This year’s battle to destroy the Second Amendment is dead – at least in DC.
I’ve said it for years; the gun control debate is the most ironic battle in American politics.
The left – the movement that floats on Soros and Rockefeller and Allen and Opperman and Messinger money – loves to paint itself as the party of the working stiff, the fabled “99%”; it likes to pretend the right is white, rich and disconnected from the world. The left, back to its historical roots, is built on the idea of struggle between classes.
And yet gun control is the most class-focused debate in America today. Our elites – of both parties, in some cases – loathe the Second Amendment, or at the very least think it’s a quaint doddering relic. It’s the American mainstreet – the real 99% -that supports the Second Amendment.
The plebeians just keep defying those patricians.
Reason notes this as well:
Whatever the merits and popularity of the specific measures that went down to defeat in the Senate on Wednesday, I think the Establishment fails to appreciate the depth of American support for the Second Amendment. NPR and other media have lately noted a growing libertarian trend in American politics. That’s not just about taxes, Obamacare, marijuana, and marriage equality. It also involves gun rights. After each high-profile shooting, support for gun control rises. But it tends to fall again in short order, as public opinion reverts to the baseline of strong support for gun rights.
And the fact that controlling guns is only a vital issue to 4% of the people indicates that the vast majority know the score; guns don’t kill people, people do.
I’m going to add emphasis below:
I was struck by this poll graphic in the Washington Post on Wednesday. Despite the virtually unanimous support for stricter gun control in the national media, along with other opinion shapers such as Hollywood and the universities, and despite the mass shootings that have received so much attention in our modern world of 24-hour news channels, Americans are becoming more convinced that guns make your family safer.
The media in particular exhibits a persistent form of Pauline Kael syndrome on the subject of guns; they accept gun control as an ideal almost completely without question, and seem nonplussed that the nation ignores them.
But yet they continue their narrative – that the NRA is a astroturf checkbook advocacy group supported by Big Gun and Big Business. Yesterday, some in the media breathlessly reported the departure of Adolphus Bush from the NRA board as a “blow to the NRA”.
It’s not. The group’s membership is up nearly a quarter since Newtown. It’s just shown the entire country that it can shut the media down on Capitol Hill. It’s just shown it commands more of the hearts and minds of this country’s real people than the President does, at least on the gun issue.
But that’s not the narrative, now, is it?
I don’t know, Mitch. The fact that oberfuhrer Harry Reid voted against the bill, scares me in that he can now re-introduce the bill as soon as he feels he has enough votes. I think that we need to stay vigilant.
Boss,
Of course we do. We can never let down our guard.
But let’s call a spade a spade; this is a war between the patricians and the plebeians. And the plebeians just scored a solid shot to the jaw at the end of the eighth round.
Round nine coming up.
I wonder if there are any people in Watertown who are right now rethinking whether they should keep at least one weapon around the house.
Boss, He or any Senator is always free to introduce a new bill with the same language as an old, defeated bill. They just have to restart the procedural process, which many times the majority can short circuit anyways.
And remember they had enough votes in the Senate to pass the bill, they just didn’t have enough votes to break the filibuster. From Obama’s comments it sounds as if he is in favor of the “Nuclear Option”.
Constitution hating, Anti-Americans like to say that an Armed citizen is no match in a confrontation with an organized army.
Tell that to the two Muslim Terrorists one Muslim Terrorist that just shut Boston down tighter than Kelsey’s nuts. He’s facing off an army of considerable size by himself right now.
should have been a strike through
Adolphus was not on the board (which a “real reporter” could have checked out here: http://nra.org/board/ ) so the story is now “an uninformed, fourth generation swill vendor now thinks the NRA is bad”. I wonder if they’ll ever recover from that blow. 😉
Yesterday, Pro-Obama NPR (de radio del estado) had on the Governor of Connecticut. He said (I’m paraphrasing) that he wonders what the Senators that voted against this bill will say when there is a massacre in their state. Wasn’t qualified with a ‘God-forbid’ or a ‘hope this doesn’t happen, but’ – he just laid the idea that he hopes for a massacre right out there. And of course no pushback from the Federal Bureau of Narrative Coordination Agent. When he was asked his reaction to the gun manufacturers leaving or threatening to leave his state, he claimed the NRA is nothing but a front for people like Colt, Storm Ruger et al – so apparently ‘workers’ who manufacture firearms (highly skilled machinists who I’m sure are pulling down 6-figures) aren’t wanted in CT. The only manufacturers they want make dream catchers and wind chimes.
This article raises a couple thoughts.
First, the NRA is an organization dedicated to the promotion of shooting sports, firearms proficiency, and firearms education. It would be interesting to see when they actually became a more political entity. Their doing so was in response to attacks on their primary mission; shooting sports, etc.. If firearms rights were not under attack, the NRA would still continue as a group dedicated to its primary mission. Additionally, the NRA is the largest civillian provider of high quality law enforcement firearms training which it provides virtually at cost. They’e political out of necessity, not by choice.
Mr. Busch is not unlike many patriachal beneficiaries of established businesses or trust funds. Armed peasants make them uncomfortable. Not unlike Rupert Murdoch, the reptile Bloomberg, Gov. Messinger, etc.. Once they’ve made themselves financially comfortable, they no longer need to tolerate the peasants’ needs. I hope to find out which products Busch sponsors so I can return the favor.
I wonder how many Bostonians (and those nearby) who are cowering in their locked hovels, praying the neighbor gets killed and that they don’t, have the fleeting taboo thought about how having a firearm might be nice right now?
Granted, I might not be in a hurry to go out and about in the Boston area either. However, Gov. Patrick’s officel pronouncement to hide has a very weak, creepy tone. It saddens me, but I don’t doubt that the at-large murderer feels quite powerful when he hears it.
Question: How many rounds should you have in your magazine when confronted by a Chechen terrorist in your kitchen?
Mitch/Loren;
Yea, we should revel in our victories and chuckle at the fact that the narcissist in chief got bitch slapped!
Joe, the NRA was very apolitical until the 1968 GCA (itself passed in response to the MLK riots, making the GCA a racist response to political disenfranchisement, but we won’t go there). The NRA establishment of 1968 actually supported gun control and that led to a revolt by NRA members culminating in The Cincinnati Revolution in 1977 that threw out the old guard and made 2nd Amendment rights more of a concern than duck hunting. In effect, the Cincinnati Revolution was a revolt against the East Coast patricians that ran the NRA by the rest of the country.
“The plebeians just scored a solid shot to the jaw at the end of the eighth round.”
I did enjoy the look Barry had on his face during his Rose Garden speech, his true colors came shining through there.
“Question: How many rounds should you have in your magazine when confronted by a Chechen terrorist in your kitchen?”
You should be free to have as many as you desire. But at lease three; two for the throrax, and one for the head.