GDQ: Are we circling the drain?
I can't help but wonder if we haven't waited far, far too long to "shoot the bastards," as Claire Wolfe so eloquently puts it. I know we've waited too long in California, now that it's only a matter of time---since our cowardly blunderminator-of-a-governor failed to veto the "Fifty-caliber ban"---till our cowardly "lawmakers" use this unconstitutional precedent to begin ratcheting that arbitrary caliber downwards.
I can just hear the annoying screeching, like fingernails across a chalkboard, from Boxer or Feinstein or one of their ilk: "...there is absolutely NO legitimate reason why any non-law-enforcement citizen could possibly NEED a forty-five caliber weapon, blah blah blah, all they're good for is killing police officers...blah blah...73% of bank robbers....blah blah blah...murdering children....blahbahda blah...17% reduction in crime since the Fifty-Caliber ban, blah blah blah...." and on and on, ad nauseum.
It'll make no difference that the whole nonsensical argument is nothing more than mush-headed gobbledygook; as we all know, facts are but a nuisance to be brushed aside, or ridiculed if they can't be ignored, when it comes time for political ranting. Sadly, even many of the so-called conservatives and neo-conservatives have become all too willing to begin exchanging, bit my necrotic bit, our constitutionally-guaranteed 2nd Amendment for "at least a little bit of only the most absolutely necessary common-sense gun control." Forget the fact that there is no such thing.
Alas, such is the result of a full generation of anti-gun propaganda ground into our innocent little minds by a generation of taxpayer-funded ivory-towerish educrats: even the neo-cons now believe that "Joe Sixpack" (that's you and me, by the way, regardless of your proclivity towards imbibement, your I.Q., or your criminal record, or lack thereof)just can't be trusted with such a destructive device, which, in the end, is "only good for one thing: killing." Come on, get with the program, comrades, what in heaven's name could you possibly need a firearm for? Especially when we have such a highly trained (not to mention ridiculously overpaid) and dedicated army of law enforcement types who have taken an oath to protect us from...well, from ourselves. Unfortunately our men in blue spend precious little time "protecting and serving" Joe and Jenny Sixpack, and are forced to spend far too much time performing the required bureaucratic nonsense, that is when they're not harassing us for smoking weed or driving too fast (across, say, New Mexico).
No, I'm not a cop-hater. I respect their courage, I don't envy their task, and (unlike many with a libertarian bent) I do believe there is indeed a legitimate function in society for them, albeit on vastly reduced scale. But, hey, when was the last time you heard about a cop in YOUR neighborhood actually stopping a crime in progress. Never? Yeah, ditto. Yep, all those countless hours at the range having a grand ol' time expending thousands of rounds of expensive ammo (paid for by Joe and Jenny's tax dollars), and what does the average cop do when he gets called to the scene of the crime? He writes out a report and tells Jenny to call 911 if the bad guys come back. He takes his gun with him and he leaves Jenny as powerless to protect herself as she was before he came to "Protect and Serve" her. End of story...until perpetrator comes back and kills her....or she gets smart (i.e. gets a gun) and kills him.
And what are our "lawmakers" doing their best to do? Well, they're doing their darndest to make sure that those few of us who actually UNDERSTAND the nature of all the aforementioned legislation against common-sense---AND understand that you and me, Joe and Jenny, really are, after all is said and done, on our own when it comes to protecting themselves and their loved ones---that we are disarmed. Period.
Yes, it may actually be too late to plug up this drain around which we as a culture are so rapidly circling, to arrest our freefall into the cesspool of government-imposed socialism...as a country. But it's never too late to resist it...as an individual...as Joe and Jenny Sixpack.
Jefferson
I can just hear the annoying screeching, like fingernails across a chalkboard, from Boxer or Feinstein or one of their ilk: "...there is absolutely NO legitimate reason why any non-law-enforcement citizen could possibly NEED a forty-five caliber weapon, blah blah blah, all they're good for is killing police officers...blah blah...73% of bank robbers....blah blah blah...murdering children....blahbahda blah...17% reduction in crime since the Fifty-Caliber ban, blah blah blah...." and on and on, ad nauseum.
It'll make no difference that the whole nonsensical argument is nothing more than mush-headed gobbledygook; as we all know, facts are but a nuisance to be brushed aside, or ridiculed if they can't be ignored, when it comes time for political ranting. Sadly, even many of the so-called conservatives and neo-conservatives have become all too willing to begin exchanging, bit my necrotic bit, our constitutionally-guaranteed 2nd Amendment for "at least a little bit of only the most absolutely necessary common-sense gun control." Forget the fact that there is no such thing.
Alas, such is the result of a full generation of anti-gun propaganda ground into our innocent little minds by a generation of taxpayer-funded ivory-towerish educrats: even the neo-cons now believe that "Joe Sixpack" (that's you and me, by the way, regardless of your proclivity towards imbibement, your I.Q., or your criminal record, or lack thereof)just can't be trusted with such a destructive device, which, in the end, is "only good for one thing: killing." Come on, get with the program, comrades, what in heaven's name could you possibly need a firearm for? Especially when we have such a highly trained (not to mention ridiculously overpaid) and dedicated army of law enforcement types who have taken an oath to protect us from...well, from ourselves. Unfortunately our men in blue spend precious little time "protecting and serving" Joe and Jenny Sixpack, and are forced to spend far too much time performing the required bureaucratic nonsense, that is when they're not harassing us for smoking weed or driving too fast (across, say, New Mexico).
No, I'm not a cop-hater. I respect their courage, I don't envy their task, and (unlike many with a libertarian bent) I do believe there is indeed a legitimate function in society for them, albeit on vastly reduced scale. But, hey, when was the last time you heard about a cop in YOUR neighborhood actually stopping a crime in progress. Never? Yeah, ditto. Yep, all those countless hours at the range having a grand ol' time expending thousands of rounds of expensive ammo (paid for by Joe and Jenny's tax dollars), and what does the average cop do when he gets called to the scene of the crime? He writes out a report and tells Jenny to call 911 if the bad guys come back. He takes his gun with him and he leaves Jenny as powerless to protect herself as she was before he came to "Protect and Serve" her. End of story...until perpetrator comes back and kills her....or she gets smart (i.e. gets a gun) and kills him.
And what are our "lawmakers" doing their best to do? Well, they're doing their darndest to make sure that those few of us who actually UNDERSTAND the nature of all the aforementioned legislation against common-sense---AND understand that you and me, Joe and Jenny, really are, after all is said and done, on our own when it comes to protecting themselves and their loved ones---that we are disarmed. Period.
Yes, it may actually be too late to plug up this drain around which we as a culture are so rapidly circling, to arrest our freefall into the cesspool of government-imposed socialism...as a country. But it's never too late to resist it...as an individual...as Joe and Jenny Sixpack.
Jefferson
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