Akron is having a gun "buyback," at least that's what they're calling it. But how you can buy back something you never owned in the first place is the least of things that don't make sense.
Here's today's Gun Rights Examiner column, and the final one for the week.
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Greetings from Palmer, Alaska. We are almost--almost--fully back up and running after the big move.
ReplyDeleteI am fairly sure that someone else has made this observation before me, so apologies for any redundancy, but it seems so obvious that I'll be the one to bite:
The term "buyback", and certainly its underlying concept, makes perfect sense if you believe all guns belong to the state. This explains a lot.
I am still (despite it all) enough of an optimist to think that most people are not actually against us--the hardcore collectivists and their useful-idiot shills notwithstanding--but rather the very thought of true liberty simply never even crosses their minds. I've had a number of people, on being even slightly educated, come back and tell me, "you know, when you look at it that way,... [that a libertarian worldview actually does make a lot of sense]".
Yes, let's by all means "look at it that way". That way, not so very long ago, was actually the default way to look at things, before the state's jus primae noctis-style attempt to breed it out of us began.
Unfortunately, by most accounts, the effort appears to be succeeding wildly. There is no more frightening attribute to have in an enemy, than patience.*
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*This is why I think WoG is so important. It adroitly walks the line between pure gadfly and professional (certainly not Authorized) journalism, presenting a coherent, clear worldview that many people simply have never even been made aware of before. It is almost impossible to rationally dismiss David's work (and by extension, much of the greater network's as well), not that some ne'er-do-wells don't claim otherwise. (Usually, these have all the pathetic telltale trappings of a good bloody shirt waving.)
For what my opinion is worth, if there is any hope left for a nonviolent restoration of real liberty (and the jury is unfortunately out on that), it lies with consistent, patient, uncompromising documentation that there really is another way for reasonable people to look at the world, despite what we have been "taught" all our lives. WoG provides a credible locus for that. (David, thank you for your work.)
Wow, Kevin, thanks.
ReplyDeleteThere's no small shortage within the gun community who would disagree with you on that, so I appreciate when someone let's me know what I'm trying to do resonates.
Don't pay them no never mind. They don't cling bitterly to their guns, they just kinda snuggle up and pet them in a bit of a funk...
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