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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Here they come again.

Manchin, Toomey both interested in reviving gun control push

LATER: But we have this from Charles Cooke -- Don’t Blame the Second Amendment

But, for all their admonitions, it will remain a fact that nobody in a black robe or a powdered wig is instructing the American public to buy record numbers of guns, to apply for millions of concealed-carry permits, to demand the liberalization of their state laws, to take up shooting for the first time, or to tell pollsters that they side with the Second Amendment rather than with the sort of restrictive legislation that we see abroad. For better or for worse, the lion’s share of the pro–Second Amendment energy that has marked the last 25 years has come not from the judge’s gavel but from political shifts at the local and national levels. The quandary that the reformers face can be summed up simply: Were we the sort of culture that would be willing to repeal the Second Amendment, we would be the sort of culture that would not need to do so.

5 comments:

PO'd American said...: “Is that asking too much? Couldn’t we at least do this little thing to stop people who are mentally ill, people who are criminals from purchasing guns?” Reid said on the Senate floor.

Gee Harry, the least you could do is pass legislation preventing anyone in Congress from buying or owning a gun; after all, your collective group are the poster children for the "mentally ill."

Time to drag out all of the Sandy Hook family members again and parade them around DC for another photo op.; June 24, 2015 at 6:43 AM
Anonymous said...: "You don't need to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate" -- Mark Pryor, movie star and U S Senator.; June 24, 2015 at 9:01 AM
Uncle Elmo said...: Will these two be meeting on Joe Manchin's yacht again to iron out the details, like they did the last time?; June 24, 2015 at 1:23 PM
Anonymous said...: I find it curious, Mike V, that you haven't chimed in on Puerto Rico.
The SAF willingly bowed and conceded to the "obvious" power of government to command and wield the permission slip structure, both granting and denying, regarding the Second Amendment. Yet in Puerto Rico, the SAF champions the destruction of that very thing, the permission slip structure.

the SAFs own pleadings, filings, and statements are in conflict with each other, indeed so much so as to constitute being at war with one another. It occurs to me that such a situation would present a target-rich environment for a wordsmith of your astute capabilities....; June 24, 2015 at 2:55 PM
Rivitman said...: Quick. Call Alan Gottleib. Feh.; June 24, 2015 at 3:09 PM

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"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.

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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.

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Here they come again.

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