This Is What Slippery Slope Looks Like
By Mitch Berg
Every rifle club member in the UK is now on a terror watch list.
Security services have quietly acquired the details of every single person in the UK with access to firearms and put them on a database with known terrorists, it has emerged.
Hidden away in the middle of the government’s draft Investigatory Powers Bill, a snooper’s charter designed to legalise mass surveillance of innocent law-abiding British residents, was a startling admission dressed up as a case study
The lesson?
Never, ever compromise with the left on the Second Amendment. You may as well compromise with a snake.
March 28th, 2016 at 8:24 am
Can’t happen here. Nosirrebob. Our goobernment would never allow it. Just point this to a libturd and watch their heads explode.
March 28th, 2016 at 8:33 am
As was the case with Australia’s confiscation of guns: first you have to get the law abiding to tell you where they are.
All the more reason I’m glad the Senate GOP laid down a marker before Garland was nominated. I doubt they would have had the backbone to resist him if Obama had nominated him right away.
March 28th, 2016 at 8:41 am
This is what passes for intelligent, moderate commentary on Second Amendment issues within the chattering classes: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/d0cea3d0-eaab-11e5-bb79-2303682345c8.html
Guns — no matter who has them — are always seeking an opportunity to go off. Anybody who says different is a fool or a liar or both.
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About guns, the real truth’s even harder to sort out. The NRA argues it’s best to arm everybody, including infants, because Americans are always in jeopardy of having our rights and weapons taken away, Charles II-style, so we need guns to defend ourselves — a cause proclaimed and proclaimed and proclaimed with the force of moral self-evidence. The idealised rationale for this argument would seem to be that in a humane world there’d be no need for firearms at all. Only ours isn’t that way so we need to have plenty of firepower to force people to be nice — Donald Trump’s favourite word.
The person who wrote this, Richard Ford, considers himself an intellectual. The hatred he expresses for his fellow Americans is frightening.
March 28th, 2016 at 9:56 am
The hatred he expresses for his fellow Americans is frightening.
Maybe so, but it’s completely understandable. Our country has grown too large to sustain itself, I think. We have people that have absolutely nothing in common sharing the title of “American”. Some American’s have gone so far astray, they dream of America’s defeat and subjugation, because hey, totally we deserve it, right?
Even some single states have grown too large. Northern Californians look down their noses with utter contempt at their Southern brethren, and vise versa. And for the most part (although it’s changing), it’s not even political, it’s envy.
We really need to start thinking about splitting the sheets, for our own good. I’m not talking abut another civil war; that’s not gonna help anyone. But a nice, reasoned parting on good terms. We could still trade and travel among one another, and I think the sure knowledge that you had “home” to go to would make the trading and traveling more amicable for everyone.
The courts have found that when corporations become too large, they create monopolies that are not healthy; they prey on the smaller companies and the public at large. I see the same logic applies to federation of states.
March 28th, 2016 at 10:18 am
Swiftee, all we need is a Supreme Court willing to give teeth to the 10th Amendment and reign in the Federal government to something more manageable. Not that that will ever happen, because the same Federal government expansionist types select who is on the Court, but it’s a nice hope.
March 28th, 2016 at 10:30 am
Well, you’re right Nerd. But as you point out, the SCOTUS is evenly divided between American’s and Bizarro American’s. We’ve allowed the 10th to be pulled so far out of shape I don’t think it could ever be returned to it’s smaller, more appealing shape in the absence of a complete sanitizing of all leftists off the court. Not likely.
Splitting up would allow American’s to restore the Constitution to it’s former glory, and the Bizarro American’s could put their version on the Etch-A-Sketch of their dreams.
March 28th, 2016 at 10:32 am
Ugh. I’ve really upset the apostrophe lords, haven’t I?
March 28th, 2016 at 10:35 am
After telling us that people are crazy for believing that ” . . . Americans are always in jeopardy of having our rights and weapons taken away, Charles II-style, so we need guns to defend ourselves — a cause proclaimed and proclaimed and proclaimed with the force of moral self-evidence. “, Ford writesL
If guns were banned in the US, I’d give mine up and worry about outlaws on a case-by-case basis. When some crazy fool walks into a public school and shoots down a bunch of innocent children, how I feel is trapped in my own country, like a man going down on a torpedoed ship. But when I try to think about what I can personally do to put a stop to this lunacy, my first thought is to take a pistol and shoot whoever’s responsible for making such travesties acceptable. Show them the terrible error of their ways in terrible terms they will understand. I probably won’t do that. But I think you can see our problem now.
This is lunacy. It is violent lunacy. I mean the guy in certifiable. This should have been rejected by the editors as quickly as it would have been of the Ford had urged Americans to arm themselves and shoot anyone with a foreign accent.
Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize novelist and Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University in New York City
March 28th, 2016 at 11:04 am
As his deranged article illustrates, just because you are a professor at an Ivy League school, doesn’t mean you’re smart.
March 28th, 2016 at 11:10 am
swiftee;
I might add that many of the states surrounding Commifornia like refugees from there, either.
I was in Denver earlier this month and was surprised to see a number of bumper stickers telling them as much.
There was also a news story a couple of months ago that showed for sale signs on homes for sale in WA that said “No California Buyers”. Surprising, given the fact that WA is one of the “tolerant” libidiot states.
March 28th, 2016 at 11:15 am
Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize novelist and Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University in New York City
And that’s another thing. Many Americans, myself included, object to having to send our kids to the god damned house of mirrors Bizarro Americans have set up for themselves in our finest institutions of higher learning.
You’re right Bento, Ford is a raving, hate filled lunatic. He’s exactly the sort of Bizarro American that would benefit greatly from a split…and we wouldn’t have to worry about him shooting us in the face.
March 28th, 2016 at 11:28 am
Yeah boss, San Francisco doesn’t have much on Denver or Seattle when it comes to lefty lunatics, it’s more of the envy I referred to.
The Cali moonbats sell their circa 1965 ranch homes for $750k, pick up their public employee pensions and haul it all into Oregon, Washington and to a lesser extent, Arizona. The native born moonbats hate them for their wealth; they see themselves as superior beings…you know the routine. But when it comes time to undermine the country as a whole, they are a monolith.
March 28th, 2016 at 2:58 pm
I see the RNC won’t allow delegates to carry guns into the National Convention.
Demonstrating what they REALLY think about guns.
March 28th, 2016 at 3:09 pm
Ford may be a lunatic, but by his own testimony, he’s not lunatic enough to go unarmed while living in Gotham. He noted he owns guns. Freedom for me, but not for thee–that’s his mantra.
March 28th, 2016 at 3:28 pm
Bikebubba, he said he no longer carried. He would actually rather that his wife be robbed, assaulted and/or raped rather than that she be associated with people who carry guns. Really.
March 28th, 2016 at 4:51 pm
Bento, divine justice cries out for Mr. Ford to be the one on the receiving end of the raping and robbery. As far as we know his wife is an innocent bystander.
March 28th, 2016 at 5:11 pm
The Ford piece was the most anti-gun essay I have read in a long, long time. This is how the FT subtitled it:
He wants saner gun laws — but used to carry a pistol. The novelist on his complex relationship with guns
His relationship is not ‘complex.’ He wants guns banned, all of them. And then he talks about shooting people. He is a fucking nutcase and he needs help.
March 28th, 2016 at 5:18 pm
DMA, that’s a touch off topic, don’t you think? Plus, no matter what the GOP hierarchy actually thinks about the matter, the real reason they’re refusing to allow carry is because the Secret Service insists on it for the safety of those they’re protecting.
March 28th, 2016 at 8:07 pm
Right, cause getting rid guns makes everyone safer, I guess. No compromises, indeed.
March 29th, 2016 at 11:12 pm
this is a nice development:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/29/man-creates-smartphone-shaped-gun-for-ideal-conceal/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social