David Codrea, writer for GUNS Magazine, addressed this imbalance in his keynote speech midway through the rally. Though his visage was pale and voice weak from the ravages of a near-fatal battle with pneumonia, his message was no less impassioned. [More]
I don't recall seeing this almost three-year-old piece before. I had to look up old emails to find my correspondence with the author, noting we conducted the interview by phone and I also set him up to talk with Mike.
In re the pneumonia thing, I
downplayed it at the time, but yeah, I shut down and collapsed, my face evidently ping-ponging on the way down between the sink counter, the toilet and the floor. I looked like I'd been worked over by the pros, but don't remember a thing. Elder feral son Uday heard the crash, attended me and dialed 911, and I rebooted in the ambulance after paramedics had stabilized me.
The speech he mentions
is here if you haven't seen it and care to.
