NYP:
What enables this dictatorship of the caliber-iat? A spineless Congress that puts re-election ahead of children’s lives, safe schools and the right to safety of law-abiding citizens.
The irony is that, if only members of Congress banded together against the NRA, they’d quickly find that the emperor-for-life has not only no hunting clothes but an empty magazine, too.
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The NRA’s dire warnings fuel a bizarre, all-too-common fantasy among its acolytes (I’ve been startled by how often I’ve encountered it). The scenario runs that either our government and military will turn on the population in a new civil war, or the government and military will suffer catastrophic failure — at which point our freedom will be preserved by out-of-shape, middle-aged men with AR-15s.
My fellow Americans, if our military can’t protect us, geezers with guns won’t.
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Also in the name of liberty, NRA supporters circulate carefully selected quotes from several Founding Fathers — Jefferson, Madison, Patrick Henry — in support of the notion of a well-armed population.
None of those cited served in the Continental Army that freed us from Britain. Each of them let others do the fighting for them.
Jefferson famously remarked that “the tree of freedom must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots.” He just didn’t want it to be his blood.
And each of those men was a slave owner. I’d take their rhetorical bravado with a very large grain of saltpeter.
Hey Ralph, I don’t cite Jefferson, Madison or Henry to justify my views of liberty, an armed public or the right to either defense of family or the amelioration of tyranny. I go right to the fountain of such rights. The constitution is just a covenant by which we’ve agreed to live together. If you want to break it, thanks for letting me know. I’ll make a mental note of it right alongside your name.
As for whether these men did or didn’t fight in that “continental army that freed us from Britain,” Francis Marion says hello.
Regarding those “middle-aged geezers with AR-15s,” I don’t really think you understand 4GW. In fact, I know you don’t. The U.S. Army is practicing 5GW because they never learned to win at 4GW. But in order to know that you’d have to be a military analyst, and you suck as a military analyst.
I always thought you were a crackpot. Now we have the proof. What are you doing – trying to beef up your creds for a gig at MSNBC or CNN? You never really believed in your oath of enlistment, did you? You knew all along it was a lie, didn’t you?
