At the end of the service, I was left thinking that the pastor had failed to capture Uncle Obie’s hard and resilient side. But when we returned to his home after the funeral and went to the bedroom to change clothes, we found a loaded shotgun behind the door. My mother and I both smiled and laughed—that was Uncle Obie. Like many black Southerners of this generation who kept the shotgun behind the door, my uncle had Christian faith and a faith in self-defense.

via Fighting for Rights With Faith—and Faith in Self-Defense – The Root.

If book burning would be possible to do without enraging its basic core of supporters too much, the progressive politicos would order to collect every sample of the book by Charles E. Cobb  This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible and possibly the author and anybody who read the book and send them to a gas-fired oven.

There are evil and stupid people who have no problem using violence as  first means to achieve goals or stop others from achieving theirs. Unfortunately, these people do not understand reason…or they do, they are just not moved by it, so sometimes we need to respond with equal or greater violence to remain alive. And since they are human (or a very passable facsimile) they enjoy keeping blood and assorted body parts inside their bodies and are usually very allergic to pain, therefore making a firearm the best behavioral modification tool available to the regular folks.