You want guns taken away from citizens, and yet nobody with a lick of personal brainpower trusts the government that absolutely. John Lovell, The Warrior Poet, goes man on the street and makes this really sound argument in the form of asking who should get to decide on gun ownership, and then a follow up: do you trust the government.
Guns are a trap. Please consider this: in the past 50 years the National Organization of Women has organized 3/4 (+/-) of American women into an obedient community. What do I mean by obedient? First it begins with sororities. If a woman is not attached to any community, if she walks her own walk without obedience to any “feminist leader” she will be assaulted on multiple fronts. She will be fired without cause or recourse (the gals in charge of HR are very good at that and very obedient to an external command). She will have multiple face-to-face incursions into her home by “female up comers” women who “need to prove I can take charge so I can move up in the organization”. It is the well organized structure of sororities that made the NOW possible, it gave them enforcement power! Any woman whose husband isn’t making enough money will be available to do some “little dirty trick” to remind her she is wrong. AND, most importantly they have total control of America’s teachers. Those women will do whatever they are told to do–publicly destroy a young boy? Yeah baby! Force a weak girl into video classwork, so they don’t have to deal with her in person–easy peasy. All this and so much more is made possible by the foundational structure and support of the sororities in America. From the time they pledge to become a member young women are indoctrinated into obedience. That is what we are competing against, and it is what we have to emulate–a long time before guns!
Anonymous, If men started acting like men–problem solved. As far as the beautiful picture–Psalm 19–“The heavens declare the glory of God”.
ghostsniperJune 12, 2023, 11:23 AM
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
– H. L. Mencken
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one.
– Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764.
Gun control laws increase the power of government and the criminal element over the average citizen and serve no other purpose.
– Robert E. Lee
“The said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.”
– Samuel Adams in Massachusetts
“[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights and those of their fellow citizens.”
– Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 29
“The great object is that every man be armed…. Everyone who is able may have a gun. … Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.”
– Patrick Henry, Virginia
“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
– George Mason
Considered the right to keep and bear arms “the palladium of the liberties of the republic,” which enables the citizenry to deter tyranny.
– Justice Joseph Story (appointed by James Madison) in his “Commentaries on the Constitution”
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants,” an admonition made possible by the right to bear arms of parity with those of the standing army. – Thomas Jefferson
“The advantage of being armed…the Americans possess over the people of all other nations…. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several Kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
– James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights, Federalist No. 26
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power.”
– Noah Webster
The Second Amendment says that an armed public is “necessary to the security of a free State,” and, “this is the justification clause to its operative clause, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
– UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”
– Joseph Stalin
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
– Mao Tse-Tung
“Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It does not matter if you have to distort facts or even lie.”
– Sarah Brady –Handgun Control , Inc., The National Educator, January, 1994) (Quoted in the Texas State Rifle Accos. Publication, TRSA Sportsman, Mar/Apr 1999, page 17)
Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don’t have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
– Yoshimi Ishikawa, Japanese author commenting on the lack of protest with which Japanese tolerated governmental corruption, Los Angeles Times, 10/15/92
Using cross-sectional time-series data for U.S. counties from 1977 to 1992, we find that allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths. If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravated assaults would have been avoided yearly.
– Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns John R. Lott, Jr., School of Law Univ. of Chicago
“We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest … So then we’ll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time …. The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of guns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of *all* handguns and *all* handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — totally illegal.”
– Pete Shields, Chairman Emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc. ( “The New Yorker”, July 26, 1976 )
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
– Benjamin Franklin, reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the governor, 11/11/1755
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory can be sure and not too costly, you may come to a moment when you have to fight with all the odds against you, and only a precarious chance to survive. There may even be a worse case – You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, and it will be better to perish than to live in slavery.
– Winston Churchill, 1937
Fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.
– Sigmund Freud
The term “assault weapon” originated in military nomenclature. It is defined as a fully-automatic rifle, carbine or submachine gun. “Fully automatic” means if you hold the trigger down, the gun will continue firing until the magazine is empty. Such firearms have been heavily restricted in America since 1934. Today, they are owned almost exclusively by specially licensed collectors, and are almost never used in crime. “Semi-automatic” means the gun will fire one round each time you pull the trigger.
“Which gun control laws helped save Jewish lives during the Holocaust?”
– Anonymous
“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves… and include all men capable of bearing arms.” – Richard Henry Lee, Senator, First Congress
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
– Joseph Stalin
“The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subject peoples to possess arms. So let’s not have any talk about native militias.”
– Adolf Hitler: Hitler’s Secret Conversations, 1941-44, Farrar, Strauss and Young, 1953
“On every occasion…[of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
– Thomas Jefferson (June 12 1823, Letter to William Johnson)
Casey KlahnJune 12, 2023, 12:31 PM
Best comment posted ever!
Thank you; it’s a keeper.
ghostsniperJune 12, 2023, 2:37 PM
Ponder for a moment, any one of those noted great men, even the criminals, have more sense than ANY american politician today.
In aggregate, ALL of the american politicians today are not worthy to wipe the sweated balls of any of the above.
What an embarrassing sorry assed state this country has become.
A nation of cowards and idiots headed by an over-bloated organization of spineless, lying criminals.
This defies honest, truthful reality and cannot last.
ghostsniperJune 12, 2023, 12:25 PM
These meme artists, jeez.
This one will have ya screemin with laffter:
The problem DeSantis has is a matter of authenticity. In the big picture, authenticity is an outcome of believing in your message. President Trump is exceptionally authentic because his America First message is his. President Trump believes his message. Juxtapose this with the brutally inauthentic Ron DeSantis, and you’ll find the outcome of a candidate who is selling the message created by others.
The Florida governor is a manufactured outcome of consultants, advisors and brand image managers who create the message that DeSantis has to sell. The result is something very weird, inauthentic and cringe. WATCH the Twitter Video:
DeSantis may be good for Florida – I don’t know, I don’t live anywhere close – but the more I see about him, the less I see him working at a national level as a “substitute DJT” – not that I ever saw him in that light but some do. I’m not sure I’d pull the lever for DeSantis.
RFK2’s the ringer; I want to see how long he lasts. 3rd Party? I think he may be more “not really D” than DJT is “not really R”. I can see large numbers of disillusioned from both sides voting for him.
Me? I’m thinking more and more of blowing off the out-of-my-control races and only voting local. Small enough area that every vote does count.
Mike SeyleJune 13, 2023, 5:37 PM
Understand your sentiment, DT, and still: I’m going to vote for Trump even with the knowledge that it’s a rigged game. Somehow, I believe that if enough of us do it, and a huge number at that, then maybe it’ll work. Of course, before you ask, I do believe in Santa Claus. But I’ll vote. I’ll go down screaming, with my stylus in hand, blood on my face, teeth knocked out. But I’m going to vote.
I was looking at some old posts from Sippy’s site (link below), this comment still tickles me.
“So I went to the same desk in the State House where Paul Newman asks for a phone book in The Verdict, except he’s pretending he’s in a hospital, and I’m pretending I’m in a bookstore. The person behind the counter was pretending to be working in both cases. Only a state worker in Massholechusetts can pretend you’re not there, and avoid eye contact entirely, even though they aren’t doing anything and there’s only 24 inches of formica between you. It’s an astonishing talent.” https://www.sippicancottage.com/2013/11/so-me-and-paul-newman-walk-into-state.html
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Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
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You want guns taken away from citizens, and yet nobody with a lick of personal brainpower trusts the government that absolutely. John Lovell, The Warrior Poet, goes man on the street and makes this really sound argument in the form of asking who should get to decide on gun ownership, and then a follow up: do you trust the government.
https://youtu.be/S_xrjbL5o98
Guns are a trap. Please consider this: in the past 50 years the National Organization of Women has organized 3/4 (+/-) of American women into an obedient community. What do I mean by obedient? First it begins with sororities. If a woman is not attached to any community, if she walks her own walk without obedience to any “feminist leader” she will be assaulted on multiple fronts. She will be fired without cause or recourse (the gals in charge of HR are very good at that and very obedient to an external command). She will have multiple face-to-face incursions into her home by “female up comers” women who “need to prove I can take charge so I can move up in the organization”. It is the well organized structure of sororities that made the NOW possible, it gave them enforcement power! Any woman whose husband isn’t making enough money will be available to do some “little dirty trick” to remind her she is wrong. AND, most importantly they have total control of America’s teachers. Those women will do whatever they are told to do–publicly destroy a young boy? Yeah baby! Force a weak girl into video classwork, so they don’t have to deal with her in person–easy peasy. All this and so much more is made possible by the foundational structure and support of the sororities in America. From the time they pledge to become a member young women are indoctrinated into obedience. That is what we are competing against, and it is what we have to emulate–a long time before guns!
Anonymous, If men started acting like men–problem solved. As far as the beautiful picture–Psalm 19–“The heavens declare the glory of God”.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
– H. L. Mencken
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one.
– Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764.
Gun control laws increase the power of government and the criminal element over the average citizen and serve no other purpose.
– Robert E. Lee
“The said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.”
– Samuel Adams in Massachusetts
“[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights and those of their fellow citizens.”
– Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 29
“The great object is that every man be armed…. Everyone who is able may have a gun. … Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.”
– Patrick Henry, Virginia
“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
– George Mason
Considered the right to keep and bear arms “the palladium of the liberties of the republic,” which enables the citizenry to deter tyranny.
– Justice Joseph Story (appointed by James Madison) in his “Commentaries on the Constitution”
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants,” an admonition made possible by the right to bear arms of parity with those of the standing army. – Thomas Jefferson
“The advantage of being armed…the Americans possess over the people of all other nations…. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several Kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
– James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights, Federalist No. 26
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power.”
– Noah Webster
The Second Amendment says that an armed public is “necessary to the security of a free State,” and, “this is the justification clause to its operative clause, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
– UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”
– Joseph Stalin
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
– Mao Tse-Tung
“Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It does not matter if you have to distort facts or even lie.”
– Sarah Brady –Handgun Control , Inc., The National Educator, January, 1994) (Quoted in the Texas State Rifle Accos. Publication, TRSA Sportsman, Mar/Apr 1999, page 17)
Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don’t have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
– Yoshimi Ishikawa, Japanese author commenting on the lack of protest with which Japanese tolerated governmental corruption, Los Angeles Times, 10/15/92
Using cross-sectional time-series data for U.S. counties from 1977 to 1992, we find that allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths. If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravated assaults would have been avoided yearly.
– Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns John R. Lott, Jr., School of Law Univ. of Chicago
“We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest … So then we’ll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time …. The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of guns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of *all* handguns and *all* handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — totally illegal.”
– Pete Shields, Chairman Emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc. ( “The New Yorker”, July 26, 1976 )
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
– Benjamin Franklin, reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the governor, 11/11/1755
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory can be sure and not too costly, you may come to a moment when you have to fight with all the odds against you, and only a precarious chance to survive. There may even be a worse case – You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, and it will be better to perish than to live in slavery.
– Winston Churchill, 1937
Fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.
– Sigmund Freud
The term “assault weapon” originated in military nomenclature. It is defined as a fully-automatic rifle, carbine or submachine gun. “Fully automatic” means if you hold the trigger down, the gun will continue firing until the magazine is empty. Such firearms have been heavily restricted in America since 1934. Today, they are owned almost exclusively by specially licensed collectors, and are almost never used in crime. “Semi-automatic” means the gun will fire one round each time you pull the trigger.
“Which gun control laws helped save Jewish lives during the Holocaust?”
– Anonymous
“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves… and include all men capable of bearing arms.” – Richard Henry Lee, Senator, First Congress
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
– Joseph Stalin
“The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subject peoples to possess arms. So let’s not have any talk about native militias.”
– Adolf Hitler: Hitler’s Secret Conversations, 1941-44, Farrar, Strauss and Young, 1953
“On every occasion…[of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
– Thomas Jefferson (June 12 1823, Letter to William Johnson)
Best comment posted ever!
Thank you; it’s a keeper.
Ponder for a moment, any one of those noted great men, even the criminals, have more sense than ANY american politician today.
In aggregate, ALL of the american politicians today are not worthy to wipe the sweated balls of any of the above.
What an embarrassing sorry assed state this country has become.
A nation of cowards and idiots headed by an over-bloated organization of spineless, lying criminals.
This defies honest, truthful reality and cannot last.
These meme artists, jeez.
This one will have ya screemin with laffter:
https://westernrifleshooters.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/dca1b64fe364a3d7.png
How do these people come up with this stuff??
The problem DeSantis has is a matter of authenticity. In the big picture, authenticity is an outcome of believing in your message. President Trump is exceptionally authentic because his America First message is his. President Trump believes his message. Juxtapose this with the brutally inauthentic Ron DeSantis, and you’ll find the outcome of a candidate who is selling the message created by others.
The Florida governor is a manufactured outcome of consultants, advisors and brand image managers who create the message that DeSantis has to sell. The result is something very weird, inauthentic and cringe. WATCH the Twitter Video:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/11/desantis-breaks-cringe-meter-during-oklahoma-rodeo-appearance-donors-demand-more-authenticity-training/
DeSantis may be good for Florida – I don’t know, I don’t live anywhere close – but the more I see about him, the less I see him working at a national level as a “substitute DJT” – not that I ever saw him in that light but some do. I’m not sure I’d pull the lever for DeSantis.
RFK2’s the ringer; I want to see how long he lasts. 3rd Party? I think he may be more “not really D” than DJT is “not really R”. I can see large numbers of disillusioned from both sides voting for him.
Me? I’m thinking more and more of blowing off the out-of-my-control races and only voting local. Small enough area that every vote does count.
Understand your sentiment, DT, and still: I’m going to vote for Trump even with the knowledge that it’s a rigged game. Somehow, I believe that if enough of us do it, and a huge number at that, then maybe it’ll work. Of course, before you ask, I do believe in Santa Claus. But I’ll vote. I’ll go down screaming, with my stylus in hand, blood on my face, teeth knocked out. But I’m going to vote.
I was looking at some old posts from Sippy’s site (link below), this comment still tickles me.
“So I went to the same desk in the State House where Paul Newman asks for a phone book in The Verdict, except he’s pretending he’s in a hospital, and I’m pretending I’m in a bookstore. The person behind the counter was pretending to be working in both cases. Only a state worker in Massholechusetts can pretend you’re not there, and avoid eye contact entirely, even though they aren’t doing anything and there’s only 24 inches of formica between you. It’s an astonishing talent.”
https://www.sippicancottage.com/2013/11/so-me-and-paul-newman-walk-into-state.html