Didn’t Your Momma Give You Enough Attention?
By Mitch Berg
The Obama Administration and the left – at least, the mewling, white, upper-middle-class version of the Left – thinks it’s in a position to start re-instating gun control.
And they’re doing it the same way they started doing it 40 years ago; with a concentrated, coordinated, considered slander of all law-abiding gun owners. Fast and Furious tipped the Administration’s hand; they want to undercut the “law-abiding” stock of the most law-abiding people in the United States – the legal gun owner,
You’re starting to see it in the media and in the leftyblogs that re-package BIg Left’s message for further regurgitation; the way the media tried to turn the Martin/Zimmerman case into a commentary on gun owners (to say nothing of the “Stand your Ground” law, which it – let’s repeat this – was not).
So it’s time for all of us who support the human right of self-defense – no less important than speech, religion, press or assembly – to do something that many of us figured we wouldn’t have to do anymore; get up, get organized, and start voting for gun rights again.
Don’t take it from me. Take it from Gunnery Sergeant Hartman.
May 11th, 2012 at 10:25 am
Not to mention the fact that there is a bill in the US House to cut off federal funds to any state that has stand your ground laws. Further, the UN Small Arms Treaty is gaining traction. Read up on them and let your elected officials know that you want them to vote against them.
May 11th, 2012 at 1:35 pm
One would hope that an enterprising journalist or editor would do a story on why Black leaders think that “Stand Your Ground” laws are a civil rights issue.
This story comes close to the truth:
http://www.gpb.org/news/2012/05/07/georgias-stand-your-ground-law
In it, an opponent of stand your ground gives a civil rights reason for opposing stand your ground:
“Fear, is oftentimes, based on ones own bias, so when you have public policy that, literally lends itself to people being able to commit crimes or shootings under the color of law, because they’re reasonably afraid, it makes a bad public policy and puts the constitutional rights of so many people around the country in jeopardy.”
The quote doesn’t really make sense — are the hypothetical shooters reasonably or unreasonably afraid? — but you can see the seed of an argument.