An Urgent Appeal

Jim Simpson needs our help. [More]

If you can't help financially, you can help by letting others know.

I know exactly where he is coming from.

People labor daily and yet there is no "demand" in "legitimate media" for anything that doesn't fit the narrative.  Nor are there any Bloombergs or foundations stepping in to save the day.

Add a dose of "Profiles in Apathy," and I can't tell you how many projects I've seen fold over the years, and how many good people I've seen bear a burden until it just becomes too much, so they put it down and we all lose, especially those who have no clue as to what they just allowed to die from neglect.

How many people have helped out the Reese family? Or promoted "Assaulted" or "Infringed"? Or sent a voluntary subscription stipend over Sipsey Street way? Or even lifted a finger to share a link?

I know the happy few who do help can't do it all.  But most do nothing, aside from leaving a comment expressing their opinion, and considering that their contribution to the cause.

If we end up losing this, our enemies won't be the only ones responsible.

Fuggedaboutit

Anyone caught engaging in violence against a government official is kidding himself if he believes his actions will inspire the anti-government crowd to bear arms and take to the streets. The British didn’t have tanks, planes, rocket launchers, drones and poisonous gas when the colonists rebelled. The power elite that now rules America has all of these weapons – and more – at its disposal. [More]

Note he doesn't tell us how those would be used without collateral damage to vast portions of the general population.

I think what he's saying is he personally has no line in the sand.

With the Profiles in Apathy I see all around, leading to attempt after attempt failing due to Molon Labia gun owners not even lifting a finger when a righteous plea for easy help is made, I wonder increasingly how many do.

We Have Met the Enemy...

In fact, the bill enhances A.T.F. enforcement and oversight powers...[More]

But dealers can get graduated penalties and "willfulness" can factor in, so the trade-off is deemed worth it.

By some.

Others of us have a different idea. Unfortunately, this "compromise" reflects the reality that not enough have the same idea and care enough to do a damn thing about it.

"Profiles in Apathy."

Right, Pogo? 

[Via Peter K]

Profiles in Apathy

As a Weld County resident myself, I know the majority of citizens here are apolitical. [More]

What was Pericles supposed to have said...?

And people wonder how they end up in boxcars...

[Via Michael G]

The Devil You Know

NEW YORK STATE REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN ED COX MUST RESIGN! [More]

Yeah, the guy's no doubt a glad-handing tool, but he can only work with what he's got. It doesn't matter who they put in the hot seat unless a critical mass of dedicated gun owners decide to roll up their sleeves, get involved and do the necessary and tedious work.

"Profiles in apathy" are our greatest enemies.

But hey, Molon Labe!

[Via Felix B]

Thanks to You It Works

The introduced bill was an improvement over the initial proposal that was revealed to the media over a month ago, but it was still unacceptable and we opposed it. However, because your activism generated almost 37,000 emails to the Legislature, an 82 page strike-everything amendment, that completely replaced the original bill and corrected most of the issues, was offered and adopted at the committee hearing. [More]

Seeing what participation can yield, it's a reason I get disgusted with do-nothing profiles-in-apathy bloviators.

So why isn't the number 370,000 or more?

CDT notes via email:

This is how a gun-rights organization SHOULD work.  No namby-pamby, no compromise, no surrender.

AzCDL worked like hell, orchestrated *37,000* emails to legislators and the governor in the space of three weeks, and managed to get an absolute stinker of a bill de-fanged to the point where they could say they were now NEUTRAL on it.

I certainly can't remember the last time the NRA was anywhere NEAR that effective.

Oh yeah, I should add that they also managed to block any interference from NRA carpetbaggers flying into the state to compromise our rights away FOR us.  That's double-plus good.

You Will Be Assimilated

A full gun ban in the United States is inevitable.  [More]

He raises some incontestible points. But he seems to be ignoring one potential.

Maybe with the profiles in apathy I see daily, resignation and defeatism are the most pragmatic courses to take?

[Via Keith B]

Will gun owner apathy enable ATF’s ‘emergency’ long gun registration scheme?

“Profiles in apathy.” You know, inaction by gun owners that enables “gun control," derails valiant efforts and disheartens those who continually find themselves carrying an inordinate share of the burden? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner commentary presents the simplest of tasks, and notes how even this is too much for too many.

The Disengaged

"Profiles in Apathy" and citizenship malpractice... [More]

Ah well. Someone's gotta be cannibal food.

[Via Mack H]

Profiles in Apathy

Five kids. Two working parents. They’re personal trainers at a gym off Warwick Boulevard. [More]

Well that's gotta trump this.

More than half didn't bother.

What are excuses like again?

[Via Mack H]

Profiles in Apathy Redux

It's been up three weeks, has less than two to go and is only a quarter way to 80K? [More]

So much for "our" strength being grassroots vs. Astroturf.

Moldy labia!

Profiles in Apathy

‘Veto Gunmageddon’ petitions fail to gather enough signatures [More]

Sadly, I can't say I'm surprised.

Yeah, Well, What Did We Expect?

Griping with little concrete action will always produce results like this. [More]

Profiles in Apathy win again. Excuse me for questioning the likelihood of those who won't do easy things actually making real and sustained sacrifices, and enduring terrible hardships and losses.

Profiles in Apathy

Why keep banging your head against the wall if nobody cares? [More]

I can't tell you how many unique and innovative efforts I've seen fold over the decades because of it.

Arrest of Terry murder suspect raises weapon questions and more

Those who complain about the lack of any real punitive outcomes must realize that there is only one way to alter this reality. That is if they become force multipliers, and share information that will otherwise remain confined to limited niche readerships. That means they must also actively demand action from their representatives with “or else” consequences, and recruit others to do the same. Absent a commitment to do that, and if the “profiles in apathy” inertia prevails, expecting anything to change is unrealistic. [More]

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes a new “Gunwalker” development that reminds us how much the media is not reporting—and what you need to do about it if you expect that to change.

May Your Chains Set Lightly

Profiles in apathy... [More]

[Via Florida Guy]

Profiles in Apathy

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Media ‘gun control’ proponents argue there's no longer any need to fear NRA

“Profiles in apathy” has long been a theme expressed here, and should rightfully be considered as great an enemy of freedom as the most rabid of gun-grabbers. That gun owners must organize and pool their strength together is a given, and that so many ignore the call to muster and instead draw their curtains while others march to the green does more to give aid and comfort to their attackers than anything. [More] 

Today's Gun Rights Examiner commentary notes a perception of vulnerability that's not altogether misplaced.