Sipsey Street Irregulars: David Codrea: "Lott’s Response to Demographic Impact on 2nd Amendment Silent on Immigration.'

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

David Codrea: "Lott’s Response to Demographic Impact on 2nd Amendment Silent on Immigration.'

"(W)hile Winkler’s conclusion (that NRA needs to get even squishier) reflects academic wishful thinking insulated from 'We Will Not Comply' enforcement realities, the demographic threat he identifies that will enable legislative and judicial evisceration of government-recognized gun rights has been completely ignored in Lott’s rebuttal. Lott does not address growing anti-gun populations, particularly as reflected by Hispanics and Asians, who poll overwhelmingly (up to 80%) anti-gun and Democrat. Completely unmentioned are the effects tens of millions of legal immigrants and illegal immigrants given amnesty will have in conjunction with the 'pathway to citizenship' being mapped out by vote-seeking Democrats and cheap labor Republicans. In truth, by stating a reality the establishment would rather we not notice, Winkler has given us an unintended gift. Rather than rejecting his thesis outright, we ought to seize on it and use it to defend against the biggest threat facing gun owners: Politically-motivated policies encouraging massive immigration leading to citizenship."

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Chiu ChunLing said...: At the end of the day, the NRA is 'demographically doomed' only because it can no longer effectively fool anyone that cares about the single issue it ostensibly exists to address. Hispanics and Asians have nothing to do with it.

There is only one thing that matters in gun-control. Who is physically, mentally, and emotionally prepared to control their guns by pulling the trigger when anyone else tries to take them away.

If you don't have a gun ready to fire, then you aren't physically prepared. If you don't have a clear theoretical understanding of when pulling the trigger is necessary to retain control of your gun, then you aren't mentally prepared.

And if you are unwilling to kill police should they attempt to take away your ability to defend yourself, you aren't emotionally prepared.

I stand ready. Ever more so as events progress towards the decisive moment.; October 27, 2015 at 4:31 AM
Anonymous said...: Chiu,
You make one error worth pointing out.
Cops don't come try to confiscate firearms. Criminals attempt to steal them from you and conspire to violate your rights.

There is a profound difference between those who honor their oaths and those who don't. It is proper to discriminate between the two.; October 27, 2015 at 7:26 AM
Anonymous said...: And you, Anon at 7:26, make the error that any cop who has "enforced" a drug law is actually upholding his oath.

The fact is: either YOU own your body or the STATE does.

If a cop is "just following orders" when he confiscates your gun, then he's "just following orders" when he arrests you for putting a substance in your body that the government doesn't approve of.

"Oh, but one is a constitutionally protected right!", you'll say.....

How does that comport with the fact that there is no liberty whatsoever without control over one's own body?

Signed,

Someone who has never and will never do illicit drugs, regardless of whether or not the state deems such use legal.; October 27, 2015 at 11:21 AM
Chew Choad Long said...: Yessiree, it has nothing to do with 10s of millions of new Democrat voters, it's all about the NRA losing trust & I don't have to do anything but tell people in blog comments I stand ready & prepared which is tons easier than actually doing anything. WOOVERINES!; October 27, 2015 at 6:51 PM
Chiu ChunLing said...: Honestly, actually doing something wasn't that much harder than posting on blogs.

It did hurt a hell of a lot more...in fact I'm still maimed as a result and it still hurts quite a bit. Just not as badly. Or the nerve damage has kicked in...ah, nerve damage, how would we live without you?; October 28, 2015 at 2:55 AM
Anonymous said...: John Lott/Mary Rosh has been debunked numerous times. His research is crap. Why is he still relevant?; October 28, 2015 at 10:15 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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