The Collectivists Supporting Government Violence (CSGV) accuse anyone who argues that the Second Amendment is intended to protect the people's means of resisting a tyrannical government, of being "insurrectionists" and "traitors," guilty of "treason."
Take pride in their hatred of your patriotic love of liberty, and your willingness to fight to defend it. Become a well dressed "insurrectionist."
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The far more fundamental problem is the abomination of that agency being empowered to ban or permit guns and ammunition on the basis of "sporting purposes" in the first place--an idea borrowed from a particularly distasteful source. The Founding Fathers did not devote ten percent of the Bill of Rights to the protection of the right to keep and bear sporting goods.
If killing would-be tyrants and their hired muscle is a "sport," shouldn't we CSGV-designated "insurrectionists" have some hot cheerleaders prancing around us? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Liberty exists for only as long as the citizenry has the unstoppable power to enforce its will on the government. When the people can acquire the means of enforcing that will only through the relatively small number of manufacturers and the retail chain, the government can at any time it chooses choke off that supply.
Affordable, anonymous home manufacture of firearms is the only sure means of busting the "government monopoly on force." 3-D printing cam potentially play a large part in that. CNC technology can already.
As Mike Vanderboegh asks,"How many CNC machines do you think there are in the United States today?" That's a question any aspiring tyrants in government should probably ask themselves, as well. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Mike Vanderboegh, perennial thorn in the sides of liberty-haters, observes that 3-D printing has yet to become anything approaching the most practical, effective means of arming oneself against the government's wishes. That is indisputably true, for the moment. 3-D printers' capabilities, though, will inevitably grow, while costs will inevitably fall. Meanwhile, creative innovators like those involved in the Wiki Weapon project will continue to find better ways to harness the technology that is available now.
Got monopoly (on force)? Not for long . . . [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Yep--the NRA, with Congress of Racial Equality Chairman Roy Innis on the board of directors, is "the new KKK." UCLA Constitutional law professor Adam Winkler would presumably be very surprised to hear this, having noted that although the KKK has from its loathsome inception been involved in the gun rights/"gun control" debate, it did not take the side Whitlock claims it did. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.In so passionately praising those who argue that the state must not be resisted by force of arms, because the state's "monopoly on force" (so beloved of the CSGV) includes nuclear force, CSGV is endorsing the government's nuclear deterrent--against American citizens, on American soil. Furthermore, since a deterrent that absolutely will not be used, no matter what, is obviously no deterrent at all--anyone condoning the deterrent is condoning its use, if the time is right.
The question thus becomes: under what circumstances does CSGV believe the time would be "right" for the U.S. government to unleash nuclear hell on the American people? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Mauser seems either unable or unwilling to realize that in a culture where every individual looks out for his or her rights, everyone's rights (the rights, therefore, of the entire "collective") are looked out for. Mauser goes on to lament that if the U.S. were as "mature" as the nations of Europe, "the federal government would have a much easier time curtailing the average citizen’s access to weapons."
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Suppressing the rights of individuals, in favor of "the collective," is anathema to a culture of liberty. It does, however, fit very nicely with the "progressive" agenda of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.In contrast, he mentions fear of a "black liberal president" six times in his one-page column, and simply "Black President" one time each in the title and photo caption.
One thing Hagler shows no interest in discussing is "gun control's" long, sordid and well documented history of being rooted in the motivation to keep blacks disarmed, and therefore easily oppressed--a shameful history that is far from over even today. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Yep--CSGV just admitted their sick belief that if you agree with Tench Coxe and other Founding Fathers, you are guilty of treason, and subject to execution.
How, exactly, does CSGV differ from a "hate group," and who, exactly, are the "traitors"? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Today and tomorrow, and also next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the Illinois legislature is in veto session, and could vote on Quinn's veto any time (with the Senate expected to do so first). State Senator Dave Luechtefeld (R), the sponsor of the bill, hopes to override the veto. That is not out of the realm of possibility, because it was passed with well over the three fifths majority needed for the override. On the other hand, some of those who voted for the original bill are, as mentioned, anti-gun Democrats, who will likely lack the moral courage to defy the will of the governor (the will of the people--the legislators' bosses--is, of course, of far less concern to them).
Still, Illinois residents should call their state senators as soon as possible, and urge a vote to override this blatant attack on the constitutions of both the state and the nation, and on the liberty of the citizens. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.This, remember, is the group whose executive director, Josh Horwitz, urged forcible citizen disarmament advocates to "embrace self-defenders," and thus isolate them from CSGV's main enemy: "Insurrectionists" (a term Horwitz always capitalizes). Horwitz advocates this "embrace," despite directing an organization that only changed its name from "National Coalition to Ban Handguns" (handguns being, remember, the "quintessential self-defense weapon," according to the Supreme Court), because by then they also wanted to ban so-called "assault weapons" (also very valuable for self-defense, especially when attackers are numerous, wearing body armor, etc.).
CSGV, then, is once again siding with a violent criminal, against a bona fide "self-defender," one of the people CSGV wants the forcible citizen disarmament lobby to "embrace." And they call us "traitors." [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Realistically, of course, the political will to dismantle the background check system will not exist any time in the foreseeable future. That takes us back to the other option--"fixing" NICS to make it robust enough to handle any conceivable volume of sales. That will no doubt require money--not a pleasing prospect in these times of soaring national debt and out of control government spending.
Still, what price can be put on freedom? No cost is too high to protect Americans from any further hardship in arming themselves to protect their homes, lives, families and liberty. A free people cannot afford not to keep access to the tools of life and liberty preservation (and genocide prevention) as easy as possible. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Still, though, Obama's hostility to an armed American citizenry is well documented, as is his willingness to bypass Congress when that darned Constitution and its inconvenient separation of powers get in the way.
What he needs to realize is that this move, if he makes it, would start a war. It is not a war he would win. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Milligan was of course not done yet. No condemnation of "gun nuts" could possibly be complete without describing them as white men ("Ward Cleaver"-types, in Milligan's piece), prejudiced against non-whites, women, homosexuals, etc. (What? Nothing about the inadequacy of gun rights advocates' reproductive anatomy? The space allotted for Milligan's piece must have been running low).
There may be "nuts" and bigots in the gun rights/"gun control" debate--but Milligan and her ideological allies who wish to find them would be best advised to look for them in a mirror. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.According to CSGV, advising readers to download and file any information they can find on the construction of improvised explosive weapons, in case such information is needed someday to thwart a government bent on tyranny, is "treason," (a capital crime, meaning, basically, that CSGV is calling for the author's execution). Actually acquiring bomb-making materials, to oppose "the capitalist free market paradigm," and to "fight against gross inequality in distribution of income and assets," as part of "the second American independence revolution," does not even merit discussion.
The "Coalition to Stop Gun Violence" seems rather unconcerned about any potential violence to be committed by the Army of "Occupation." And we are the "traitors"? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.This correspondent would certainly not meet Kamm's ideological requirements for gun ownership--a point of considerable pride. The question is, what does Kamm intend to do about it? Whose sons and daughters is he willing to send into harm's way in order to enforce his dream of ideology-based disarmament? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The Illinois state constitution does include its own protection for the right to keep and bear arms, but (at the urging of Cook County politicians) Section 22 of the state constitution was amended in 1970 to qualify the right to keep and bear arms with "Subject only to the police power." In other words, gun rights in Illinois "shall not be infringed"--except to the extent that the state chooses to infringe on them.
It seems as if Illinois gun owners might be better off petitioning to join the United States, since they seem at the moment to be denied one of the rights guaranteed--at least in theory--to residents of the other 49 states. On November 6, in fact, the voters in 10 Illinois counties (100% of the counties that had put the measure up for a vote) approved non-binding resolutions in support of concealed carry. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.A reduction in violence is not necessary to justify more draconian gun laws--if the laws help express his distaste for guns, that is all the justification he needs.
Doctor, heal thyself--or better yet, find a better, saner healer for that job. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.We "need to get off [our] literal following of the Constitution"? We are, in other words, to believe that the supreme law of the land is to be taken figuratively? What point could there be to a Constitution in which every guarantee of the people's rights can be dismissed as not really meaning what it says? What would be to stop the government from claiming, for example, that the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech is a figure of, well . . . speech?
As Americans, we will not be limited to only the rights that meet the approval of someone who believes that the Constitution is no more than a suggestion to the government about the limits on its power. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The next step should be to protect commerce in both guns and marijuana with legislation patterned off Wyoming's Firearms Freedom Act, which imposes criminal penalties on agents of the federal government who enforce federal gun laws in defiance of Wyoming law (a proposed, but not passed, New Hampshire law would have gone even further, and made the penalty a felony).
Given the power of the federal government, the state police and county sheriffs would likely need some assistance in enforcing these laws against violation by federal agencies like the DEA and BATFE. A strong, well equipped militia would be just the ticket, although the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence would inevitably shriek "insurrection!" [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.If you do not yet have the weapons, ammunition and ancillary gear you need to defend your family, your freedom and your life, it would certainly make sense to acquire them as soon as possible--while it is possible. For the future, though, think about how preferable it would be to defeat the evil of forcible citizen disarmament, rather than scrambling in preparation for enduring it. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.No one wants liberty to hang on "voting from the rooftops" (or perhaps, given the recent dust-up with the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, "voting from the explosives workshop"), but that will happen before we allow ourselves to be disarmed. Depend on it. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Acquiring theoretical knowledge about how to build such weapons is preparation--and rather early stage preparation, at that. The government's preparations for war with the people could be said to be rather further along, and remember that this administration claims the "clear authority" to kill U.S. citizens without trial. If preparation for war is the same as waging it, as CSGV seems to contend, then the war has already started, with the government as the aggressor.
As Mike Vanderboegh (the real target of Horwitz's latest) has often said (worded various ways), "If the rule of law no longer protects us from government tyranny, it no longer protects that tyranny and its acolytes from us." The government would be very well advised to remember that, and also that the resistance will be equipped with more than firearms. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.In a very real sense, CSGV is claiming that there can be no tyranny, no serfdom, no oppression, as long as the government generously restrains itself from actually killing the people (although CSGV advocates a government "right" to do that, too).
Imagine if, for the birth of our nation, we were not blessed with the greatness of Patrick Henry, but instead cursed with the abject, boot-licking cowardice of CSGV. "Give me liberty or give me death" would have been replaced with "Give me liberty, or . . . not, but at least let me keep my pathetic, cowardly life!" If, instead of Benjamin Franklin, we had CSGV: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve a big pat on the back for being so clever." There would, in short, have been no birth of the United States of America as a free nation. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The Oath Keepers are one more obstacle in the path of CSGV's "government monopoly on force," and still more unforgivably, act as that obstacle despite being what groups like CSGV hope would be a primary instrument of that monopoly. Bad news for the government's war at home--and its CSGV cheerleaders. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Still more recently than that, we observed that merely advocating acquiring the knowledge to construct "Constitutional pyrotechnics," as a militia ordnance engineer, is enough for CSGV to advocate sending the FBI (armed, of course) to imprison the offending author, with the understanding that if he resists robustly enough, he will be killed.
The guys with the guns do indeed make the rules, and the "gun control" groups would not change that even if they could. What they would change is the fact that it is We the People who have hundreds of millions of the guns. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.If one argues that merely reporting multiple handgun sales is not enough to interdict trafficking, and that what is needed is a multiple handgun sale ban, how can one argue that a multiple rifle sale reporting requirement will be enough to stop the trafficking?
The gun ban groups, and their ideological allies in both the mass media and the government, will not try to make that argument. They are simply waiting for the right time to say that the reporting requirement was a "good first step," but more is needed. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.In Illinois, carrying effective means of self-defense makes one a "criminal" #wearebetterthanthis
Readers can undoubtedly come up with many more of their own, but feel free to copy the above examples as well.
We are better than a society that allows a "government monopoly on force"--or at least we had better be. If not, we will have only ourselves to blame for the outcome. [More]
Today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner column talked about the laughable campaign that the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence started yesterday to pressure Examiner.com into dropping me as a writer, and maybe even (get this) get me arrested for "Advocating Overthrow of Government".
The "strategist" behind this, especially the get-me-arrested part, is Michael Bannerman (aka "Laci the Dog"), whom we most recently discussed here. Laci the Bannerman . . . oops, I mean Michael the Dog . . . hell--something like that--is an apparently severely mentally handicapped attorney.
Interestingly (well, "hilariously" is more accurate), Bannerman, who enthusiastically parrots CSGV's charges against me of "treason," and of being a "traitor," has himself publicly expressed his great admiration for Benedict Arnold.
Unfortunately, by the time I wrote today's column, Bannerman had, for whatever reason (and that is an interesting question), made his plans for my demise, as outlined on CSGV's Facebook page, unavailable for viewing, by the rather extreme method of closing his Facebook account altogether. But then again . . .
. . . The internet never forgets, and Google Cache comes to the rescue. Don't know how long that will be up, so I of course took screen captures (click to enlarge):
Update: Oops--apparently, Bannerman's Facebook account is still active after all--just blocked from my eyes. Going to his comments in a browser in which I am not logged into Facebook, I see them just fine. Sorry for the confusion.
Most of the details (such as they are) appear in the second one. Here are some "highlights":
report Hofmann here https://tips.fbi.govAnd . . .
FBI — Tips
tips.fbi.gov
The information I've provided on this form is correct to the best of my knowledge. I understand that providing false information could subject me to fine, imprisonment, or both. (Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 1001).
BTW, this violates the examiner's ToS: 6. Prohibited Content and Activities You agree that you will not post to the Site, or use the Site to transmit or make available any Content that: violates any laws or regulations, contains any threats, is abusive, tortious, harassing, vulgar, obscene, indecent, violates any person's rights of privacy or publicity, is defamatory, libelous, hateful, contains any disparaging statements or opinions regarding racial, gender or ethnic background, or is otherwise objectionable;And . . .
I think if enough complaints are made to the examiner at: legal@examiner.com--don't forget to cite 18 USC CHAPTER 115, Specifically, 18 U.S.C. § 2385, which violates the ToS. And the FBI, they'll begin to get the message.
Oh--CSGV was quite interested in pursuing this:
Michael, please email us your reading of that case law at csgv@csgv.orgPerhaps the most interesting of Bannerman's comments, though, was the last one:
Michael Bannerman I am posting this at the Brady Discussion group. Additionally, I would also suggest that other also fille [sic] a complaint to the FBI using the above link. Dennis v. US says this is treason, and anyone who lived through the 60s knows that the left was persecuted by this statute.
What I find interesting about this is not that Bannerman is whining about the supposed "double standard" of prosecuting a commie in the Dennis v. U.S. case--that's too predictable to be interesting. No, the interesting part is that he complains that "the left was 'persecuted' [not 'prosecuted']." In other words, he seems to be basically admitting that what he wants for me is not prosecution for some notional crime that I obviously never committed, but persecution, for daring to say things that offended his delicate sensibilities.
That would piss me off, if it weren't so hysterically hilarious that he apparently thought (and perhaps still does) that this has some chance of actually working. No hard feelings here--I'll just continue to laugh at his dumb ass.
By the way, am supremely grateful for the support of several of my favorite bloggers:
Why Does CSGV Feel So Threatened By A Blogger In A Wheelchair?
Friday CSGV Nuttery Dump.
The Hofmann Menace
John Richardson asks: Why Does CSGV Feel So Threatened By A Blogger In A Wheelchair?
Ladd Everitt/CSGV Get Their Censorship On
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The Second Amendment to the Constitution is the firewall which secures all the other amendments in the Bill of Rights, but to some extent, the First Amendment protects the others, including the Second, as well. If the gun ban lobby can win a "monopoly on authority to define the Second Amendment," they can render that portion of the Bill of Rights irrelevant, thus coming closer to realizing their dream of a "government monopoly on force."
CSGV's push for forcible citizen disarmament is merely the means to an end, that end being a docile, obedient, subservient (and "progressive") society that does not dare--and cannot even imagine--questioning, let alone resisting, the government, no matter its excesses. It should therefore come as no surprise that they see the First Amendment as much an obstacle to overcome as is the Second. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.CSGV's Twitter feed repeatedly excoriates the county's residents for not agreeing to a tax increase, thus "refus[ing] to give law enforcement the resources they need" (more on that theme here and here). Kinda sounds like a protection racket, doesn't it? "You got a real nice county here. Hate to see anything happen to it." Just give the government more money, and you won't need the means to defend yourself, your family and your community. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Two things could have prevented this atrocity: the killer's imprisonment before it ever happened, or the ability of his intended victims to effectively resist. The police chose not to make the first happen, and would have enforced the prohibition against the second.
And somehow, this is the NRA's fault. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.In other words, according to "another great column" (so says CSGV), this "undecided voter" (despite apparently also being a registered Democrat) would vote not for the candidate who has vowed to seek to renew the "assault weapons ban," but for the one who has vowed (credibly or not) to oppose it, if the latter can convince her that he would be better for the economy.
An army of gun rights advocates would be willing to die to prevent the forcible disarmament of America--and a willingness to die for a cause implies a willingness to kill for it, as well. How many "gun control" advocates are willing to die for an "assault weapons" ban? Whatever the number, we have enough ammo for all of them. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.In other words, the government is to be empowered to demand respect, and failure to comply "borders on" the capital crime of treason.
With every word, CSGV more clearly reveals that the group wants our guns taken, but only as a means to an end. The desired end is a docile, obedient nation of herbivores that relies on the government so completely that the mere thought of resistance against that government, for any reason, is impossible.
A citizenry that allows that end to be realized can only blame itself for whatever happens to it. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Still, a mayor who disparages the idea of citizens protecting themselves from violent crime, but instead asks them to rely on the Cardinals to provide their security is a mayor who could be said to have a rather tenuous grasp on reality. At least one former Cardinal would probably agree.
Could be worse, though--at least he is apparently not counting on a Rams playoff run to save the city. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.With the Supreme Court, after all, having ruled that the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right of the people, and if the nominal cost of photo ID is an illegal imposition on the right to vote, how can banning "cheap handguns" be anything but an imposition on the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms?
Still, racial issues aside, a president with a well known, long established proclivity for "gun control," who now seems willing to impose such control by making firearms too expensive to own, could be said to have an incentive to govern in such a way as to foster a moribund economy that renders vast numbers of Americans of all races too poor to defend themselves. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Obama once supposedly assured Sarah Brady that he was working "under the radar" on forcible citizen disarmament. He has apparently now decided that the time for stealth has ended.
The gloves are coming off--ours must as well. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The forcible citizen disarmament lobby's reliance on the (badly, and probably deliberately, misinterpreted) Miller decision is notable for another reason. Has so much weight ever been accorded to any other Supreme Court decision in which there was no oral argument given--nor even a written brief filed--for the defense?
That, one could argue, is just what one might expect from the Second Amendment deniers. Like a government bent on tyranny (or a thug bent on rape, or a lunatic bent on mass murder), they greatly prefer that their objective be undefended, and their agenda unopposed. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Eventually, of course, the Brady staffer's tenuous connection to reality solidified enough to force the realization that this Facebook post made the group a laughingstock, so the post was taken down and replaced (how much more embarrassing can a post be, than for one's only hope to salvage a tiny shred of dignity is to replace it with a whining plea for attention?).
Yes, last night was a disappointment, but at least no one came out of it looking like the Brady Campaign. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.In other words, if, as VPC seems to claim, shooting deaths in the "DMV" (District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia) are remarkably high relative to the rest of the country, the logical conclusion would seem to be that restrictive gun laws are not an effective deterrent to "gun violence." That comes as no surprise to those of us who have honestly followed the gun rights vs. "gun control" debate for any length of time (some, in fact, convincingly argue exactly the opposite), but not a conclusion one would expect the VPC to lead us to. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Never mind that CSGV had never before placed that particular qualifier on their "monopoly" advocacy. The point is to remember that the discussion here was about the "government monopoly on force," so if that monopoly is about the use of "political violence," then what they're advocating is not only rendering the people's effective resistance to a tyrannical government impossible, but also that governments do have a right to use violence against citizens for political purposes. President Obama is presumably grateful. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Meanwhile, there are also proposals for new ammunition taxes at the state level. Illinois HB 1274 and HB 5167 do not look likely to go anywhere, but they do serve well as further demonstrations (if such demonstrations were necessary) of Illinois Democrats' desire to punish peaceable gun owners for the crimes of violent thugs.
If we are to have a "violence tax," then we should impose it directly on the criminals committing the violence, and make it payable in blood. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.In other words, one should not expect even widespread availability of the means to easily make effective firearms at home to win the war on "gun control" by itself. In the end, it will still require decent people willing to fight and die--or, preferably, kill--for their liberty. The government's problem is our hands--they're not cold and dead yet. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Andrew Goddard is the father of professional victim Colin "The Alchemist" Goddard, and generally tries to portray himself as passionately opposed to "gun violence"--and here he is wishing the decapitation by firearm of an American citizen. Interestingly, CSGV has tacitly endorsed Goddard's bloody wish by not criticizing the comment or deleting it (CSGV routinely deletes comments it doesn't like, including over half of them on this post--so much for "reasoned discourse"--but Goddard's is still there. In fact, four people gave that comment the "thumbs up" of approval.
CSGV and their fellow travelers are so committed to their sick agenda of a "government monopoly on force" that they wish death on those who would make that monopoly impossible. Such people are exactly the reason the "Wiki Weapon" project is so vital to not only Americans, but to the world. [More]
Earlier this week, I wrote about the "Wiki Gun" project, headed by a young man named Cody Wilson, to develop a design for a handgun to be made in its entirety by a 3-D printer, and to then make that design available, free of charge, to anyone with internet access. It's an ambitious project, and not all of the difficulties are mechanical in nature (the makers of the high-end 3-D printer revoked the lease without warning when they became aware of the nature of the project).
Yesterday, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence noted this development on their Facebook page. This is not the first time CSGV has been disturbed by this impending death of "gun control"--an earlier article of mine prompted this anguished bleating on CSGV's Facebook page (check out the comments, too--they're hilarious):
The latest in gun nuttery: Insurrectionists threatening to make AK-47s out of printers if new gun laws enacted.They also mentioned it on Twitter.
The latest comment replying to yesterday's CSGV Facebook post is especially interesting:
Michael Bannerman: He should be arrested for doing this.If the name "Michael Bannerman" sounds familiar, there is a good reason for that. Bannerman is the real name of the rabidly, virulently, anti-guns, anti-rights, subhuman sack of vileness who more often writes under the name of his hideous, mangy, rodent-like "dog," to whom he refers as "Laci the Dog."
I've talked about this little parasite a couple times before. Nowadays, he doesn't seem to be currently active on any blogs of his own, but often spews his intellectually and morally bankrupt verbal pollution at "Mikeb302000"--just the place for such sewage.
Now he is advocating the arrest of a man against whom there is exactly ZERO evidence of any crimes (oh, and did I mention that Bannerman is a lawyer?). Pretty much par for the course, I suppose.
If people like that ever acquire any power, we're going to have to get our hands very bloody. I'm ready.
Update: CSGV is now worried enough about Cody Wilson (the "Wiki Weapon" visionary) to have hung the dreaded "insurrectionist" label on him (and again, check out the comments--they're precious). In fact, he has even made their silly "Insurrectionism Timeline":
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Obviously, no matter what the answers to these questions are (and holding one's breath waiting for those answers from Isom is probably a bad idea), we will still not even have touched an explanation of how to reconcile such laws with shall not be infringed, or why every peaceable gun owner in the U.S. should suffer more oppressive gun regulation because of the crimes of St. Louis thugs.
Isom has been an enemy of gun rights his entire tenure in St. Louis, and apparently plans to end that tenure with no change to that status. And now, he will be teaching that anti-rights attitude to criminology students. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.She must know something about some imminent advance in weaponry, because obviously she cannot be contending that weapons themselves are obsolete. As long as the strong continue to prey on the weak, the large on the small, the numerous on the few, weapons, with their ability to make predation even by the strong risky, will be necessary.
On a larger scale, as long as people are organized under governments, people must have the power to destroy those governments and their hired muscle, when those governments seek to abuse their power. In other words, weapons are unlikely ever to become obsolete. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.That, though, is largely beside the point. The Wiki Gun project is more a proof of concept than an attempt to produce practical firearms right now. This is something we have discussed before, and will be the death of "gun control." The "government monopoly on force" so beloved of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is becoming idle fantasy.
Not a moment too soon. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The massacres of young people could be said to have in a way been the point of "Project Gunwalker"--provoking visceral outrage over the appalling waste of innocent life, in order to engender public support for stricter gun regulation. It is well past time for Americans--and Mexicans--to punish those responsible for this abomination--this human sacrifice in service of a political goal (and an evil, unconstitutional, freedom crushing, genocide enabling goal at that). "No blood for 'gun control.'" [More]
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