The Biggest Pro Gun vote in Election Day you never heard about.
On Election Day, Louisiana voters overwhelmingly backed a measure to strengthen Second Amendment rights in the state. Nearly 75 percent of voters — more than 1.3 million — voted in favor of Act 784, which makes gun ownership a “fundamental right … under strict scrutiny of the court.”
via Louisiana votes a big “Yes” to expanding gun rights | Blog of New Orleans.
This one is huge even if some are poopoing it as in “What can one state do for the rest of the Nation? It is not like other states will follow.”
Which is exactly what was said about Florida’s Concealed Weapons’ law 25 years ago.
One down, 49 to go. Or is it 56? 🙂
The Blame Game.
Let’s get it out of the way, shall we?
The GOP fucked up in several levels. Once again they failed to seek a candidate that appealed to the core base of Conservatives as well as the most moderates. I believe that Mitt Romney is a good person (I met the guys years ago) but he is too “narrow” in his approach. Even though we are pragmatists, we do need to feel our candidate has a deep understanding of the Constitution and that did not come out well. The Republicans were never able to shake the blackout that the media had imposed on Romney’s message. The GOP still believes that the Old Media controls the message and played against their strengths instead of looking for their weaknesses.
The other big mistake was the treatment of the Hispanic population. In essence the GOP thought all Hispanics were of Mexican extraction and played accordingly. The Bush clan was keenly aware of this fact and knew what to say and do. Pundits declare that the immigration issue was a death knoll for the Republicans, but the East Coast Hispanics could not care less about it since the majority (Cubans and Puerto Ricans) are immune from any enforcement of the Immigration Laws and a great majority of other Hispanics Caribbean & South America) came legally or can achieve legal status easily and were leaving countries that turned socialist. Failing to use the images of Chavez, Correa, Morales & Kirchner is inexcusable. The Bush clan was great with Hispanics because: a) They were part of the family and b) knew the difference between what East Coast Hispanics worried about and same for the West Coast Hispanics. But apparently the Romney campaign forgot to borrow the manual from the Bushes.
There are some other stuff, but I’ll just stay with the above for now.
The Libertarians….. All I saw through the election cycle makes me comfortable in saying that the Libertarian Party is a myth as understood by the majority. Many people call themselves Libertarians because they believe in the principles enunciated by Ayn Rand in her works, but Rand herself had little of no patience for the Libertarian party and refused to be associated with them. Apparently Libertarians have managed to “hijack” Ayn Rand and that is what the majority of Americans see and feel attracted to. In reality what i have seen of the hard core Libertarian is the Right wing equivalent of the Anarchist/Occupy Wall Street movement but with a deep belief in personal hygiene. The Hard Core Libertarians are the Hipsters of our side.
Hard Core Libertarians are dogmatic. I tried to engage several of them and ask about some things that I did not agree on at face value to see if I was misunderstanding the message. Generally the answer was a rotund “Fuck you, that is the way it is.” which is not conductive to attracting people to your cause. The inability to accept people who do not toe what passes for the ideological line of the day/person guarantees very low numbers joining your cause. Double down if you yourself are unable to explain your position to the uninitiated and demand absolute obedience because it is a sure indicator that your philosophical base is not as solid as you thought. In lay terms, you don’t know what you are talking about.
And even between its Hard Core membership, the Libertarians do not have one cohesive message. The following pics are extracted from Facebook yesterday.
One Libertarian denies they were responsible and the other is literally basking in the embers of payback. That is a Schizophrenic message in anybody’s book and has been the theme since the election was over. Hard Core Libertarians firmly believed Ron Paul was electable when he wasn’t and same for Gary Johnson and as long as they behave they way they did all through this campaign, nobody is gonna give a rat’s ass about your candidates. That is not a conspiracy but simple market strategy: If you can’t sell it, don’t blame the customers.
To summarize: One group abandoned its ideals and smarts for power and the other has no idea what their ideas are and cannot sell what they don’t know. That is not a way to run a winning election.
Four Lies: You, Our Courts and Self-Defense by Marc MacYoung.
Now the ironic thing is a defense attorney defends an innocent person (someone who actually didn’t do it) in much the same manner as a guilty person. whom the attorney is trying to get off. Basically, if the guy didn’t do it, you rip apart the state’s case, challenge the evidence, and show that the ‘proof’ … well … isn’t.
Do yourself a favor and download the whole article. It is 17 pages long but worth reading. When you are done, send it to somebody you care about even if they are not in the Gun Culture. Four Lies You Our Courts and Self Defense.
Hopefully it will open the eyes of many people. Use the knowledge to prepare yourself.
If you can drop a line to the author and thank him.
Dear American liberals
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950’s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let’s just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is a our separation agreement:
––Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
––We don’t like redistributive taxes so you can keep them.
––You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
––Since you hate guns and war, we’ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military.
––We’ll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar and biodiesel.
––You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.
––We’ll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street.
––You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies and illegal aliens.
––We’ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO’s and rednecks.
––We’ll keep Bill O’Reilly, and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood .
––You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
––You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we’ll help provide them security.
––We’ll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
––You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill.
––We’ll keep the SUV’s, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.
––You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors.
––We’ll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.
––We’ll keep “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “The National Anthem.”
––I’m sure you’ll be happy to substitute “Imagine”, “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing”, “Kum Ba Ya” or “We Are the World”.
––We’ll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.
––Since it often so offends you, we’ll keep our history, our name and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I’ll bet you might think about which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
P.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin & Charlie Sheen, Barbara Streisand, & ( Hanoi ) Jane Fonda with you.
P.S.S. And you won’t have to press 1 for English when you call our country.
Before they change the algorithm.
A reader informed me yesterday that if you search “gun free zone” in Google, this humble blog is the first result. So I did and had to take a screencap before Google decides that a Pro Second Amendment Blog should not be the top selection and changes the algorithm.
0.25 seconds of fame!