A year ago, the forces of Gun Control were in full blast aiming for our collective jugulars. AWB Part Deux was being waved as the Final Answer for the “gun epidemic.” the Media was still crapping kittens about Wayne LaPierre’s “Good guy with a Gun.” Congress was feeling pressured by the Gun Control zealots and some members started to transform their spines into jello. A new gun control group was formed, genetically modified as astroturf and it would soon become Moms Demand Action.
Experts across the intelligentsia assured us that the NRA was toast and that Gun Control was finally coming and was here to stay forever with the promise of Peace on Earth, free DirecTV and 90% discount on Unicorn Farts.
We took some bloody hits this year. The usual Suspect States of NY, California, New Jersey and Connecticut got even stupider laws which none would have prevented a Sandy Hook event. Colorado got into the Dark Ages but it was a Pyrrhic victory when three senators had to forsake they political lives and a message… my ass a message, a shot across the bow was sent to every politician: You Will Pay For Voting Anti Gun. Even Newly Elected Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe saw half of his 14 point lead evaporate the moment he started to spout Anti Gun rhetoric.
And we cannot dismiss the acquittal of George Zimmerman as a victory for Gun Rights (and for George himself, that is obvious.) A guilty verdict was going to be the cornerstone that Antis would have used to build a monumental case against Stand Your Ground Laws. Even though the case itself had nothing to do with it, The Narrative was set that way as the knives were being sharpen and everybody ready to kill that “evil” law. But the jury’s decision just killed the initiative and the hopes they had to send us back to medieval England and Duty to Retreat.
This is not to say that the Opposition will give up: They won’t. My guess is that they will try again to go the Colorado way because they understand that there is no will at the federal level to implement changes via Congress. Stay informed and support your State level Gun Rights organization plus the NRA, The Second Amendment Foundation and whomever else you deem worthy. Also, be on the look-out for fake Gun Rights Organizations that are either fronts for Gun Control Groups (Usually found saying “reasonable” or “have a conversation” or any iteration of the clichés used by the usual suspects) Also keep an eye on those out-of-the-blue groups that are wildly strident and as for an immediate donation: double and triple check them as they are nothing more than con artists that have no problem crapping on other pro-gun groups.
I’d say we dodged a big one, but in reality we did not. We stood strong, fought harder, overcame them by sheer numbers, activism and noise . And they lost…bad.
Man, Gun Control Activists must madder than an Amish electrician.
Amish Electrician, LOL.
There is never a time that civil rights advocates can take a break, the gun control cult wont. That being said, I see MDA as the biggest threat to our rights and they are currently on life support. Sure they can come up with some whiz bang catch phrases and print up up some nice graphics, but now they’re reduced from pushing for national gun control, to local gun control, to pressuring a DA to file charges against a single individual for the unintentional shooting of a two-month-old. MDA won’t be stuck on life support forever, though. There will be another atrocity, we all know that. As long as good people are prohibited from protecting kids, there will be evil people plotting to be the next rock star, may or may not chose the easy target, and then get their name written into the history books (and earn their own wiki page).
On a related note, as gun rights advocates we need to slow down with the ‘we have a mental health issue’. We do not have a mental health issue, we have an evil issue. Mental health can be treated, if it’s caught in time, evil cannot be treated with anything other than an overwhelming show of force when it presents its ugly head.
Happy New Year to everyone. Yes, indeed, 2013 was quite the year.
Let’s do one thing, however. Let’s call Newtown a tragedy and not an “event.” It is what it is and trying to make it seem to be anything less significant is, well, “obvious.”
And I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: GZ is going to come back to haunt us. The less his name is mentioned and memorialized in our ranks the better.
Let’s get 2014 going.
“GZ is going to come back to haunt us. The less his name is mentioned and memorialized in our ranks the better.”
HOW DARE HE DEFEND HIMSELF AND NOT BE PERFECTION IMMACULATE!!!
Bleh. Speak for yourself. Look at how he’s lived his life, and you’ll find someone who’s done a million times more for his community and the victims of crime than any of the people who spit on him. I have no doubt he’s screwed up more than once, and that he will screw up again, but that’s because he’s a human being. If that’s sufficient for YOU to throw him to the curb, well, I don’t what YOU “on my side”.
Objection — England in the middle ages had no “duty to retreat”. It took the fascist left seizing the institutions of government for that horrid concept to take hold.
I’d like to form a new gun rights group. My battlecry is “no compromise” and I demand that they take their unreasonable infringements and sail away to merry olde England with them. They can experience first hand the true fear of being disarmed in a hostile environment.
Don’t send me money; use yours to annoy the gun control illogical and ignorant fools by purchasing more guns and refusing to play along. Do not vote for any Democrat since their party plank contains gun control.
Finally, call or fax your representatives and insult them if they support GFZs, which are the closest things to believing in unicorns and Santa. We need to end GFZs…for the children!!!