Guns in America: A Question of Trust
Why are Americans attracted to guns? It there a uniquely dark side to the American character and American history? Is there a minority obsessed with destructive technology? Or is there a strange discontentment among those who, as the president put it while campaigning in 2008, “get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations”?
Tradition, technology and culture explain some but not all of the American attraction to guns. Another aspect, largely unremarked upon, is trust, or rather the pervasive erosion of trust in American society. Economic failure, social polarization, racial and ethnic fragmentation, and mendacity and malfeasance at all levels have brought about a lack of trust perhaps unique in American history. One result is arming in self-defense.
There is a palpable and well-deserved loss of trust in official institutions. The Department of Justice runs guns into Mexico for unknown reasons, loses track of them, people die on both sides of the border, and the attorney general lies to Congress about the affair. The secretary of the Treasury fails to pay his taxes but suffers no sanction.
Public policy is conducted in the tone of moral panic. “Wars” are declared on cancer, drugs, and terror; victory or defeat are never declared but billions continue to be spent, while critics are derided. Social engineering and its supporting cult of experts create a never-ending cascade of solutions to real and imaginary problems, which ripple across the landscape. From school-busing schemes that failed to resolve racial segregation to Section 8 housing vouchers that raised suburban crime, from mayoral regulation of Big Gulps, fat, and salt, problems are never solved, only displaced at vast cost. Failure destroys trust.
Science is not immune. Global warming is touted as the greatest threat to humankind only decades after global cooling was similarly hyped. It is only necessary to read headlines to see the blatant substitution of values for facts by media outlets, and their continual denigration and abuse of other viewpoints as primitive and evil. Meanwhile, decades of determined, caustic attacks on America’s Founders, Constitution, and history have successfully eroded a shared sense of history and citizenship, leaving only competition and mutual vilification. Civic duty and patriotism are defined solely as paying ever-higher taxes.
Trust in one another is eroded by things as simple as parking illegally in a handicapped spot or as desperately mundane as an SAT cheating ring. The routine grifting of union and corporate leaders, the hypocritical grandstanding about violence from Hollywood stars whose movies are never-ending gun battles, and the banality of dependence, entitlement, and violence that are so commonplace erode trust.
The list could be lengthened endlessly. Many Americans, perhaps most, have no trust in “the system,” the government, their “intellectual betters,” any social class, or, beyond families, neighbors, and friends, each other. The expectation is to be abused and screwed. Certainly many will regard this list, and the very assertion that trust has crumbled, as an expression of paranoia. Such dismissive responses, however, neatly illustrate the thesis.
Trust is earned. Trust is verified. Trust is maintained by social relations, predicated on mutual respect and apprehension, and buttressed by the least common denominators of self-reliance and deterrence. Trust is not built by declaration or fiat from above but slowly from the ground up. Relationships of trust require predictability rather than surprise. They are therefore continually tested and reassessed; they are never open-ended or without terms. Failure to deliver leads to their breakdown. In the absence of trust there is the coarsening of social relations, growing fear of one another, the unwillingness to believe again, and defensive behaviors. Like guns.
Extremes regarding guns are instructive; they are unvarnished, explicit, and often paranoid. “Preppers,” for example, express overt fear of social disorder and collapse. But does the ongoing collapse of societies such as Greece or Spain not suggest such fears are well-founded? To believe otherwise, that “it can’t happen here,” is a perverse inversion of an otherwise dismissed notion — American exceptionalism — by elites who deny and deride what those beneath them see with their own eyes.
Fixing the software that drives gun violence requires trust, between Americans and with their government. It requires, among other things, that government act in a legal and transparent manner and enforce reasonable laws, and that it be effective. When it inexplicably takes police 20 minutes – or possibly three minutes — to arrive at a school under attack by a mentally ill gunman, this destroys trust. When government officials vilify “Wall Street” and yet pocket their campaign contributions, this destroys trust. So too, when governments deny the role that religious ideology plays in international affairs, including attacks on America, discounting statements from the attackers that state plainly their motivations. And when governments respond to terrorism by monitoring the movements and behaviors of all Americans, privacy and trust are deliberately destroyed.
A rational policy towards guns would focus on mental illness, culture (and not simply easily pointed to video games but deeply embedded cultures of inner city, border, and drug violence), drug policy, and reasonable changes to existing gun laws. Instead the hardware is blamed and owners anathematized, made to “cower” in shame as if they are deviants and latent criminals.
The emotionally understandable but intellectually shallow desire to “do something” in the wake of calamities is not a recipe for developing intelligent public policy. New restrictions — for example on small metal boxes with springs, that is to say, magazines for semi-automatic firearms — is one such case. Such efforts make it clear, if restrictions on how many ounces of soda can be purchased in a single plastic cup have not, that government does not trust us.
Such efforts are also fundamentally un-American. They substitute dependence on government for individual autonomy, inculcate fear of others and of government instead of demanding responsibility and judgment, and erode liberty in favor of base populist emotionalism that ultimately supports an elitist tyranny.
More guns are being sold in America now than at any point in history, precisely because Americans are being told they cannot be trusted with guns. That alone should give pause.
Also read: The Distinction Between Sin and Crime
Forget ‘Gun Control’ what America should do is control degenerate ‘Black Culture’ a culture which deifies obscene, blasphemous licentious ‘Gansta Rappers’ and a “culture’ where 75 % of babies are born out of wedlock a ‘culture’ where Black Youths between the ages of 15 and 25 (think Trayvon Martin) who comprise LESS than 2% of the population yet who commit OVER 50% of all the murders and OVER 60% of all the violent crime in the USA.
Put aside Political Correctness stand up to the Race Hustlers and control BLACK CULTURE and you can cut murder and violent crime in HALF at a stroke.
There is no black culture. There are no black people. We are all human and belong to the human race called Homo Sapiens. You cannot tell from DNA what someone’s skin color is. If you disagree, you are a racist or a racialist (whatever difference that is). Give up the wedge language of the progressives. We are all the same race. Some of us have an unconstrained vision of humanity (per professor Thomas Sowell, someone with darker skin than mine…perhaps a more thorough tan?). That vision says that some believe that humans are perfectable through education. Thomas Sowell’s constrained vision agrees with those of us who believe that we humans are permanently imperfect and that education has limits.
“There is no black culture.”
What are you, NUTS?
If I recall correctly, Sowell argues that the root of what is commonly called black culture today was the Irish pugilist culture, which was painted onto blacks by Hollywood moguls, because said moguls needed to portray some form of black culture, and they had absolutely no idea what that culture was actually like, so they made up their own.
It’s kind of the same way all movie barbarians have Scottish accents, even though we’re mostly talking about the Germanic tribes.
Your words are both true, and false. The division into races may not be completely factual, but people believe in it and subscribe to it and divide themselves along those imaginary lines, and thus we have to regard the categories people divide themselves into as something real, even if it’s based on a falsehood.
Saying “Hey, we’re all human” wouldn’t save you from getting machine-gunned storming the beaches of Normandy.
(And you’re wrong if you say that DNA doesn’t control skin color. If not, what does? Genes control all kinds of things.)
Genuine black culture was destroyed by slavery and discrimination.
The equivalent to American Jews cherishing their history and culture from Europe would be African-Americans cherishing their history and culture from Africa. But that was suppressed. Christians replaced the African gods with Jesus. African history was not taught in public schools. Etc.
The children of European immigrants could learn about European culture and European history in public school. But rarely if ever could black kids learn about African culture and African history. Schools taught French and Spanish but not Swahili.
The answer to this disastrous recent inner-city upside-down culture, is for black kids to be immersed in African culture and African history, learn African languages, and become reconnected with their genuine heritage.
Except that we don’t want black kids to become African, any more than we want children of Italian or German ancestry to become Italian or German. We want all of them to become American. This doesn’t necessarily mean Christianization (although there are more Christians in Africa than in the U.S.) – like many people you confuse Christianity with Westernization. (Believe me, you do NOT want a bunch of African animists running around here!)
“Genuine black culture” SURVIVED slavery. It survived family units being sold apart. It survived black women having the children of white masters against their wishes (rape – usually non-violent, but with the threat of violence inherent in the master-slave situation).
“Genuine black culture” SURVIVED discrimination, at least the hard, Jim Crow variety. The success of the civil rights era was a show of strength for “genuine black culture”.
No, “genuine black culture” was destroyed much more recently and insidiously than that. It was destroyed by the mindset behind Affirmative Action, by the idea that black people simply can’t and need “help”. The help the wonderful, tolerant, high-minded liberals (who live in lily-white gated communities, far from the those icky lower life forms) gave them is what destroyed them.
And it will do the same to the rest of us, if we let. Convenience and racism made blacks the first target, but everyone else is still on the hit list for such wonderful “help”.
You forgot to include “Urban Renewal” that somehow always seemed to result in the destruction of “black” owned business districts. See “Hill District” in Pittsburgh cleared to build a domed hockey arena
first of all, what “Genuine black culture” are you talking about dolt,
next I know your white because you speak about the “Genuine black culture” like you KNOW exactly what it is, what a moronic thing to say.
Some might think the world would be a beter place if those goods would have been replaced by Jesus.
http://socyberty.com/law/disturbing-ritual-muti-killings/
Feel free to teach it your children and build a society on that.
Good luck.
So we should become more like Haiti , where the black slaves kept their religion and beliefs after their successful revolution ? Haiti still has slavery as well as abject poverty , endemic corruption and violence . You are free to think that witch doctors, voodoo, zombies, Baron Samedi and animal sacrifice are so much more enlightened than judeo-christianity , but that is obvious multi-culti nonsense.
There is very good evidence, as in the Bible, that Christianity was in Africa before it came to Europe. For the first four centuries of Christianity Africa was the leader in all things Christian. You’ve heard of Anthony, Augustine, Cyprian, Catherine, Maurice, Athanasius? All Africans.
“But rarely if ever could black kids learn about African culture and African history”
They could learn all they ever wanted to, if they went to the “Lie-berry” and cracked some books.
I was a history nut as a kid.
Knew 2 dozen World War One Pilots by NAME in the 2nd grade.
Types of aircraft they flew, engines, performance, evolution of armaments, you name it.
The Red Barron? I found his brother Lothar more interesting.
Had the same level of interest in everything from the Revolution to WW2 all throughout Grade school and I read all about it EVERY DAY in the “lie-berry” because IT WASNT TAUGHT IN SCHOOL.
I chose to read and learn on my own, because it was facinating, not because it was “assigned”
That desire to learn fueled my career choices, from the Military to Engineering.
Schools dont teach you to find your passion.
They teach you to READ and do MATH…the rest is up to YOU.
The reason Black kids rarely learned about African Culture is…
(drum roll please)
African Culture doesnt value learning.
If they did, maybe THEY would have invented the Airplane.
Unfortunately, there are distinct differences between races. Otherwise, all races would be proportionally represented in pro basketball, for example.
There are clear distinctions in areas like intellect as well.
What is important is to separate group characteristics from individual characteristics, something modern society is loathe to do. To do otherwise is to harm the truly outstanding in any group. Thomas Sowell is both black and brilliant. However, to force society into thinking that the percentage of black people of his intellect is equal to the percentage of brilliant Asians is unfair to Mr Sowell, for it undermines his exceptional achievements.
The Bell Curve has been backed up by science. Some time ago, a scientific journal had an article on genetics and evolution. Turns out that there is a gene for enhancing brain growth that is found in most Homo Sapiens. Most, but not all. Buried deep in the article was the qualifier. “This gene is present everywhere except in sub-Saharan Africa.”
We are doing a great disservice to all people by promoting “equality of result” among groups instead of helping each individual achieve their potential.
We are also doing a great disservice to the victims of gun violence by ignoring the underlying reasons why Detroit resembles Mogadishu more then it does Pittsburgh.
“This gene is present everywhere except in sub-Saharan Africa.”
Obviously a Racist statement.
“Otherwise, all races would be proportionally represented in pro basketball”
There is a rational hypothesis to explain this although to even suggest it will bring charges of racism (I actually think it is the opposite of racism and certainly none is intended on my part).
Dramatic interference by others in the natural selection and reproduction activity of a population can have noticeable impact on the characteristics of that population over a relatively short time period. Think of the ancestors of many American Blacks. First the slave traders selected out certain of them for their apparent ability to do work. Then they had to survive the horrible journey to the new world. Finally they lived many generations in a sub-culture where strength, size and physical prowess were the prized and rewarded attributes.
This may have increased the average or mean abilities of the group in some areas while decreasing it in others. And by “average”, I mean to say precisely that. I do not mean to imply that any given member isn’t capable of lofty intellectual achievements like the aforementioned Thomas Sowell and many other blacks throughout our history.
It is important to look at this because – as has been suggested elsewhere in this thread – Progressives appear determined to continue such interference, albeit in a different form and under cover of “good intentions”.
First, it may very well be possible to determine race from DNA:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dnaprint?currentPage=all
Second, there is an urban culture, “thug culture” if you like, that derives mostly from blacks. There is a reason, having nothing to do with racism, that blacks are represented in criminal statistics at a rate far exceeding their numbers in the general population. Putting an end to that culture would do great things for blacks and society in general.
It should be noted that black people of African descent in France and Britain have extremely different cultures than those of inner-city blacks in America. It is a cultural phenomena, not genetic.
Oh look, a creationist.
How predictable see what happens when you point out the TRUTH lots of Left Wing moonbats and RINO’s rush to make EXCUSES or to hide their heads in the sand to try and avoid it.
Hannity was just on Fox discussing the fact that most of the most violent cities in the USA have things in common i.e. Democratic control and the tightest gun laws but even he ran scared of the Race Hustlers and the excuse making moonbats by failing to address the ‘Elephant in the room’ by ignoring the fact that these cities also have large urban BLACK populations too and that that is where MOST of the violence takes place. Why because BLACK CULTURE worships at the shrine of fatherless male machismo and violence towards women and others.
“There is no black culture”
I dare you to tell that to one of them. And there are 3 distinct races for your enlightenment and edification.
I won’t tell you….look them up yourself because you need to learn that.
The foregoing statement is absolutely correct. In addition to having the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, we have the right to be free from a “culture” such as that described above. Instead of working to help these people (those few of them who want to change), the government under Obama is doing everything it can to reduce everyone to their level while supporting “Holder’s People” in whatever they do. The guns are there and will be there. We must change the people. Another matter which our beloved leader doesn’t seem concerned with: the suicide rate among veterans. I read yesterday the rate is 18 a day. Being a 2 year two war vet I suspect much of these suicides is over-exposure to combat tours where the rules of engagement expose the soldiers and marines to extraordinary hazards without any chance of winning, and with no support from the so-called Commander in Chief. Execute the shooters and support the veterans.
As offensive, repulsive, fowl and vile I find your statement. There is no part I can even try to disprove. As a matter of fact, I agree with most. I am a Black Man, and I do the best I can to stay on this side of the law. The only argument I can offer is that it’s hasn’t been that long since the idea of our race, changed from animals to human beings. I believe that many of us are still learning how to act. So, I humbly ask, that you please work with those of us who do, so we both can tolerate the ones who are just in the process of “coming around”.
There are some pretty nutty Whites too…..
Restoring the Black Family will require taking on the feminazi establishment. An uphill battle.
“fowl” ‘Fowl’ where did I mention chickens????? Which brings me to another point regarding far too many Blacks – not only are they uneducated but they take PRIDE in not getting educated and whats more they use violence and peer pressure to stop others getting an education too.
So, you don’t like Black metal. What has that to do with the Second Amendment?
What a sham of a scam of a travesty.
Like our noble, honorable President, I’m all in favor of confiscating every gun out there. I hate guns. Guns are more dangerous than terrorists strapped with explosives. After all, they’re people, too who I’m sure have just grievances against the United States.
I’m especially hostile to U.S gun makers, many of whom made the weapons that made war on peace loving nations like Germany and Japan in the 1940′s as well as peace loving, Allah worshipping Muslim nations more recently.
Americans with guns even murdered some peace loving Muslims in Benghazi who wanted a tour of the American embassy last September 11 as well as to extend their regrets for the counterattack years before on September 11, 2001.
Forgive me. I have to laugh. An aside.
I’d always thought Americans were supermen who could fly. I guess I was proved wrong when they jumped out of their buildings like baby birds leaving their imperialistic nests before they were ready. That splat sound makes me laugh every time I think of it. It’s funnier than Dave Lettermen on a good night.
But back to the serious stuff.
I have to tell you; my hostility rose to a fever pitch when I saw this ad running in U.S. gun as magazines as well as other widely read periodicals.
The headline reads, “Target the second amendment and you may find yourself looking down the business end of this Winchester X3 gas operated autoloading shotgun.
The visual really spooked me.
Maybe you’ve guessed, the visual is that infamous photo you’ve all seen of Obama standing like a proud American; shooting as the smoke billows from the horrible weapon.
The first line of the body copy made me cringe. It started off.
It’s his weapon of choice.
“It’ll take a skeet out of the sky at 75 yards”, says President Obama, and put down a wood-be robber coming through your door at 10 feet. Continues the President, “Just the sound of that first cock is enough to make most dirt bags take off running.
But Obama doesn’t stop there. He goes on to preen proud as a peacock.
“A more topical selling point: “A guy standing at the front door with one of these babies will protect your school children till the cows come home. I felt bad when I made that speech at Sandy Hook School because I never got around to talking about the protective aspects of my new Winchester. Which is as safe as a baby in a mother’s arms.”
There’s about 100 more words in the body copy, but the point is made, and I am so disappointed that the President would stoop so low as to endorse any kind of weapon. The ad is signed by Winchester so you know it’s legitimate.
See, I had high hopes that, between the new Muslim American hating TV station just sold by Al Gore, “English Al Jazerra”, MSNBC and the rest of the U.S. Obama media except, of course, for Fox, we could put the U.S. nation and people in a defenseless state.
Besides confiscating all guns (with Obama’s help), we were ready with plans to swamp the Army with female combat troops who promised either to surrender at the first sign of danger, or to turn on their male colleagues and kill them. Maybe, ironically, with weapons made by Winchester. But, as they say, at least as Robert Burns once wrote,”the best laid plans of mice and men”….you know the rest.
Sadly and wistfully, with President Obama so to speak appearing to be changing horses in midstream, coming out fore-square as a pro-gun pro second amendment supporter, we must consider another way to work to destroy America.
An armed America is a dangerous America. I’ve never been so disappointed in my life.
Not one word of this can be reconciled with observable, measurable reality.
I keep looking for the /sarc tag, or perhaps a link to the Onion.
Not having observed either, I think this comment is ample evidence for the wisdom of the Second Amendment, as this kind of warped thinking seems to me to be prevalent within our government at this moment in time.
The Second’s true purpose is to stand as a final bulwark against the tyranny of the state, a tyranny that is showing its new found plumage – proud as a peacock, you might say.
I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt and assuming the /sarc tag was implied by being so over the top.
C’mon, man, do you need a /sarc tag? It was clearly dripping with sarcasm.
EO, go and spend come time reading the threads at the Daily Kos. I’ll guarantee this little essay would fit right in over there.
Copy and paste it (the whole thing) over on dailykos. I’ll lay almost any odds that you will be seen as attacking Dear Leader.
The best satire is that which cannot be positively identified as satire.
This was not the best then as it was rather obvious by it’s extremity. I quess the author figured some would not get that it was satire unless he made it more obvious than he probably otherwise wanted to. And some still missed it.
I had to read this several times to make sure I’ve come to the proper conclusion. Now I have to stop laughing, what a wonderful piece of sarcasm.
Your final conclusion is indeed true… our administration has deemed “An armed America is a dangerous America.”
I’ve never been so disappointed in my life (in the uninformed and over educated masses reelecting this poser).
What I can say for sure is that you are pretty stupid. Those “peace loving” countries of Germany and Japan, had been waring on their neighbors since 1935. Both their intentions were to exterminate and enslave the entire world. The Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor(Dec 7 1941), was what dragged us into WWII. It was our industrial might that fed the world, while we manufactured the tools that destroyed the Axis powers. Look up “The Rape of Nan-King”. Look up “Dachau, Treblinka, Sobe-Bord, The Handschar and Skanderbeg SS div. and Japan’s UNIT 731.
What I can guess is, your probably one of those trash-bag wearing, fat cows that can only spout out what they were indoctrinated with. Any logical thought process is foreign. Just a little research invalidated 3/4 of your statement. You’d know that if you had a brain.
Good satire. Unfortunately, it is not that very far from actual antigun posts. Poe’s Law indeed.
Trust today’s left/liberal progressive bureau-rats? “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’,” as Ronald Reagan said. They want to take our guns for the same reason King George III did and probably not for any better purpose.
Trust starts at the stop so look no further than our current liar president community organizing America hater. He is assisted in the continuing dumming down of the citizenry to the point where rational people do not believe what they are seeing. Black is white. Wrong is right. Down is up. Lies are really the truth. This is happening in plain site and it is truly frightening. Our economy sucks, our debts are doubling every 5 years, we are literaly bankrupt but in Obama’s world and according to the MSM everything is fine. In an embassy in Benghazi four people are dead and our Sec of State shouts “whats the differenc”. The people in charge of this country today are liars, criminals, and power mongers. We the people need to be controlled in their eyes. No wonder we are concerned. It is obvious to rational people.
I thoroughly agree; well said, particularly the “obvious to rational people”.
Something on the same topic: an explanation of why it’s inevitable for people to turn to guns when trust in society crumbles. Not “likely” but “inevitable”.
http://impliedinference.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/natural-right-of-self-defense/
Nor should Americans trust the system.
Over here in Britain they have disarmed the citizenry and now treat them with a level of contempt usually reserved for cockroaches.
Now we reached the stage of political prisoners being taken. One high profile example is described in,”Unacceptable Radical” at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/
Joe Biden 1/31/2013: “Nothing we’re going to do is going to fundamentally alter or eliminate the possibility of another mass shooting or guarantee that we will bring gun deaths down to 1,000 a year from what it is now”
Look no farther than that one statement to show why Americans do not trust the current push for new gun control laws or bans. Unfortunately, my fear is that too many gun owners are sitting around thinking that the 2nd Amendment will protect them. It won’t. Sadly, because of their complacency, within a few years America is destined to go the way of the UK and Australia on guns. They will be all but gone. It’s been the plan of the elites all along. They will promise safety in return for taking away peoples guns, and the little sheeple will believe them.
On 1 (one) internet gun auction site that I am familiar with, between 800 and 1000 AR-style rifles are being sold per day, every day, 7 days a week… And that’s just AR-style rifles, it doesn’t include semi-auto pistols, semi-auto shotguns, or any other type of rifle, pistol or shotgun… The amount of ammunition being sold every day on this same site is staggering… Go down to the local Wal-Mart or Bi-Mart or Big-5 today and see if you can by a box of 22 shells… I’m betting you can’t…
Do you think the people that are buying all this stuff are just gonna hand it over to King Obama when he gives the order ?? When a douche-bag hypocrite like Diane Feinstein gives the command to “turn em all in”, will they all get turned in ?
Some will, for sure… But some, probably most, will not
What Joe Biden was saying is the same thing every Gun Control Activist says
( when they are being honest….)
“Look folks, criminals will always do this, right?
We all know Gun Control isn’t about saving individual lives.
Its about creating the kind of citizen/government relationship we’d prefer over the one that currently exits”
“We need to ban guns because we WANT to ban guns.
We need to remove this right from The People because we WANT to remove this right from The People”
“We just can’t picture in our (Leftist/Elitist/totalitarian) minds how a Proper System of Governance can possible contain such a Wild Card of Autonomy for every single Joe, Jill Jane out there..its just preposterous.”
“Sure, Hunting and Sport Shooting activities happen, just like Bowling and Baseball, but we don’t have “base-ballers” claiming their sport is an important co-equal part of the government/citizen equation. We all know the “good-guys” dont misuse their weapons, but that doesn’t CHANGE the fact they ought not to HAVE them in the first place, does it?”"
“So this insane notion that “freedom” means having the RIGHT to a firearm has got to go. No Government (that we can imagine) can possibly function AS INTENDED, while simultaneously permitting the very tool of its own demise to exist as a “right” among the people its trying to (control) govern. The ultimate authority OF that government is hopelessly undermined by such an arrangement, and we’ll never accomplish all of the other more important things we (want) need, as long as thats the case.”
“The Second Amendment is in the past. We all know, we all accept, that in (name any date) you HAVE no right to challenge your Government…. its here to STAY, and all this nonsense about Checks and Balances, and an Armed Deterrence to Tyranny, is a Red Herring and quite frankly, scary as hell to normal people”
“I wish we could all get along and see things the same way, I really do…but the people who threaten The Government with their Autonomous Notions of “Overthrowing Tyranny” if push comes to shove, really need to have that power taken away. Its just too dangerous an idea for common people to have. Who do these Maniacs think they are?”
“So, as sad as it was for the individuals involved, we have to thank God for that Massacre in Newtwon… because its finally given us the push we’ve been waiting for, to do whats been needed for a very long time.”
“We are in charge. We make the decisions. We’ll do whats best for the Country…
and you know we’ll do the right thing(s) because we all think alike, don’t we?”
THIS is how they think….
And why they need to be STOPPED before its too late
I would venture a guess here that people are buying firearms for the same reason the second amendment was included in the Constitution of the United States. I don’t know about other folks but I have absolutely no trust in our current administration. I think they are actively seeking a way to declare a national emergency so the emperor can dictate what he wants done to law abiding American citizens that have never committed a crime other than an occasional traffic ticket.
As a side note, I read an interesting article in the WSJ. It is about how farmers and towns people living far outside Mexico City have taken matters into their own hands. The drug cartels have become so prevalent and the government has shown they can do nothing about it, so these folks have begun to do something about it. I applaud their efforts.
With Mexico having very strict gun control laws, two towns have decided enough is enough and have taken matters into their own hands.
I agree with the article’s author that what is lacking is trust. I see DHS giving out descriptions of possible domestic terrorists and I fit 7 of the 10; one is to have a CCW, another is believing in possible economic collapse and preparing for it. I also see the NDAA of 2013 allowing the government to declare someone a domestic terrorist and having the military (against federal law) imprison them indefinitely with no charges. Yep, that makes me trust this administration.
Did I say I met 7 of the 10 reasons to suspect me of being a domestic terrorists and I am a veteran to boot. Why should I trust the government to protect me from anything, when I am a possible terrorist in their mind.
And now we hear that DHS is purchasing 7000 ARs for personal protection and Feinstein’s proposed law would exempt government officials. Even more trust invoking is having DHS determine when the borders are secured to start the new amnesty program. The promises in the 1986 amnisty that were violated by liberals really make me trust government in this latest effort.
So the government arms their people and wants to disarm citizens. What in these actions causes anyone with a clear head to not wonder why government would do that. Yea, we can wonder until we are defenseless and government totally controls our lives.
As late as 1960, a Gallup poll found that 60% of Americans responded that they could trust the Federal Government “to do the right thing” most of the time. But that was a generation coming off of our victory in World War II, the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift, nuclear supremacy, the Boeing 707 jetliner, the pioneering of TV and computers, and the Interstate Highway System. All of which worked out pretty well.
That trust was squandered when the Federal Government started to really fail: The Vietnam disaster–the first war in American history that America lost–is responsible for a lot of the cynicism that set in later. But there are plenty more highly visible failures:
The failure of the “War on Poverty” to do anything other than plunge America’s cities into crime and decay.
The disintegration of *two* Space Shuttles on nationwide TV, with a loss of 14 astronauts.
The 80% decline (from a 1950 baseline) in manufacturing employment–despite a 50% rise in population–to the point that “Made in USA” has become a rarity at Wal-Mart and Target.
The mixed–shall we say–results from the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. Etc.
In discussions with liberals who keep angling for more and more programs, I have told them that to get public support for more Government programs, public trust has to be regained in the Government’s ability to do anything right domestically. And to do that, liberals have to wait on new programs, and work to reform existing programs to make them work well and successfully and efficiently.
Needless to say, they didn’t like that.
The part that is both sad and revealing is that, despite horrendously managing that war (retaking the same ground many times, and other such stupid and wasteful-of-GIs-lives type things), militarily, the US won that war*… then, convinced by the media that we’d lost, we declared defeat and went home.
The change in the media, and the changes to the political class in response to that, is really what changed, I think.
* North Vietnamese records that have become public in the last 10-20 years show that they knew they were beaten, to the point of considering outright surrender. The Tet Offensive was, military, an unmitigated disaster for the the North, a last gasp that used up what little strength they had left. These things were knowable at the time (particularly how one-sided the results of Tet were), but no one wanted to
The Pentagon, over-coming all obstacles from across the river, and within its own walls, won the war on the ground; only to see Capitol Hill throw it all away as the real Chicken-Hawks in the Majority Party (can you spell D.E.M.O.C.R.A.T ?) ran from it as fast as they could.
Damn Right…
Its been the perpetual leftward tilt of Politics, with Democrats becoming full-on Commies and Republicans RINO’s, thats spelled disaster for us.
Read ANY JFK speech on taxes, the economy, or world affairs and he sounds like a “right wing Tea Party nut-job” by todays standards.
You summed it up correctly.We have completely lost our trust in our government and our leadership. Where there is no trust the is no sense of security and well being and we revert back to our sense of independent function and self security and protection.
In short, if the government will not trust the people with arms, why should the people trust that only the government be armed?
No one else has mentioned this, so I will.
Anybody can pull a trigger and make a gun go bang, and if the gun happens to be a shotgun and the target is ten or twenty feet away, that’s good enough for home and personal defense. If the target happens to be an empty soda can 35 yards away and the gun is any kind of pistol, you can either get lucky or work long and hard at hitting the can more than once in awhile. If the target is a soda can 150 yards away and the gun is a rifle and your goal is to put a new hole in the can with every shot, you should bring along lots of ammunition and patience, because it’s hard to shoot well.
Here’s another reason the shooting sports are so popular: if you’d like to hang out with trusting, trustworthy, generous, gregarious, genuinely kind people, join a gun club. We’re people you’ll soon wish you’d been friends with all your life.
“Anybody can pull a trigger and make a gun go bang, and if the gun happens to be a shotgun and the target is ten or twenty feet away, that’s good enough for home and personal defense. If the target happens to be an empty soda can 35 yards away and the gun is any kind of pistol, you can either get lucky or work long and hard at hitting the can more than once in awhile. If the target is a soda can 150 yards away and the gun is a rifle and your goal is to put a new hole in the can with every shot, you should bring along lots of ammunition and patience, because it’s hard to shoot well.”
You’ve hit on an important point. You can defend your home against intruders with a shotgun. You can defend yourself against street crime with a pistol. But to defend yourself against well-armed and trained opponents, you need a rifle.
Note that they’re not trying to ban shotguns or pistols. They’re trying to ban rifles, which are used in virtually no crimes. What does this tell us?
I have gone rapidly from worrying that I was getting paranoid to worrying that I’m not paranoid enough.
Rifles were essentially immune from restrictive legislation throughout the supposedly violent era of the Civil Rights movement, and so on. Attempts to ban rifles of different sorts only really began in the 1990s. I blame Operation Desert Storm.
Up to that time, governments (including ours) understood that to prosecute a war, they needed infantry armed with rifles, especially if they wanted to fight a “limited war”. (An oxymoron if there ever was one; the last “limited war” was probably the one between the Egyptians and the Hittites in Seti I’s time, about 1285 BC. Both sides ended it by declaring victory and going home.) Every war fought from the invention of gunpowder on started out with, as W.H.B. Smith put it, a government handing its adult male citizens each a rifle, a uniform, and a demand for obedience.
What changed with Desert Storm was that for the first time, an army was pretty much destroyed on the ground by airpower, missiles, artillery, and finally armored warfare. Granted, the last required mechanized infantry, but to politicians with no significant understanding of war-fighting on land it looked like the high-tech weapons had finally rendered the foot soldier obsolete. (I would point out that President George Herbert Walker Bush was a Naval aviator, not an Army officer, and that the rest of his cabinet were equally unfamiliar with land warfare.)
Since, the reasoning went, the politicians no longer needed riflemen to fight their wars, why should they permit the citizenry to retain rifles as a potential threat to… the politicians?
Obama’s infatuation with drones and “push-button warfare”is a logical extension of this. Since he can kill anybody he wants to with a drone strike, anywhere on Earth, he concludes that he has no need for infantry riflemen. And thus no desire to see Americans retain the ability to possess a weapon he sees primarily as a threat to the power structure he is carefully crafting to replace the existing one.
In a recent essay,
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/01/23/futuristic-blues/
Walter Russell Mead argues that the traditional “blue paradigm” of liberalism has changed. Rather than progressives believing that they can uplift everyone to their exalted level, they now hold that there will always be a need for a “ruling class”- themselves- who will control and guide everyone else “for their own good”. In short, their mantra is rather like that of the Fracotti Brothers on Monty Python’s Flying Circus; they say “we want to take care of you“.
Of course, in American gangster argot, that phrase has two entirely different and diametrically-opposed meanings, depending on the context.
To go further, the “enlightened elite” today do not just want to disarm us. They want to abolish most of our technological civilization, and a big chunk of humanity with it. They stopped worshiping any sort of god a long time ago. Today, they think that the Earth is a conscious entity they call “Holy Mother Gaia”, and that humanity is a parasite thereof. (Except for themselves, of course.) What do not worship “Her”, mostly worship themselves. (Obama is not unusual in this, except in the profound depths of his narcissism.)
They are convinced, based on their dogmas, that they can have all the “toys” they love, from iPods to Starbucks, without any infrastructure to support same. In their minds it all just “exists” because they want it to. They also believe that this will all work perfectly well with a much smaller population- about one-one-hundredth of the present 7.063 billion the UN estimates.
They need to read more SF. In his novel There Will Be Dragons, the first book of the Council War series, John Ringo points out that in the past there has never been an agrarian society that, short of famine, did not have explosive population growth, simply because agrarian societies are labor-intensive and somebody has to do the damned plowing, planting, and harvesting year-round. (Real-life case in point; the Third World of today, especially South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.)
Conversely, technologically-advancing societies tend to have low population growth rates, as people (especially women) have other things to do besides raising children.
(NB; most feminists who are also deep-ecology true believers have never taken a hard look at the actual lives of women in primitive agrarian cultures; there are thousands of poor farm-wives for every queen. And only one may sit on a throne at a time.)
Ringo further states that there has only been one society that, over multiple generations, combined technological advancement with expanding population. That was (surprise!) not Imperial China (which had strict controls on development), but Victorian England, which had tight controls on the importation of people (immigration) and even tighter controls on the exportation of technology. For instance, prior to the American Revolution it was illegal for skilled workmen in the textiles trade to take their tools and knowledge to the American Colonies, including Canada. After the Revolution, it was illegal to take them anywhere out of Britain, period. One smart engineer got around it in 1785 by sailing for Virginia under an assumed name, and on arrival spent three years building a textile mill from scratch, from memory. Quite a feat, when you think about it.
Of course, Britain is an island, so movement can be controlled, even today; information, not so much. The United States is a very different story, for reasons having more to do with geography than anything else.
And, as Ringo states, even the British only managed to make it work for a bit more than a century. The paradigm ended, rather abruptly, at Passchendaele Ridge.
All of which together means that the “enlightened elites’” dreams of control, rule, and the “neutering” of the populace into obedient serfs is probably not possible in reality. Short of an oppressive regime’ that would make Ming Dynasty China look like a love-in on Big Sur in the Sixties.
However, that doesn’t mean that they won’t do their utmost to attempt it. After all, they live by their dogmas, and their lust for power.
Not by what reality tells them. That they flatly refuse to believe.
clear ether
eon
eon,
Thanks for that. Your writing is always so clear and thoughtful. I always learn something.
en Sauce
How bourgeois… .
…because it’s hard to shoot well…
Two replies:
“If it wasn’t hard, anyone could do it!”
-A League of Their Own
A musician lands at JFK and get into a cab, asking the cabbie “Do you know how to get to Carnegie Hall?”; and the cabbie responds:
“Practice, practice, practice!”
Sorry if I missed something, but your examples don’t directly address why rifle control is bad for self-defense, especially for women and smaller people.
At 10-20 feet buckshot (birdshot is not an effective defensive round) out of a shotgun has a spread less than the size of your fist (1″ per yd or so after the first few yards), you still need to aim.
Given that most shotguns are comparatively heavy and unwieldy for shorter people with lower upper body strength (read: many women), kick harder, curiously have a greater chance of over-penetration than 5.56, and have a lower magazine capacity; the lightweight, ergonomic, almost no felt recoil, higher capacity (30 rounds means little need to reload during a crisis), semi-auto (no fumbling with the slide), AR rifle with an adj. stock is a much better choice for home defense, particularly for the “one gun” family.
Conversely, while hitting a soda can with a pistol at 35 yds takes practice, as does hitting a soda can at 150 with a rifle, learning to repeatedly hit a man-sized target from 3 yards out to 35 is much easier with the longer sight radius and stabler shoulder mount of the AR compared to the pistol. And again, the rifle will have a higher magazine capacity, so less fumbling for a mag change under stress, more stopping power, better sight systems, and lower felt recoil than the more difficult to master pistol in effective calibers.
Anyway, not meaning to criticize, we’re on the same team, but with Biden recommending double-barrel shotguns for disasters, and McCarthy saying women can’t “handle” AR rifles, the above general truths need to be pointed out as often as we can.
One of my FB friends pointed out that given the nature of things we REALLY have to worry about, which assault our justice, our liberty, and our pocketbooks, guns are a small distraction that help us pretend that we have some answer to the Big Banks, Wall Street, huge multinational corporations, offshoring, inflation etc.
Guns are an easy default position, sort of like whistling past the graveyard. Hell, I have some and I want to keep them, but to me they are only tools, not talismans. A gun is a simple thing, which you can buy, possibly train with, and feel a little better about things. That’s a lot simpler than dealing with the larger forces, but then, we can only do what we can do.
Over a 500,000 guns are stolen each year going to the streets to commit about 60% of felonies involving guns of the nearly 23,000,000 felonies committed each year. I’m guessing about 500,000 people don’t cheerish their guns all that much to have them presumably, easily stolen. Hopefully, at some point there will be legislation with serious consequences for allowing a gun to be stolen and an even more serious consequence if your stolen weapon results in a bodily inujury or homicide crime. That should stop a lot of ‘access’ to guns by all those felons and others barred from ownership, eh?
One of my liberal relatives spouts the party line that “if you’re afraid the gubmint is coming to get your guns, having an assault rifle won’t save you, they can bring bigger guns and more people.”
He is right. What he doesn’t understand is the thought that in that unimaginable situation I could take down more than a few before they took me is immensly consoling.
I don’t own a Bushmaster, or similar rifle, but if I want one, I should be able to buy one. And if Jug Ears Hussein thinks he is going to take my family heirlooms, some of which really were military weapons, he had best pack a lunch.
Two things drive gun control: 1. it is the epitome of centralized government control. America’s Leftist “leaders” know what is best for us and will protect us–but of course if a few of us die so what. 2. the Leftist comtempt of white middle class America. Guns will be used to protect this hated group from the victims of society who can’t help being thieves, rapists, etc. It is just unfair to kill a thug because the Middle Class created him with its racism, oppression, etc.
“If you disarm your subjects, you begin to offend them, for you show that you do not trust them, either because you are weak and cowardly or because you are too suspicious. Both of these reasons cause you to be hated.”
-Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Ch. XX.
He also stated that any prince who did not trust his people to be armed would be forced to employ mercenaries, both as his army and to protect him from his own people. Machiavelli did not like mercenaries;
(Quoted in Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Beam Piper.)
Obama & Co., with their “domestic security force as big and well-funded as the military”, may think they’ve found a way around this. And such a force “oppressing” the American people wouldn’t be “against their intentions”, anyway; just the opposite.
That just makes it more likely that it would boomerang on them, with interest.
clear ether
eon
I live in New York City.
God only knows how little Mayor Bloomberg or anyone likely to run to replace him when he finally leaves office can be trusted. Even if those successors have the best of hearts, their minds are weakened by ideologies that are more of the same and have just not worked.
No, it is the individual police officer and fire fighter I trust. They are with rare exceptions professionals who do their very best with the resources at their disposal.
I also know that there are neighborhoods that are safe. I happen to live in one.
I do not own a gun. I do not as yet feel the need to own a gun.
That said, I have lived in Baltimore, and been to Detroit, and been to some of the neighborhoods in London where the worst of, well, several outbreaks of rioting have occurred.
So I understand why people here on PJMedia feel the need to own guns.
But I pray for all our sakes that no one here, however little ground they may have to not trust the government, never feel that they cannot trust the police officers, the sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, and the fire fighters who have sworn to serve and protect their friends and neighbors.
Were that to happen, we’d really be in it, and deep.
So you may feel safe. How do you feel knowing that a cop, off duty, or any of the other dozens of sworn officers that Bloomberg and priors have decided can carry a firearm, from meter attendants for MTA to court officers, can go where they want, when they want, and that you have to hope that it’s not “a bad neighborhood” or too late at night? That’s why I moved to White Plains. It’s safer than the city and I have full citizenship rights, for now. So do my wife and daughter. We all have carry permits. We can go where we want, when we want.
“They are with rare exceptions professionals who do their very best with the resources at their disposal”
Uh, yeah, except when it comes to the effective use of a firearm…
I was a Firearms Instructor for over 30 years…in “Instructor Development” courses I was part of, you take the TOP INSTRUCTORS of different departments /agencies and train them together to learn new methods of instruction for them to bring “back home” to supplement their own Firearms Training Programs.
I worked with “Noo Yawks” finest on numerous occasions.
They are notoriously bad shooters, and the reputation is well earned.
Combine an affirmative action/political hiring system, with “big nanny state” mentality, and (of course) your typical Noo Yawk “I already know everything” level of arrogance, and you have this “perfect storm” of negative factors that lead their trainees to engage in 50-75 shot debacles at “unarmed” suspects (hitting them 2-3 times, for a 90+% MISS RATIO?) or striking 9 bystanders while trying to take out ONE guy with a gun.
If its any large Blue Coast City from Baltimore to Boston, I count on their “training instructors” having just plain BAD gun handling skills, with “Noo Yawk” generally the worst of the group, and (amazingly!) the SELF PERCEPTION that they are the BEST.
Never had a problem with anyone from Texas though.
Go Figure.
… or lack thereof, one of the resources at their disposal?
Considering how many rounds were fired, and how many rounds hit Amadou Diallo, I am in agreement with you about how poorly trained those officers were in the use of their firearms.
And yet, this poorly trained police force has surprisingly few incidences like what happened that day.
I don’t trust the mayor. I don’t trust the city council. But I do trust the men and women who serve in the New York City Police Department.
Do you trust the President? Do you trust the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Do you think that the men and women who serve in the armed forces are as well trained as they could be in the safe and responsible use of their firearms? I know a few NRA members who do not.
Do you distrust the men and women who serve in America’s armed forces?
When we cannot trust our government, that is commonplace. When we cannot trust the soldiers and police officers who have sworn to protect us, we are in real trouble.
My father, an attorney, once told me, “Never trust a cop.” In my experience he was right. Trust a cop at your own risk. Assume they are only looking out for themselves or each other. I’m sure there are a few good ones out there, but I find that by assuming the worst your safer.
I entrust my soul to God, and my life to John Moses Browning!
There was one major thing that was ignored in this article.
This nation’s government is the US Constitution. Those that serve in the three branches are assigned specific duties to carry out. They are NOT allowed to take on duties that were not assigned to each specific branch. They take legally binding Oaths of Office that they are required to keep to:
1) meet the minimum qualifications of the office or position they are occupying. 2) not commit a political offense of which impeachment is the penalty.
3) not commit a criminal offense of which arrest and prosecution is the penalty. 4) not commit a civil offense of which arrest and prosecution is the penalty.
Just because Obama pardoned Bush does not mean that he still cannot be arrested and prosecuted for treason – he can and needs to be. Treason is unpardonable. Of course Bush was pardoned of war crimes, murder, mass murder, and various other criminal and civil offenses including breaking his oath of office. But Bush’s adminstration was NOT pardoned and they can still be held accountable.
Obama has not been pardoned as there is not president to pardon him. Romney would have pardoned him, just like Obama pardoned Bush. Obama has committed treason, murder, mass murder, war crimes, and various other criminal and civil offenses including breaking his oath of office. His adminstration is guilty of treason. Some of them are also guilty of all of the offenses Obama is. Other’s of a smaller list – but ALL are guilty of treason. (I have listed the specific crimes and the laws that apply in other posts)
Obama gave himself “assassination powers” which is not lawful here in the USA. Basically he told everyone, and a group he selcted, that he is committing preplanned murder every week. That is against OUR laws here in the USA. It is Murder with a fancier name, but still “murder”.
That is why Americans armed themsleves. Unarmed citizens of any country are victims. Go watch “Innocent’s Betrayed” about gun control.
The author didn’t mention Congress exempting themselves from laws they pass the “common people” (you and I) must obey. They exempted themselves from the Social Security System even though most have worked in the private sector at some point and will therefore collect benefits. They also exempted themselves from the awful Obamacare law that destroys health care for most Americans. If anything violates public trust, its the afore mentioned.
Americans just might be catching wise that the government our Founders establed to serve us “With the consent of the governed” (Declaration of Independence) has become our master…we now serve it.
Oh, and Leftist politicians appointing Leftist judges who take God out of our culture also diminish our respect for government…and ourselves for letting them do it.
The issue of trust is an important one and I have been thinking lately about “trust” after hearing a Viet Nam era protest song, Sunshine. In it, the lyrics say “he can’t even run his own life, I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine”.
I got to thinking that we have allowed 535 legislators in Washington D.C, countless functionaries in Executive departments and millions of politicians at the state and local level to “run our lives”. We have relinquished our liberty and freedom a little at a time over the years when governments at all levels grew bigger, more powerful and more intrusive, writing and enforcing countless rules and regulations some rational, some totally irrational. I can think of no polititian or functionary, of the many I have known and known of, that I would want or trust to “run my life” but the truth is that there are countless of these people doing exactly that.
America became good and great because of the pioneering spirit and can-do way of thinking. Today, the pioneering spirit, resulting in someone’s success and wealth, is a bad thing and must be punished. The Feds foster an attitude that suggests that all citizens must be indebted to the Feds in one way or another and self reliance and a can-do spirit is a threat to society [see: gun contol].
When are we going to awaken and see our liberty and freedom slipping away and the chances of ever recovering them diminishing with each passing year. Is it too late or do we still have time. Time is of no consequence unless we have the backbone to change things. We need to act to recover our liberty and freedom at all levels and find a way to never get into a position where liberty and freedom is no longer cherished.
It’s simpler than the author makes it out to be. Just look at the experience of a single lifetime.
The Bronx was a lovely place when my mother grew up there. As a 12 year old she could freely travel on the subway to a museum in Manhattan without worry. This, despite significant amounts of racism, poverty and economic inequality in America.
Students who became infatuated with Marxism during the depths of the Great Depression finally in the 1960s reached positions of power and influence. They decided that robbers were _not_ enemies of society after all — they decided that when such crimes were committed it was _society_ that was at fault. (More extreme radicals went so far as to declare that black criminals were “the vanguard of the Revolution.”) Beginning during the economic boom of the 1960s this new Establishment allowed a crime wave to develop and grow.
When citizens complained they were told, “Police cannot do much about street crime until society deals with the root causes — racism, poverty and economic inequality.” (This, even though crime really began to explode upon the passage of the Civil Rights act and LBJ’s “Great Society” programs.)
The government betrayed our trust and made clear that it is no longer on our side. To earn that trust back the government would have to reduce inner-city crime rates back down to what they were (per 10,000 people) in the 1940s and ’50s — and keep them there for as many decades as they had been allowed to exceed those rates. Until then, we shall need firearms to defend ourselves (the police being unable to do much, blah blah blah).
If permanent social changes make a return to 1950′s era crime rates unfeasible, then this return to Wild West conditions is all the more reason for us to arm ourselves. (The West was not wild because people had guns; rather, people’s guns are what allowed them to deal with the wildness — and eventually to _tame_ the West.)
Ultimately, the Great Society programs ended up subsidizing racism, poverty, and economic inequality. That is, they made it easier for people suffering under those societal ills to survive. We can say, with some pride, that our poor are no longer starving. I am not sure we can say it’s easier for them to escape from poverty.
I don’t trust the government. At all. And, as long as they have guns…I’m going to have guns.
Liberals: Deal with it.
That ‘conservative’ hold up in a preppers cave with the little kid in AL didn’t trust the government either. Those closest to him said he listened to a lot of conservative talk radio so no doubt he was well informed of the tyrannical government, etc., etc. Sounds like the conservatives are down one warrior as the news tonight said he’s now deceased.
What I find super distrubing is the fact we are finding ourselves having to defend gun ownership. What the heck has been done to common sense? Rational thinking? No wonder we are losing freedoms left and right. The brain has been stirred up like scrambled eggs.
I was so upset with the insane ranting of Chelease, the most popular Black name in 2012, that I investigated her. She has a page on facebook, complete with with grandkids and a picture of her (it’s a him) shopping in Manhattan. She’s been a professional writer for 28 years. A Dan Draper type if you will.
She (he) has a wife, grown kids and three adorable grandkids.
I was ready to peg her as a genuine cook sociopath.
But it was satire. As they say, dripping with it. Wetter than a sponge sitting on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
English Warning To Americans: DONT GIVE UP YOUR GUNS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPy_ogsFqmc
If this does not let you know about who is running the gangster capital in Chicago, nothing ever will!
Chicago sacrificing pension funds to push gun control February 4, 2013
http://washingtonexaminer.com/chicago-sacrificing-pension-funds-to-push-gun-control/article/2520523
let’s see, what kind of gun does our usurper want us to give up the most? why, that would be the single shot semi-auto ar15 type. a long rifle seldom used in any crimes. according to the coroner’s report recently released on sandy hook, it wasn’t used there either, even though you won’t hear the lame arsed media say so. it isn’t used daily in chicago to kill, kill, kill. it isn’t used as the weapon of choice in the violent killings associated with our war on drugs. so what gives?
let me refresh, where do i remember this weapon being widely distributed to murderers? oh yes, i remember now. it was our choom choom kenyan and his enforcer holder selling these guns using u.s. gun shops along the border. they ordered the legal gun dealers along the border to forget the i.d. checks, stand down, ignore u.s. laws and sell thousands of these guns to known drug dealing murderers. to come into the u.s. and make these kinds of mega-gun deals in legal gun shops is amazing. i guess the drug dealing murderers trust our government more than we do. heck, i get nervous just jay walking in an abandoned section of town, but buying thousands of ar15 type guns in such a manner, its off the hook.
so, to recap, we have our most famous kenyan and his minion holder trying to get ar15 type weapons into the hands of murderous drug dealers who don’t typically like the single shot version of this gun. they can buy uzi’s and such for their killing much easier, i’m sure. so why go to all this trouble?
1. maybe it was just to try to spend some of that shovel-ready stimulus $$$? that’s where the $$ came from after all.
2. perhaps he was just trying to see if he could help our American weapons makers by handing out some samples?
3. perhaps he was trying to create a sandy hook incident along the border to bolster he and hitlery’s false claims that over 90% of the murders along the border were being committed by u.s. weapons walking across the border; and, thereby giving cause to try to seize these type weapons.
well, if you believe #3, he did create a killing zone w/ these weapons. we don’t know how many innocent mexican women and children were killed by his gun-running efforts. after the administration was positively linked to these killing, they strangely stopped happening, for the most part. this handily kept the hundreds of dead from becoming thousands.
isn’t it coincidental that these type weapons are the ones most likely to be used by patriots to defend our country against tryants or invaders? isn’t it strange that of all the weapons used in this country for illegal killing, this type long gun is almost never used. isn’t it wierd that this is the gun most singled out by this gun-running administration for gun control/seizure? isn’t it also a coincidence that these two killing zones, the border and sandy hook, both were singled out (wrongly in sandy hook) by mr. transparency?
to wrap it up, let’s remember, mr. skeet shooter in the w.h. finally had to claim executive privilege to keep rep. issa out of the files they refused to turn over to investigators on all these border killings. American border agent Bryan Terry was also murdered by one of these guns. if you or i had sold these guns and people had died, we wouldn’t be vacationing at $20 mil a pop on the taxpayer’s dime, all the while dictating what we will and will not do.
i see criminals. if you see something different, maybe its just all the handouts and free stuff in your eyes.
What if Marie Colvin had been armed?
What if that bus driver had sought help for his mental illness?
Abductions are real, by the way, but they aren’t done by white, yellow, or black people… The FBI should investigate that rather than staging their own job security.
Why are we fascinated by guns? Simple. Because we like things that go BANG!
So, You Might Want to Topple the U.S. Government?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Fm03LhWvU
This is just an intellectual exercise!
NEVER trust anyone who wouldn’t trust you with a gun.
Good answer. Reagan and the Bushes trusted me with guns. Obama does not. Clinton didn’t either. Or LBJ for that matter. Rather answers the “question” here…
They’re not after your guns or your sodas.
They’re after YOU.
California faces backlog of 40,000 weapons in hands of felons, mentally ill By Barnini Chakraborty February 05, 2013
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/05/california-faces-backlog-40000-weapons-in-hands-felons-mentally-ill/?test=latestnews
I just saw a video still from the Marines at Eight and I pulling honor guards for the inauguration and none of these Marines in full dress blues had bolts in their M-1 Rifles.
POTUS Obama fears his Marines when they are armed even during an inauguration.
It’s not just civilians these folks fear being armed it’s also a fear of their own Marines.
The administration fears American’s civilian and military.
My question is Why? What guilty feelings brings such fear of their own people, what are these people planning for us?
A very accurate assessment at hand!
Dec 30, 2009
Switzerland has the lowest crime rate in the world,because the people are armed,basic military is mandatory for men,and after wards they are required to keep their weapon at home.A crook will think twice about breaking into houses knowing this,people who think the world should get rid of guns should think again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ufkwTM82e4