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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Dogs and ponies seem uninspired.

Senators tread cautiously at gun hearing

Neither side seemed like it was playing to win. For Republicans, especially, this was a hearing to survive. No YouTube moments or arguments with Mark Kelly, Giffords’s husband. For Democrats, this was about avoiding unforced errors and not doing anything that would stall whatever momentum there is for action on gun control.

LATER: The Dead Elephants are already running: Gun control: inklings of a compromise in the Great Gun Debate

4 comments:

LJ said...: Proposed question for Captain Mark Kelly, USN retired (Congresswoman Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords Husband)-

"Sir I in no way mean disrespect to your wife or yourself in what has obviously a violent and horrific event. I sincerely pray for Mrs. Gifford's continued full recovery.

That being said, and as you are a highly decorated Naval aviator with combat experience, I sincerely feel led to ask you the following question:

At what point in your career as a U.S. Navy officer were you able to compromise on the very specific oath you swore to, including and specifically mentioning, the unalienable right to armed self defense? A right that is without question affirmed to, (NOT GRANTED) by the very document you pledged to defend ?"; January 31, 2013 at 10:16 AM
Charles N. Steele said...: I read the CS Monitor piece twice, and can't see the evidence of the sellout.

I suggest that what we are seeing could potentially for the gun grabbers' what Bulge was for the Nazis, should those of of us who oppose them work it right. They have awakened their opposition and if they fail to get anything passed at the federal level quickly, they are in trouble.

RKBA advocates need to increase the political pressure; try to increase the backbone of GOP and Dems who aren't wedded to gun control, all the while continuing to prepare for the worst should this fail. But it's premature to say that gun control is a done deal. It's not.; January 31, 2013 at 12:09 PM
Liberty or Death said...: That's OK, they can compromise. I will NOT and I will fight all enemies, foreign and domestic with the same fervor and commitment our Forefathers had.; January 31, 2013 at 2:17 PM
Longbow said...: They believe they can get a "universal background check" bill passed. This would force every citizen to beg permission from the FBI before he trades a piece of private property with his neighbor. What would our grandfathers think of us submitting to such a thing?

Never mind the fact that Congress has no Constitutional authority to enact such a law. Those who think it a good idea, and good public policy don't care a bit about the Constitution. They would make free men felons. It is that simple.; February 1, 2013 at 9:09 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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