But there is one line that I want to call out, by way of accelerating its demise from conversations among the smart people. \u00a0It’s this oldie-but-goodie:<\/p>\n
So even today, with the 2nd Amendment in full effect, we don\u2019t have the rights to be \u201carmed as well as our government.\u201d
\nSecondly, what if you were? I could hand you 50 M-16s, give you 1000 illegal bombs, steal you a couple of tanks, and smuggle in some bazookas, and even let you fully train 500 of your closest friends.
\nIf the government wants your shit, they\u2019re going to take it.
\nYou still wouldn\u2019t be a match for even a single battalion of the United States Marine Corps. Not to mention the Air Force, Army, Navy, National Guard, Secret Service, FBI, CIA, and Seals.
\nSo stop acting like your little AR-15 is going to stop tyranny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This makes perfect sense, Mr. “Smalley”, since as we know the military – especially the “combat arms” people – infantry, armor, artillery, combat engineers and cavalry,, as well as special forces – are drawn from families with two parents who have masters degrees in poli sci from Oberlin, work for social justice non-profits, shop at Whole Foods, drive Subarus, listen to NPR and practice vegan lifestyles.<\/p>\n
Right?<\/p>\n
Wrong.<\/p>\n
The families – fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, cousins – of those soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, and generally by extension those troops themselves – are drawn from\u00a0<\/em>the caste of our society that owns guns, for ideological as much as practical reasons.<\/p>\nIt’s culturally almost impossible to separate the “gun culture” and our military. \u00a0<\/em>:<\/p>\nYour little cultural genocide tale \u00a0only exists in lefty fantasy.<\/p>\n
That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To: \u00a0“David Smalley” From: \u00a0Mitch Berg, irascible peasant Re: \u00a0Your article on, ahem, “Patheos”. Mr. Smalley, I”m not going to bother dispensing with the bulk of your “seminar caller”-stule, utterly and intensely illogical assault on “gun culture”. But there is one line that I want to call out, by way of accelerating its demise from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,79,22],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-63951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-slander-files","category-victim-disarmament","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63963,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63951\/revisions\/63963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}