Posted on 05/30/2018 2:31:44 PM PDT by rktman
Years back, I was a staunch gun control advocate. Last week, I joined the NRA and the Gun Owners of America, and I’m looking to join more Second Amendment advocacy groups. How did this evolution take place?
In 2014, I wrote articles for “The Huffington Post” titled “If ISIS Had Committed the 11 School Shootings Since Sandy Hook, Congress Would Have Declared War” and “What Gun Advocates Should Remember: You’ll Never Overthrow The Government and It Isn’t Scared of You.“
Rebuttals from numerous publications resulted from the latter piece, especially since it highlighted my disdain (at the time) for gun owners. “The American Conservative” published a 2017 piece by Grayson Quay titled “The Left Has the Stronger Case for Gun Ownership,” explaining my tunnel vision:
“The article, written by H. A. Goodman, contains some truly puzzling arguments about how the failure of the Whisky Rebellion proves the impossibility of a successful uprising … Since he never mentions it, I can only assume Mr. Goodman hasn’t heard of the successful American Revolution, which just a few years earlier had succeeded in throwing off British rule and establishing the very nation against which the Whisky rebels revolted.”
Interestingly, it took me until 2018 to realize that Mr. Quay was correct about the benefits of an armed populace.
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True, dat.
I have a couple of followers on Twitter that were Bernie Bros.
We get along great.
“Very few conservatives become liberals.”
Unless they are elected to public office
Announcing your surrender a bit early, eh?
Just announcing reality as it has always been cast by the good Lord.
Here
The real hell of it is as loyal Germans they would have built the atomic bomb for Germany if they were not prosecuted by the Third Reich. They were Germans first and Jews second. Our atomic bomb project in WWII was mostly German and East European Jews at the heart of the program. They had fled Germany and Eastern Europe and built the bomb for us.
He would have had much more human resources, and as you wrote, probably would have gotten the A-bomb first!
You can bet your rubber duck that the Mexicans would split the seen PDQ....
The biggest problem with the lefts’ proclamations that “You can’t fight the whole armed forces” is the assumption that you will be fighting against the entire armed forces. I have some serious doubts about that assumption.
Or in the Congress and Senate... :)
The “backlash” of fags means nothing to me. It’s not a fantasy at all. It worked in Iraq against the most powerful military in the world. It will work here as well.
The “backlash” of fags means nothing to me. It’s not a fantasy at all. It worked in Iraq against the most powerful military in the world. It will work here as well.
Oh, the legal backlash will mean a lot. And where do you expect to get a force even close to the Feds?
Reading comprehension is not your strong suit eh?
“A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.’’
--Planned Parenthood
I’ve always been a conservative but I didn’t grow up in a gun-owning family. When I started dating my husband, I was one of those people that thought “assault” weapons were unnecessary and more dangerous. He educated me and I am now willing to admit i was wrong.
It’s ok to be wrong. Just change and move forward.
Wow
... If intelligence chiefs like Brennan and Clapper can lie under oath without perjury charges, or James Comey can overlook Clinton’s private server (storing SAP intelligence) because of “intent,” imagine the extent of their chicanery with a disarmed population.
Excellent post...
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