These days I confess I kinda get a kick out of the insults gun-grabbers throw. I’m sure I’m paraphrasing somebody when I say I count it an honor to be despised by the despicable. When people I don’t even know publicly wish death on me, though I have never done them harm, I just figure I must be doing something right.
It’s convoluted, but the logic sort of works. I don’t know why we threaten gun-grabbers so. It is a puzzlement. But it’s perfectly clear how they threaten us. In the past few months I’ve concluded that I was wrong to disparage the term ‘gun culture.’ We are in a war of cultures, whether we choose to engage in it or not, and the other side in that war has chosen guns as the means by which it dehumanizes its enemy. So be it.
Oh, I still maintain that the culture war is not really about guns. But the gun-grabbers are right about one thing: guns are the perfect symbol for what it is really about, which is individual self-reliance.
For some reason – and I would give a great deal to fully understand this – there are people who find other peoples’ self-reliance very threatening. They fixate on the guns but they’re just as quick to demonize any of the other characteristic practices of “the hoarders, the survivalists, the paranoid, the criminal and downright politically nutty.”
It’s one thing to be dismissive or insulting toward people whose activities you just find silly. I’m guilty of that. It’s another thing entirely to wish those people dead. That is a clear sign that you somehow find them a threat. So when people whom I despise – but have never harmed – are so threatened by the mere existence of my culture that they’re prepared to declare literal war on it, I just figure I’m having a salubrious effect on them and hope to continue doing so.
But I can certainly understand if some fellow members of the gun culture find the whole thing distressing and discouraging. To those people, I recommend a dose of Claire’s latest at JPFO.
If they had their way, anti-gunners would have us surrender our principles, our independent thinking, our readiness to defend life, our courage, our integrity, our intellectual honesty, our ability to act decisively. They would have us become lesser human beings.
And they’d think that was a good thing.
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Whatever happens, we must never — even when things look bad, even when the news depresses or infuriates us, when new laws loom on the horizon, when new threats to our freedom and well-being emerge, and when the cruel words continue to sting — lose sight of the fact that we are what we are because we fulfill a prime duty to ourselves.
That’s all I wanted to say. 🙂
There is really only one good and understandable reason to register then confiscate our guns. It is the same reason that Russia did it and Hitler did it. Our government can very slowly take away our rights and tax us all into poverty while opening the borders to all kinds of people. Hell, they are doing that right now. Some of us might object, a few politicians will lose office and be forced to accept consulting positions paying ten times as much but mostly we sit like the frog in the water slowly coming to a boil. What they cannot do to an armed citizenry is to quickly turn the country into a despotic dictatorship. To do that requires that they take our guns first. Simple as that.
I understand why a government would consider a disarmed citizenry a good thing. That’s pretty simple logic to follow.
What I have a hard time wrapping my mind around is why so many Americans who aren’t in government – many of whom aren’t even paid by government – so passionately buy the same bullshit when it can’t possibly bring them benefit.
I doubt if there’s any great conspiracy. More likely these politicians and their fellow travelers and city dwellers have nothing in common with us. To them guns are just a threat, not something they grew up with, respected and used. They have people who handle their security or if they,re commoners, luck and are disgusted with the thought of killing their own food. A gun is dangerous and the blacker it is, Glocks and AR’s come to mind, the worse it is.
I’ve got to admit, nowadays any gun selling for under a grand is butt ugly. Works real well but ugly. Kind of like an XKE and modern shitboxes (saw a Lincoln hatchback yesterday that had to be the ugliest care I’ve ever seen). When did fine walnut and blued steel on guns go out of fashion?
Hell, even modern sailboats are hard on the eyes. Go fast though. Must be getting old and crotchety. I just hate about 90% of the modern world.
They buy the bullshit because the idiot box sells it. Fools. Brainwashed by a machine. Sad.
The nauseating automatons who lap up the MSM spiel against guns are the same ones who max out their credit cards on the latest electronic gadget, the same ones who eat shit swill from fa(s)t food restaurants, the same ones who take bottles of pills for whatever ailment their TV tells them they might have.
Every so often I catch a ‘news’ story on the idiot box. It’s beyond insanity. These automatons have their own language (gun culture, war on women, N-word). At least they are easy to spot and avoid.
I’ve stopped debating them. My only response is: “I don’t care what you have to say.”
Expat, you nailed it. Citiots are a subclass of TVidiots who dominate the political class on the federal level. Gun crime is a problem in the rotting cities which they control. So…naturally, everyone gets to suffer for it because they are sooo much smarter than us and have the answer to everything. Generally, their answer to their rules not working is make more of the same rules.
They need to be ignored. They wouldn’t last five days if the power ran out the precious machines which allow them to communicate, conduct commerce, and receive their ideas quit working. Liberal laws need not apply outside their beltways.
They’re products of socialized education, and that *does* teach government priorities.
Which is why our populace is becoming more ignorant all the time.