Sipsey Street Irregulars: The Law of Unintended Consequences kicks in, again.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The Law of Unintended Consequences kicks in, again.

The Denver Post reports it here and John Ransom comments upon it here: firearm sales are way up in Colorado following the "Movie Victim Disarmament Zone Massacre." Well there's a big surprise. I imagine this will show nationally as well. Thank you Mike Bloomberg! Really.

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Trinity said...: Surely Hell is freezing over.

I live in Aurora, CO in a typical middle class neighborhood. Over the years I've taken many neighbors to the gun range and helped them learn the basics of handling a gun safely and effectively. But, as with most urban neighborhoods we have a wide mixture of political philosophies interspersed among us. As a result we have many anti gun progressives always preaching to us about how evil guns are at the root cause of all of society's woes.

Now as to why Hell is most likely freezing over, I've had three of the more outspoken progressive anti gun mutts come to me over the weekend and announce that they were buying personal guns for protection and wanted some help in learning how to use them.

Now if I can just get them to stop voting for and supporting left wing Marxists in government...; July 25, 2012 at 12:52 PM
Anonymous said...: Good luck; July 25, 2012 at 3:44 PM
Torque said...: Trinity,

Fill them in on the substantial taxes on firearms and ammunition first. Then lead them through the additional costs of losing the freedom to own ("not to be infringed" type of conversation piece) and use said firearm at what ought to be very local shooting ranges of indoor and outdoor type. As well as this vid may help in the introduction of changing of minds/lifestyles; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CmkbShVqNA (Part 1 of Anita Moncrief's speech at Americans For Prosperity Foundation's Suite Tea Breakfast with Andrew Breitbart in Orlando, Florida, September 23, 2011.)
This is a first hand account from a lady that had grown from youthful ideals to the real world inside Acorn. With her talking about the risks and threats she received from "her own kind" in the liberal world. Perhaps this may help move them along.

Cheers,

Torque; July 25, 2012 at 5:41 PM
Maddawg308 said...: In Virginia, it's one gun a month. So, you must buy one gun a month - it's the law!; July 26, 2012 at 9:52 AM

"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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