Once again, the second amendment is under siege.
Before going further, Michelle Malkin has a brilliant article about the subject.
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/06/26/the-msms-war-on-gun-owners/
What makes the gun control issue rear its head this week is less an issue of the second amendment than the civil rights struggle. However, in this case the new civil rights struggle is the struggle of Jesse Jackson to remain relevant by taking away gun owners rights, and doing so in a most uncivil manner.
If memory serves, slavery did not end because of people singing Kumbaya. It ended because people with guns in the north fought better than the slave loving southern gun owners. Justified gun violence freed the slaves. Then again, the way Jesse Jackson preaches, I wonder if he knows that slavery ended back in 1863.
Anyway, in a desperate attempt to keep hope alive for his flagging television existence, he has decided to declare August 25th a day to protest gun violence.
I meant to offer a one line commentary to Ms. Malkin, but with machine gun rapidity I offered the following:
“If I was a criminal, I would advise my fellow criminals to go on a mass robbery spree on August 25th. How will the victims fight back? Will they have plastic sporks on them from their vegetarian brown bag lunches?
Besides, once many of these liberals get mugged, as the cliche goes, they will become conservatives.
Then again, like most left wing protests, nobody of consequence will show up, and nobody of consequence will report it as a success. It will be treated as a peace rally, until some of the protesters start fighting with each other over who has the most environmentally friendly sign.
The police will then tear gas the rioters to separate them from themselves, and it will be a protest about police brutality.
Diane Feinstein and Chuck Shumer will then try to ban tear gas and rubber bullets.
I wish we could transfer the bulls from Pamplona to the streets of America. Then the protesters would get what every left wing protester gets when they believe utter nonsense…they would get ‘Gored.’”
This leads to two very complex issues.
1) Am I committing copyright infringement by taking words off of Ms. Malkin’s webpage without crediting her, given that I wrote those words to begin with? Also, would it not be better if I tried to impress her with intelligence rather than nonsense? No, and yes.
2) What part of individual rights does the party of slavery who support an evolving constitution not grasp?
For those who say that the second amendment is a collective right, this defies logic. That would mean that amendments one, and three through ten, somehow relate to the individual, but amendment two refers to the collective.
Conservatives who interpret the Constitution are represented by John Roberts. Liberals have ACLU freedom squelcher Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The originalist versus the activist. I think I will stick with the conservatives when it comes to interpreting the Constitution.
It clearly states in the Federalist Papers that the purpose of guns was not to just protect the government, but to protect the people from their government. A militia is a group of private individuals, aka the people. The people are a group of…you guessed it…individuals.
Even liberals who disregard and distort the Constitution (Redundant, I know, but in fairness, everybody need a hobby) cannot disregard the fact that areas with the strictest gun control laws have the highest crime rates, and areas with the loosest gun laws have the lowest crime rates. All sorts of excuses are made for this.
What amazes me is that I have never considered myself a hero of the civil rights movement, given that I was not born at that time. However, if doing nothing is better than making things worse, most people including myself do more to help Black America than Jesse Jackson. Black on black crime is leading to many deaths, and Mr. Jackson does not want to help save their lives by allowing them to protect themselves. Does he expect gangsters and drug dealers to just go to Church and renounce violence?
Sorry, Rev, but “Up with hope, down with dope,” is as forgotten about in history as you are. It is in the time capsule with the pet rocks and lava lamps. What saves communities is law and order. Since you obviously do not like the police (which is understandable given that they keep making America safer by arresting you), allowing only the police to have guns would not benefit a black community (or any community for that matter).
So if trusting the police is not the answer, and allowing black Americans to continue to disproportionately die because self proclaimed black leaders need black misery to cling to power is not the answer, then the solution is to allow black America to have the equality they deserve. Blacks did not fight for the right to avoid being 3/5 of a person so that they could be killed by criminals with guns.
Rural areas with mostly white people have lower crime rates than large cities with many black people. Has it occurred to anybody that if black people had the same right to defend themselves, they would be as safe as their white counterparts? What is civil rights about, if not the right to stay alive?
The first amendment protects Jesse Jackson’s right to be an imbecile. It is almost an immigration issue, since Jesse Jackson is a benefit of a “catch and release” policy. Dr. King was willing to go to prison for his beliefs. Jesse Jackson seems to be willing to fight for his right to be on camera. Even the liberal view of the Constitution does not give him this.
Yes, gun rights advocates ( and will the media stop calling them gun enthusiasts! Guns bore me, I am not enthusiastic about them, but I support gun ownership as a right) have every right to form a counter protest. However, it might be a good idea to simply ignore Jesse Jackson, which has pretty much been the policy of normal people for a couple decades now.
His career is a photo op. The only reason people know he exists is because he hurdled past many people like a linebacker to cradle Dr. King in his arms in front of the cameras back in 1968. Many people cried about Dr. King’s death, rightfully so, but they did not use it as a stage to advance themselves.
The Constitution does not mandate photo ops for publicity hounds. This “leader” (what does he actually do anyway? has he ever “worked?”) needs to be ignored. The Constitution has survived the agitators of the 1960s. Surely it can survive the agitators who still think it is the 1960s.
Arguing with activists who jump from cause to cause is like teaching a pig to sing. As the cliche goes, it wastes time and annoys the pig.
Let the leftists talk to each other until they fall into a deep coma of boredom.
Guns don’t kill people. Larry the Cable Guy says “Husbands coming home early kill people.” I would say that liberal activists like Al Bore and Jesse Jackson boring people to death kills people.
Thank God my television has a mute button. With all due respect to the NRA, when dealing with liberals, that is what I would call a silencer.
eric
Even liberals who disregard and distort the Constitution (Redundant, I know, but in fairness, everybody need a hobby) cannot disregard the fact that areas with the strictest gun control laws have the highest crime rates, and areas with the loosest gun laws have the lowest crime rates.
Do you really think that’s the reason?
Rural areas with mostly white people have lower crime rates than large cities with many black people. Has it occurred to anybody that if black people had the same right to defend themselves, they would be as safe as their white counterparts?
You talk as though having a gun puts a magical shield around you that protects you from other people with guns. When in fact 99 percent of the time when you get shot, you don’t even see who shot you and your having a weapon certainly isn’t going to scare him. That’s how urban crime tends to happen. Adding more guns to the city will just turn more stabbings into shootings and make the crime rate go even higher.
Also, gun control advocates are not wimps. Neither are vegetarians for that matter. I literally thought I was reading an Ann Coulter quote at first because she’s the only one I’ve ever known to hold such ridiculous stereotypes.
When did black people become 3/5ths a person? I got lost there.
Speaking of stereotypes, you sound like a the typical liberal, Peewee….no sense of humor.
And last I knew, Ann Coulter was raking in millions. Wish I were so ‘ridiculous’.
Peewee.
The point is that people in neighborhoods that cherish their second amendment rights for the right reasons, are the safer ones. Plain, simple, true, and can be proven.
As far as the magical sheild goes, you’re right, a gun wont do that.
But its so easy , even a caveman could figure it out. After his little cave came under attack he came to the conclusion that he needed a club.
Speaking as one married to a true gun enthusiast who carries concealed, I can tell you that the enthusiasts are NOT the ones you need to worry about. These guys know how to respect the responsibility of owning, carrying, and using a gun,and the fact that you must be the adult in the room when you are in a situation that MIGHT require the use of your gun.
Who you need to worry about are the Michael Moore’s, the Jessie Jackson’s, and the entire political class that PURELY FOR POLITICAL GAINS blithely screw with the blood bought tenets that GAVE us the freedoms that MADE this country. These guys HAVE no sense of responsibility, nor what it REALLY TOOK for them to have the freedom to shoot off their IGNORANT MOUTHS. These are the parasites that, rather than lift up and solve the plight of the supposedly downtrodden in our society, do everything they can to further their plight so they can continue to live OFF these peoples’ imagined victimization.
As one who attempts to give every viewpoint a fair hearing, I have recently come to the conclusion that there is NO REASON to pay attention to the liberal parasite political class, EXCEPT to warn America that there IS this cancer in our country, that is MALIGNANT, and is AGGRESSIVELY attacking the freedoms for which this country CAME TO BE. This kind of AGGRESSIVE IGNORANCE MUST be answered.
[My apologies, Eric. Forthwith, I will attempt to control my passion while commenting….]
“What makes the gun control issue rear its head this week is…..” In my opinion the cards that the likes of RFK Jr showed at the “Live Earth” festival. Don’t know if you heard his speech, bute he was literally roaring about Global Warming and complaining about Politicians, Hannity, Limbaugh and a host of others that don’t buy into the Global Warming orthodoxy (which is that it is manmade). What he said was
“This is treason, and we need to start treating them as traitors.”
Excuse me, Here is another anti-free speech liberal that is talking about abuse of his political oponents. Don’t they soot traitors? Sounds like code to me, this is why America need the “Right to Bear Arms,” with the likes of RFK Jr. who would trample on your liberties for holding a different political position than him. It is no longer “Mind Control” that they are trying to exert on us, but it is looking more like “Mein Kamph.” ………… steve
Pee Wee,
“You talk as though having a gun puts a magical shield around you that protects you from other people with guns. When in fact 99 percent of the time when you get shot, you don’t even see who shot you and your having a weapon certainly isn’t going to scare him. ”
You say 99% which I seriously doubt, [your statistics seem to fly in the face of the record, but who cares about facts] but any way I’d rather just take my chances than rely on your strategies, how’s that?…………steve
Sue,
The ad hominen complaints about Ann Coulter are in lieu of the left being able to show error in her facts or logic…………steve
I was using 99 percent figuratively. No one can come up with a number for that type of thing so I assumed that no one would take my number literally.
If you NRA folk talk to conservatives outside the USA, you will find that virtually none of them agree with you on the issue of gun control. Only in America do conservatives believe that guns prevent crime, and I’m sure it’s no coincidence that America has a higher murder rate than any other industralized nation in the world.
Peewees assuming again.
Peewee,
I wont assume that I got robbed at gunpoint in a hotel room in Waikiki. I had no self defense. The phone had been ripped out of the wall . And I wouldnt even stick my head out the door for six hours.
I wont assume that someone walked up behind me on Broaway in San Diego and put a barrel up against my kidney and took everything but my clothes.
And then there was the moron that ran up to me with a replica gun loade with caps and pushed it up against my stomach and fired it while screaming ” remember Jack Ruby ? “.
Gun control laws are for those that are responsable enough to own one, and protect us against those that are not.
The overwhelming majority of gun crimes are commited by punks that get their guns illegally. Very few crimes in comparisson are commited with guns by people that own them legally.
In my case, I will never be caught off gaurd again, its one the worst and scariest feelings in the world. And I cant even start to imagine how I would feel if that happened to my wife or son and they had absolutly no means of defending themselves against some punk with a gun.
I speak from real life, and not assumptions.
What did I assume that isn’t true?
I’m sorry to hear about your experiences. I would advise you not to let your personal experience influence your political views.
“I would advise you not to let your personal experience influence your political views.”
Not….let….your personal experience….?!
My political views are a direct result of my experience of life…my values! Yeesh! What!? Why…even COMPUTERS work by their own personal ‘views’….read, programming!
Maybe he is referring to your assumption that conservatives believe guns prevent crime. No. I think what conservatives object to is the idea that gun ownership equals bad…as in, crime. The idealistic premise that you can legislate morality is quaint and naive. Messing with the right to bear arms is NOT going to change criminal hearts.
Peewee,
You assumed no one would take you literally, read your own post.
You stated it as knowledge, and then used the ” I assumed ” card when you were challenged.
This is what liberals do. They fantasize and then look for clues to back up the fantasy. You wont get away with it on this blog, trust me.
{” I would adivse you not to let your personal experience influence your political views” }
That is quite possibly the dumbest &*%#$@^ ! thing I have heard since…
Once again, this kind of statement comes from those that vote on ideas and theory,
and not reality
Guns, cars, and drugs in the hands of idiots is what kills people.
Should we totally get rid of cars because of drunk and/or careless drivers?
Should we get rid of all the wonderful medicines we have because of overdoses and abuse ?
Its the people , O.K.? not the item. And we will never legislate laws that tell us what the staus quo for morals should be.
Peewee,
“If you NRA folk talk to conservatives outside the USA, you will find that virtually none of them agree with you on the issue of gun control. ”
You must be referring to the guys that don’t have the US Constitution. btw, I don’t belong to the NRA, just a citizen that knows his rights and has see the record as to what is the best for the country. You know……guns don’t commit crimes…….. …. steve
You people are arguing from pure emotion and not facts. I won’t stick around any longer as this blog is now a waste of my time.
*stabs all the gun nuts with a spork*
bye
“You people are arguing from pure emotion and not facts. I won’t stick around any longer as this blog is now a waste of my time.”
Oh….good one! Throw out the ’emotion card’ and run home to your “mommy state”. For the life of me, Peewee, I couldn’t find any objective facts in your arguments.
So what I think you are really saying is “How is it possible these idiot conservatives fail to bow to my perfect logic and make points of their own I cannot counter because they make too much sense! I’m over my head here. I think I’ll vamoose while appearing to keep my pride”
Wise choice.
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So many people around us have been educated by the intentionally disfunctional school systems, they have no way to evaluate the proper meaning of ordinary language, nevermind the Constitution. Just ask around and see how many beleive we live in a “democracy”. It is tragic and dangerous, but it is the facts we must face.
Even US v Miller has been so corrupted by revisionist historians that the plain facts in the ruling are only available to those with the willingness to dig and read the original text of the ruling. The court there held that the militia( the clause used by those who would deny gun ownership is an individual right) is composed of individual citizens, who are expected to provide their own weapons.
Keep on puting the facts out…
The Rev!
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