Sipsey Street Irregulars: Quote of the month (perhaps the year): Adopting the "Never-Sell-A-Gun" Philosophy in a "Tinkerbelle Economy."

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Quote of the month (perhaps the year): Adopting the "Never-Sell-A-Gun" Philosophy in a "Tinkerbelle Economy."

Ranger Rick sends this marvelous quote --

From View from the Porch:

Jim at The Travis McGee Reader is discussing going to a gun show loophole this weekend and closes with this piece of condensed awesome:

When the world was a better place, I'd always toss in a few pieces I was tired of for trading stock. No more. I and most of my comrades have adopted the never-sell-a-gun philosophy. We keep them all on grounds that the Messers Bernanke and Geithner can't press a computer key and create 60 billion Colts and Winchesters out of thin air.

Win!

4 comments:

Scott J said...: My sickness is such I tend to develop an emotional attachment.

Case in point: My NAA Guardian .380.

The Taurus TCP was recently introduced and is a better design but I cannot bring myself to sell the Guardian. I have carried it so much and know it so well.; December 4, 2010 at 9:51 AM
Tam said...: Not that it really matters one way or the other, but if you're going to quote someone else's post in its entirety, netiquette would indicate a link. FWIW...; December 4, 2010 at 10:53 AM
pdxr13 said...: There are limits to the quantity of firearms that I can "reasonably" take care of in present circumstances.

When the extra bedroom has been fortified as an "almost-safe room" and rifle racks installed at ankle and shoulder height are completely full.

When I have enough firearms to equip every adult I consider trustworthy with a bolt action, semi-auto, .22 rifle, 12 ga pump, a centerfire pistol and a flare gun as well as harnesses/holsters/ammunition/cleaning kit.

Selling a few extra pieces to simplify the collection to the most standard types of ammunition, or to semi-standardize on an MBR so that magazines are common among fishing buddies is a decent reason to sell valuable collectable items. Trade-not-sell might be more acceptable. Trading with an objective is important.

Maintaining diversification in investments is a good way to minimize overall risk. Gold, silver, steel, copper, lead, polymers, tax stamps, can all be good investments. Please consult a financial professional as well as a reputable weapon and PM dealer before investing.

Cheers. verification word: "oiledupe"; December 4, 2010 at 11:42 AM
Anonymous said...: Durable goods first (guns, clothing, food, water, etc).
Gold & silver second.
Gov't & fiat (stocks, bonds) paper investments last.

B Woodman
III-per; December 4, 2010 at 1:02 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Quote of the month (perhaps the year): Adopting the "Never-Sell-A-Gun" Philosophy in a "Tinkerbelle Economy."

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