Honey-toned Lock and Load Radio host Bill Frady writes:
I have just taken the time to view the No More Silence video agitprop that is coming from Moms Demand Action and Mayors Against Illegal Guns. It’s a perfect illustration if you ask me. Legs walking toward an un protected school with a sinister duffel bag swinging. Beautiful children and pensive adults re-living the 24/7 onslaught of “news” that was the coverage of that horrible attack on Sandy Hook. Everyone totally defenseless. Legs climb stairs, bag is discarded, door swings shut, time is up . . .
Unfortunately, as long as the insanity of the gun free zone persists, history will repeat itself. We will witness another spree shooter waltz into another place that prohibits self defense, and people are going to killed.
What should we think about elected officials who preach that being defenseless is the best way to combat these atrocities? How long will we, the gun carriers, allow ourselves to be considered the root of the subset of violent crime they call ‘Gun Violence”?
Allow me to make a few propositions of my own. First and foremost, since most gun owners acquire them voluntarily and of their own free will, you have to understand the subtext of the gun grabbing thought process. Progressives wish to and intend to rule your lives. Every aspect. Every nuance.
Your safety only matters to them, possibly, because you generate revenue which they can tax. Beyond that, individually, we would be subjects hold no real value. Self reliance and free thinking are processes that are contrary to their rule. They tell you the Bill of Rights is NOT absolute and you are expected to accept that.
For all of those reason’s we have to consider ourselves to be engaged in idealogical combat. And all of us are going to have to engage.
So they demand No More Silence? Very well.
Lawmakers, you are not going to gradually legislate away the teeth of the Constitution. And you are beginning to get that, aren’t you? Those televised faux pas that were the coverage nuggets during the DC Naval Yard shooting, sort of unmasked your voracious appetite for disarming ‘The Little People.” Trends are against you. Public opinion is against you. Your favorite 90% and 40% talking points have been savaged with facts. Your are losing the youth, black America, women, some low info voters. What on earth are you to do?
Oh yeah. Let’s recreate that one incident that made you believe the wind was at your backs. Lets tap dance in the blood of innocents. Recycle Piers Morgan, Ed Schulz and the other talking heads that only have manufactured talking points and ad hominem attacks. Vilify one third of the population that simply bother no one, just because they own one or many guns and get into the fun loop of what we need and don’t need.
Liberals know that all of their failed policies are at the root of roughly half of the “gun violence.” Black America has been conned and this realization is slowly creeping into their mindset. Liberals set swaths of America aside and call them “gun free zones” and then walk away, leaving them both unprotected and marked as an area where the law abiding will be disarmed.
Guess what, gun grabbers and politicians. These atrocities are yours. You facilitated them, enabled them, advertised them and lied about it afterward. America knows now, thankfully, that laws are words on paper and gun free zones are perimeter signs. Sandy Hook, Columbine, Aurora, the DC Naval Yard – these are all yours. You own them.
We are aware now and awake. And prepared. Logistically, you are beaten, gun grabbers. Be prepared because we have more capability. We are coming for you at the ballot box, unless you take that away, too.
But, I agree with you on one point. No more silence.
This post originally appeared at lockandloadradio.com and is republished here with permission. Click here to read Bill’s most excellent TTAG series How I Became an Anti-Gunner.
When I was a minor under my parent’s care, I remember them saying more than once, “And if everyone pooped in the middle of the street, would you do it too?” It was there way of teaching me that, while there is a strong and natural yearning to be part of your community, right and wrong still constrains your actions even if a majority of people are doing something.
Who here can put together a video? We need to film something that starts the same way, but as soon as the bag drops, a teacher turns, draws a CCW firearm, and puts two in the “visitors” chest”. The children continue playing, and am ambulance shows up to remove the potential predator. The End. If MDA can film the way they want it to happen, we can film it the way WE want it to happen….
“Half of the gun injuries physicians reported were caused by handguns. BB guns and air guns accounted for 18 percent of the injuries, and long guns accounted for 7 percent”
There something seriously wrong with their math skills.
Sounds like 18% of the physicians surveyed are fools. I don’t doubt that firearms as a hobby or lifestyle does carry some risks. However, those risks are to be weighed against the benefits and the ability of the individual to withstand them. The idea that firearms are so bad across the board that a physician would always recommend removal, without consideration of an individual’s circumstances, is the sort of shortcut to thinking that often leads to malpractice.
If you have asthma or emphysema, then maybe an indoor range isn’t for you, but outdoor is fine. If you’re pregnant or may become pregnant, then perhaps gloves and minimal contact with lead ammo is appropriate. An Alzheimer’s patient might be one who should consider removal, depending in the state of their condition. But there certainly is no one size fits all solution. Physicians suggesting otherwise are violating their oath and abusing their patients’ trust.
“The idea that firearms are so bad across the board that a physician would always recommend removal, without consideration of an individual’s circumstances, is the sort of shortcut to thinking that often leads to malpractice.”
This is another indicator of a problem I’m seeing increasingly in doctors: they’re trained to treat your symptoms instead of curing the underlying disease.
I will take the German hunting Course starting 11 Feb – 26 Apr 2014, does any one have any pointers on passing the test or what the test format is? I’m sure it not a multiple choice best guest format…
Thanks
“Logistically, you are beaten, gun grabbers”
No, sorry, they really have not been beaten. 49% of the public still wants more gun control (a percentage that is a supermajority of 60% among women). When only 35% support more gun control and less than 50% of women support it, then I might entertain the idea that they are getting beaten.
Ordered 2 holsters–one for a Shield and another for a G17 (they were running a 20% off deal from Cyber Monday through Fri). I ordered them and then re-thought if I wanted them with or without laser/lights. Alex and Tyler have both been VERY responsive with my emails. Haven’t received my order yet. I await them eagerly–hoping by Christmas 🙂 . I will certainly give my impressions once I have them both. Thus far its seems like its a small company trying to bust their butt growing it and offering quality gear
Why? Why do you feel a need to race to the phone?
This is making me seriously consider getting a landline.
Erm, nitpicky statement, but isnt Freedom Group stylized as Freedom Group instead of The Freedom Group?
Otherwise carry on.
I’m so proud of the Journal Sentinel on this one. This is definitely not a very conservative newspaper. They have received numerous awards for their investigative journalism, and they seem to turn out at least one award-winning investigation per year, if not more. They’ve done work on shady daycares in the city stealing money from the state, the Milwaukee City pension system, and now this. Old fashioned journalism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Journal_Sentinel#Awards
Nice vid- thanks Dan. Self defense with a gun is part of a continuum, IMHO, that is a lifetime hobby and worthy pursuit for self-enlightenment.
Very part-time over the years martial arts student here who is finding the move to adding practical self-defense gun use to grappling to be very smart and practical, as I get older, slower, less flexible, and interested in much more, especially from real-world MMA fighters with practical gun field experience. Thats rare, and in the meantime I am always looking to find that source.
As a Kali resident with no likely access to CCW for some time, due to the local sheriff May Issue interpretation, I’m working instead on getting in better shape and updating some old habits, and am especially attracted to krav maga, for its background from the field,
vs the beautiful but somewhat impractical kicks and kata of my former japanese and korean karate study.
One quibble- speaking as a one-time decent wrestler, with a bit of formal judo, I have to say I just cringed at that move at 2:20 – maybe I missed something but falling backward with the body weight of your attacker holding you in a locked reverse half nelson looks like a REALLY good way to break your own neck…not sure I would even advocate practicing this move in a dojo under supervision…much less online. Maybe I missed something- but,
Why not just draw and point shoot to the gut/groin/femoral artery/knee or even opposite foot? Any of those would be faster and break the lock, and if your head were tucked under the other guys side, you could shoot to off-side, by feel if necessary, if hearing damage is the concern.
Humbly awaiting enlightenment from sensei’s with real world experience…
Citizens vs. Subjects.