Sipsey Street Irregulars: Chris Chritie shouts down a critic of his firearm rights record.

Monday, July 27, 2015

Chris Chritie shouts down a critic of his firearm rights record.

‘I’m Still Waiting for One Fact, One Fact from You About Me Being Anti-Gun’ — Christie Faces Off With Pro-Gun Voter in Iowa

And here's Herschel Smith's take: Good Lord! Are we really going to have to listen to this loud mouth for the next year? Chris, you are gun control collectivist from way back, and you made your fame in New Jersey pushing an “assault weapons” ban. As for Mr. Fletcher, I do indeed want you to make your decision quickly rather than be cowardly about it. And it should be to destroy all of the paperwork you ever had on him and tell your LEOs to stop arresting people who come across state lines with weapons, right after you pass a reciprocity law recognizing the permitting system of every other state in the country. The fact that you won’t do that tells us everything we need to know about you. The fact that you think we don’t want you to make your mind up about it should tell you something about yourself. You have lived in collectivist-land for so long you don’t have even the slightest understanding of what the rest of us believe.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: OK....

So of the most anti-gun states in the union, California is a pro-gun state swamped by a few anti-gun cities. Ditto for Illinois swamped by Chicago and its bedroom suburbs, and New York state by NYC. On could certainly find pro-gun politicians holding office in the pro gun sections of those states.

On the other hand, New Jersey is pretty much anti gun from top to bottom. Just as fish don't really know much about the quality of the water they swim in, Christie doesn't even see the anti gun culture he is part of and has been elected twice to lead. I hate the term RINO, because it assumes that all Republicans are or should be conservatives. But Governor Christie certainly fits the popular definition. It will truly be a cold day in hell before he gets this gun owner's vote.

Stay home, Governor! You don't understand how different the rest of the country is from New Jersey. We're not just like people from Camden or Newark minus the accent.; July 27, 2015 at 7:19 AM
Anonymous said...: Whatever fatbody, still not voting for you.; July 27, 2015 at 11:35 AM
Bad Cyborg said...: Herschel wrote:
"Good Lord! Are we really going to have to listen to this loud mouth for the next year?"

To which I responded:
Unfortunately I expect we will, H. He is precisely what we have a "mute" and channel change buttons on our remotes for. Just be glad you don't have to be down wind of him.; July 27, 2015 at 6:54 PM
Anonymous said...: hey don't call him fat ! He's super-fat !; July 27, 2015 at 10:30 PM

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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.

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