Marion Hammer, the NRA’s top lobbyist in Florida, didn’t attend Tuesday’s public hearing on a Leon County gun ordinance because of death threats.
Hammer, usually a staple at legislative hearings on gun bills, acknowledged she wouldn’t attend the hearing in an email exchange over the weekend with County Commissioner Bryan Desloge.
“The death threats come with the job,” she said in a Sunday email. “I’ve dealt with it for many, many years. But it is so ugly this time NRA is insisting that I listen to my security advisers. It always amazes me how these people who claim to want to stop violence are so quick to threaten violence. I have never been afraid of them but it really makes me angry when they threaten my family.
Death threats kept Hammer from gun law hearing
I added ‘credible’ to the title because she has been getting death threats for the past 30 years or more. Most of them have been from assholes who are just full of crap and venting. But the last batch has been deemed believable enough to keep her from doing her job and that means the Opposition has whipped at least one individual into a frenzy and the damn the consequences.
What still surprises me is that people on our side are reluctant to understand that we could end up being hurt or killed by our opponents. I should not have to remind everybody that Antifa has had no issues doing harm to people and property while being pretty much untouched by the Justice System until the Inauguration Day arrests and prosecutions. I am also amazed that our side has forgotten James Hodgkinson shooting the softball match between Republican congressmen which resulted in the grave injuries to House Majority Whip Steve Scalise? (see what happens when you buy into the “Let’s not mention the shooter ever again”?)
I am not saying that the Parkland Shooting was a targeted conspiracy, but just the result of pre-planned policies all over the school system that eventually would lead to a mayor incident. They did not know where was going to happen or when it was going to happen, but that it would be happening. They prepared for it and just bid their time and sprung the shit storm we are living right now. You do not court the Media for 30 years, tell them how to write about guns and how to characterize gun owners in their presentations (News, movies, TV shows) without affecting certain amount of the population who are now “berserking” themselves into committing acts of violence upon us and which will be blamed on us too.
I am afraid that the time for politeness alone may be over. I hope that does not come to it, but I am afraid that events will lead to a violent confrontation created by people who really have no idea what violence is and have the silly notion they can control it because, somehow, our side will play by the rules they tell us to follow while they play without any.
It will be then that we should be ha[[y to introduce them to one of Colonel Cooper’s most illuminating quotes regarding violence:
“One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that ‘violence begets violence.’ I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure — and in some cases I have — that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.”
Michael Bane has been saying it quite forcefully: “They want you dead.” Do not think he is exaggerating, or being bombastic for the sake of calling attention to himself. The threat is very real, I have seen in Venezuela the violence thrusted upon those who dissented and the bodies of the innocent and disarmed piled up.
And they will not stop until they either win or they get to feel in their own flesh what happens when Freedom is defended. Make it really expensive for the Opposition.
Goons supporting the Chavez Government opened fire against peaceful demonstrators in Caracas.
A mass shooting incident where a Chavez supporter shot at an Anti-Chavez rally killing there people and wounded 28.
April 11, 2002. Government supporters shoot from a bridge against people marching against the policies of Hugo Chavez. 19 dead, over 100 wounded.
This is what Gun Control looks like. This is what Gun Control activists and other Liberals want to happen in this country.
I feel we are about to refresh the Tree of Liberty.
I wonder if the county officials organized that.
I would not be surprised.
No, but I wouldn’t be shocked if they gave passes to dangerous lunatics who would do it. Like Congressional Democrats giving access to Code Pink.
Take the appropriate steps to protect yourself. Don’t be a “forfeit”, as eminent trainer Tom Givens puts it, because you didn’t carry the tools to defend yourself… or make plans to do so.
I was thinking: this seems like an opportunity for ordinary gun owners in that county to make a public statement. Offer to provide a flying phalanx around Hammer, to bring her into that hearing surrounded by a team of protectors. Preferably carrying, of course, if that location isn’t a disarmed victim zone.