A Wake-Up Call

Alfaross - Why does anyone need a gun? Get them out of every society. Anybody who thinks that you need a gun for protection should wake up to themselves and look at how many people are killed by guns. There is something seriously wrong with humanity.

This was posted under today's GRE column.

No education or outreach necessary in this case: Feel free to kick his ass.

Dear Pen Pal: Letters to Vernon

or

How I Gained and Lost a Correspondent

Regular readers know I talked last week about a hoplophobe projectionist from Indiana, State Rep. Vernon G. Smith.

You also know I let him know what I thought about him.

Well, he responded:
I didn't cut his email off--that's how he ended it. Anyway, seeing I had his attention, I thought I'd at least put him in a position where he can't say he doesn't know about the racist implications of U.S. "gun control," borrowing heavily from a prior similar effort.

So here's what I wrote back:

From: David Codrea
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 3:03 PM
To: Vernon Smith
Subject: RE: You

I am kind with those who deserve it. I'm also an American who is sick and tired of petty tyrants messing with my rights and I'm not going to be polite about it with oppressors.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Did your oath to the Constitution mean nothing?

We both know that you are not interested in getting rid of all guns. You simply want to be on the side that is armed. And let the ultimate impact on your constituents' unalienable rights be damned.

I wonder what these constituents would say if they were provided the truth about the racist origins and continued discriminatory application of the gun control measures you promulgate? Have you told them about the Slave Codes, that would allow a black man to be whipped (or worse) for possession of any kind of weapon? Or the post-Civil War Black Codes, designed to keep the newly emancipated from obtaining the means of defense during the heyday of Klan terror?

Why don't you circulate the following Louisiana statute among a few of the churches that you get your precinct walkers from, and see what they have to say?

"No negro who is not in the military service shall be allowed to carry fire-arms, or any kind of weapons, within the parish, without the special written permission of his employers, approved and endorsed by the nearest and most convenient chief of patrol."

If that doesn't make an impression, why not try the following offering from Mississippi?

"No freedman, free Negro, or mulatto not in the military service of the United States government, and not licensed so to do by the board of police of his or her county, shall keep or carry firearms of any kind..."

Oh, hell, let's cut to the chase and clue them in to Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857):

"Protection of the ‘absolute rights of individuals' to personal security, liberty, and private property is secured in part by ‘the right of bearing arms'--which with us is...practically enjoyed by every citizen, and is among his most valuable privileges, since it furnishes the means of resisting as a freeman ought, the inroads of usurpation."

Tell them how racist Supreme Court Chief Justice Taney concluded that blacks, as legal scholar and civil rights attorney Professor Don B. Kates has recorded, "could not be ‘citizens,' because if they were, they would have the right to vote, to assemble, to speak on political subjects, to travel freely, and ‘to keep and carry arms wherever they went.'"

Now tell them how the government has neither the legal obligation nor the capability to protect them, and how your police will not arrive in most life-and-death situations in time to do anything but tape off the crime scene, cover the body and take a report. Then make sure you tell them that you don't credit them with having the judgment or maturity to be entrusted with the means of personal defense, in spite of landmark peer-reviewed studies from Florida State University and the University of Chicago that conclusively demonstrate the crime-deterring, life- saving value of guns in private, law-abiding hands.

I suspect you won't tell them any of this. And, because of the unique privileges and stature that you enjoy in your position, this is especially contemptible.

To have risen to such a prestigious and powerful position speaks of many positive and remarkable characteristics that you must be blessed with. But a true leader would use his authority to preserve, protect and champion the freedoms of those he serves. How sad, how telling, and how ultimately treasonous that you have chosen to misapply yours for your own gain.

And rather than being a leader in liberty, you have opted to become just another one of the plantation's overseers.

Foolish man.

David Codrea
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The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance
Gun Rights Examiner
Guns Magazine "Rights Watch"
CUM ULLA SELLA IN PUGNO TABERNA

And he responded:
Talk about a substantive rebuttal.

So I gave it the consideration and deliberation his thoughtful response merited:
Prompting another brilliant parry:
And that is the sound of a mind, such as it is, slamming shut.

That doesn't surprise me--after all, we're dealing with a politician who is both a "progressive" and an academic.

And while you'll never see this, Vernon (yeah, right), you should know I agree with your conclusion--just not with your rationale for it.

I have no reason for sharing this with WOG readers other than to let you know it is possible to get these creatures' attention and then to get under their skin. Since they're the ones initiating attacks on our rights, just knowing that can make the effort worthwhile.

And thus ends a beautiful friendship, before it ever had the chance to flower.

Too bad. But I do hope Vernon finds another pen pal.

Meanwhile, Over in Sarah Brady Nirvana...

In the land of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian gun owners are coming out of the shadows for the first time to mobilize, U.S.-style, against proposed new curbs on bearing arms. [More]

Because we've seen how well the alternative works.

[Via retrotruckman]

Who Will Be Roadkill?

Vanderboegh envisions a not unrealistic scenario. [Read]

Be a shame if that happens and some of us realize we might have made a minimal effort that could have helped shine enough light to prevent it--but didn't.

Understanding the Battlefield

And who the enemy is...

Tom Baugh explains.

I think I've mentioned this before: He sent me "Starving the Monkeys" to review. I'm getting closer. I just finished reading Dave Kopel's latest (review forthcoming) and I'm in the middle of a Neal Knox compilation, again for the purpose of review.

One of my regrets is that extra reading time beyond what I do to produce this journal and Gun Rights Examiner every day is so limited.

"I Like Guns" Revisited

From Steve Lee in an email to correspondent Redleg:

Hey Redleg

Had a bit of a look at the sites you sent me. I am a little disapointed at the comments as there not true at all. I dont believe in gun control at all. There are a few differences between the U.S. and oz like we dont have the second amendment so we dont have a legal right to bear arms as you lucky buggers do. Our government tells us its a privilage for us to have guns and by the way our law has been written, we dont have much of a say.

Just to clear up my comments on the television show ACA, I did say that the government done the right thing in bringing in laws to stop people like Martin Bryant getting there hands on firearms because he was mentally insaine, and killed 33 people. the conversation on the show stopped there but it didnt stop in reallity. I went on to say that responsible gun owners should be allowed to own anything they like as they are not the problem.

Unfortunitly for Australians, we dont have the same system as you guys, ours come from England and we dont have the same legal rights as you do, we just have to do the best with what we have.

Im sorry if there has been a misunderstanding but i am completely for the right to bear arms, sadly it makes no difference for us Aussies cause we dont have the second amendment.

Please let any one that is angry at me no the truth

Kind Regards

Steve Lee

VPC: Reduce Blackcess to Firearms

The Violence Policy Center (VPC) — the anti-gun rights group that Barack Obama repeatedly voted to fund while he was a director of the Joyce Foundation — believes that African-Americans are too violent to deserve the entire Constitution. Thus, it wants to reduce their access to firearms. [More]

Here's another look at a story Kurt Hofmann covered last week.

If you haven't seen this yet, and shared it with your friends, why not?

[Via Texas Shooter]

Chip Off the Old Blockhead

Any new public policy measure undertaken to reduce, regulate or limit access to the guns and ammunition that have contributed to the loss of human life across the nation's urban landscape is a step in the right direction. [More]

I don't know what's more unsettling--to consider that readers are being manipulated by a subversive control freak who knows damn well he's setting up a fraud, or to wonder if Chip Johnson here is actually ignorant enough to believe his own line of crap.

Rethinking Her Approach

Howard is quoted as saying she opposed efforts to change to an ordinance prohibiting guns in public parks to comply with a state law passed in 2007 and upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court in 2008, calling the idea that anyone would want to carry a concealed firearm in a public park "ridiculous."

...Howard admits she didn't understand Ohio's concealed carry law when she made the comments...[More]

So she wanted to impose her ignorance and prejudice on others under force of law. What other words besides "malpractice" would you use to describe that?

Does anyone really think this "Republican" is "rethinking her stance" based on principle, as opposed to calculating political costs after party leaders pulled her aside and told her she needed to tone things down for the present? And notice she really didn't promise anything?

Yeah, let's keep acting like we can play these creatures to our advantage. That way, we can act shocked...shocked when they pull a Gillibrand on us.

We're the Only Ones Cutting Edge Enough

"People can walk around Spadina (Crescent) carrying a machete and an officer can't do anything about it unless someone walks up and threatens someone," said Weighill. [More]

Gee, what a novel concept.

And how would they go about disarming someone with a blade?

Oh, that's right, it's Saskatoon. Weighill & Co. are "Only Ones," eh?

Teaching Moments from the University of Kentucky

A University of Kentucky graduate student has sued the university and others, claiming he was wrongfully fired from his job at the UK Chandler Medical Center because he had a handgun in his car. [More]

Not that there should be any damn rules forcing one to be circumspect in the first place, but realizing that there are, what did we learn from this?

There's no shortage of snitches. When disregarding "rules," keep your mouth shut unless your intent is to make a civil disobedience statement.

When someone wants to search you or your property, insist on a warrant. And if you're not being detained, remove any incriminating evidence.

Cuba's Forced 'Amnesty' Demonstrates Tyrannical Intent of 'Gun Control'

"Armas para que?" [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes a question that's being asked again.

Also see a friend begin a new venture and get the latest from my fellow GREs.

Tell a friend?

This Day in History: February 2

The recent detection of the wicked design you mention gives me the most sensible pleasure; and I earnestly hope you may be alike successful in discovering and disappointing every attempt that may be projected against you, either by your open or concealed enemies. [More]