reason liberal icon Ted Kennedy referred to and praised our “war against individualism!”
We’re supposed to all be a part of a team ... a team of well-behaved horses pulling the carriage of big government along. A headstrong horse that refuses to respond correctly to the master’s whip cannot be tolerated. A person with a strong sense of self-reliance and individual self-worth is, similarly, a dangerous and out of control wild animal that must be corralled … corralled for the common good. The person who celebrates their individualism, and the laws that protect their individual rights, is a threat to the Democrat holy grail of all-encompassing governance. The individual, the independent American, the self-reliant and freedom-loving troublemaker must be wrestled down and the bridle of government domination slipped over their heads.
Obama and the Democrats had their gun control plans ready long, long ago. The plan was ready to be implemented; they were just waiting for two things to happen.
First, of course, they had to re-elect Barack Obama. The second necessary element needed to be a crisis – a mass murder committed with guns – preferably so-called assault weapons. That first criteria – Obama’s reelection – would be the reason liberals didn’t implement their push against the Second Amendment when the shootings happened at the theater in Aurora, Colorado. Obama was still campaigning for his second term. Dang it! A crisis that can’t be exploited! But then, after Obama’s re-election, came Sandy Hook. That was it – prerequisites satisfied – it was time to move against guns.
Democrats love the term “gun violence.” You heard it last night during the State of the Union speech. Note, please, that the term refers to an inanimate object, the gun, not the person who used that gun to kill or wound. To cite the perpetrator would be to hold an individual responsible for their actions with the gun. In the liberal world this cannot be allowed. The instrument must bear the blame, not the individual using it, for you cannot hold an individual responsible for their actions without first recognizing the concept and free will of the individual in the first place. In the world of the left the gun commits the crime – the spoon eats the ice cream.
This isn’t about saving lives. It’s all about breaking the spirit of independent-minded and self-reliant Americans who still believe that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and that the term “shall not be abridged” is much more than a mere suggestion. Can that spirit be broken by the incessant hammering of the left and an obedient (or “legitimate,” as Joe Biden calls them) media pressing the left’s anti-gun message? Or have we reached the point where Obama and the Democrats have, perhaps, pushed their agenda a little to far and a little too hard.
As Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is reputed to have said after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." With a bit of luck – and maybe luck is what we have to rely on at this point – the same might be said of the left’s attack on the Second Amendment. Time, and the reaction of patriots, will tell.
The police were up against one of their own who is trained with weapons, knows how to use them, knows police tactics, and had no block to unlimited access. Yet, this criminal was still unable to put up any resistance to the police with whatever he had.
Somehow the government is still scared of Mr. and Mrs. America.
Great post! Spot on!!!
“Somehow, the government is still scared of
Mr. and Mrs. America.’
Tyrants are terrified of honest people with guns.
(Schoolyard bullies will always be schoolyard bullies.)
IMHO
Great things to think about. You probably don’t need a defense rifle because the fire will get you first. It seems like every crazy person with a gun is going off and killing people at this point. What’s up with that? Have they been given drugs that are timed to make them do this while our “legiscritters” yack about taking our rights away from us. My wife and I fought for our 2nd amendment rights during Klinton’s reign but this is beginning to look like a typical Zero appearance, where they hand pick who will be in the audience. It almost seems staged....... God help us all!
2,000 to 1. There were 2,000 LEOs surrounding the fat puke. I'm glad he's dead, but let's put things in perspective. There are maybe 60,000,000 gun owners in the U.S. with perhaps 10 million who are hard core 2nd Amendment types.
That's a 10,000,000 man militia right there vs 800,000 LEOs nationwide. It took any army of 2,000 to take out one guy. Maybe an openly tyrannical government could declare martial law and fly the Chinese PLA in to take our guns but I suspect there wouldn't be a treasonous politician or jackboot left alive when it was over.
BS
(If they disarm us any more and the SHTF someday, you'll know who to go looking for to address YOUR grievances. HINT: Look for the one running uphill in the Nike sneakers).
Revolt is coming.
while true, the progcomms are indeed suffering from a superiority complex, the naked truth is that they seek peasant disarmament to help them survive the hornets nest theyre kickin...
thats all there is to it, they need to have the monopoly of force to *get their way*...because they seek power...period...
sooner or later, its use em or lose em...
But who says all the members of the armed forces and police would follow the dictates of a tyrant like Obama? I would bet that if Obama issued such a decree, which I know he'd love to do, many people in the military would think about staging a coup. Certainly many, maybe the majority of military people side with 2nd amendment gun owners. In the case of civil war, you'd most likely have the great majority of armed citizens and the majority of the military on the same side. Many big city police department members would side with Obama, but most small town and country police would probably be with us as well.
excerpt ...
“The left is trying to reign in a beast. Well, a beast in their eyes anyway. To a liberal — to today’s progressive Democrat — the independent freedom-loving and self-reliant American is a dangerous beast who must be controlled, a wild horse that must be broken. Individualism must be attacked and discredited. There was, after all, a reason liberal icon Ted Kennedy referred to and praised our “war against individualism!” “
So far, they were all registered democrats, and one the child of registered democrats.
Oboma is a community agitator. That's how he gets things done. He "nudges" people into anger, or to act out in anger, and then uses that anger as a weapon against them.
Things are not going as planned. The right isn't who he thought, or was led to believe all his life, we were. We're not the ones taking up the arms. Instead, he's agitating his own irrational base (the people we've always thought they were.), and a lot of people are getting killed because of it.
We can't let it get that far. The tyrant and the treasonous, the ones GIVING THE ORDERS have to be removed (one way or another, peacefully or with prejudice), leaving the Jackboots leaderless.
Interesting....and long overdue.
I am beginning to see thoughts and certain words appear here on FR. Words and thoughts that in decades past would never have seen the light of day.
Perhaps these thoughts and words will, in my lifetime, lead to actions.
Again...Interesting and long overdue.
You part the curtains to look outside...
...because you're an idiot who doesn't know how bullets work.
When you hear gunfire, you get away from it, unless you are supposed to respond to it.
Still he killed 2, times that by one hundred thousand patriots equal two hundred thousand dead gun banners.
I do not think the police or military could handle two hundred thousand casualties.
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