**From Great Debates:
10/27/08 Should we prevent children from killing themselves? [8 y.o. w/Uzi incident question]
11/04/08 Should all Firearms be banned?
11/05/08 Guns are not designed to kill people
11/05/08 Gun hobbyists: How worried are you post election? (me, not much)
11/12/08 Americans and their guns.
11/14/08 Respond to this Anti-Obama Gun Freak
11/24/08 Ya know, I coulda swore that this one started in The Pit. -ExT.
Pistol-packing soccer mom’s loss of carry permit causes her vagina to close up
12/3/08 Ammunition Accountability Act
From The Pit:
11/01/08 Waste of Ammunition
11/05/08 Just in case you thought all the bad gun stories came out of the US…
11/08/08 This is not a gun control thread.
11/30/08 Guns as “protection”. (From the Government)
I haven’t counted or anything, but it seems to me that these alone (turned up from a 30-day search of GD and The Pit) are more than we’ve had in any given 30 day period in the last two years (last spring came kinda close).
Why do I keep hearing the matra, “Obama’s not coming for your guns?” Do you think that if you repeat it often enough people will believe it?
The crying shame of it is that you are correct. Plenty of Fudds will throw everyone else under the bus.
Heller spelled it out: We Have The Right.
They seem to be responding, “Yes, you have the right. Now, we’re going to do our level best to insure that you can only practice your right on the 29th of February, if the moon is full, you are licensed, your gun is registered, you have paid the Daniel P. Moynihan Memorial 10,000% Ammunition Accountability Tax, and then, only if we feel like it.”
It’s not the number of threads, it’s the, well, density of the threads, and quite frankly, their tone, that concerns me. I’ve been around long enough to have participated in some very rancorous GCDs; between myself and others (many have passed on from here to boards more conducive to their views) we’ve fought an uphill battle for 10 years to stamp out the blatant ignorance about firearms, the 2nd Amendment, crime, what have you.
And in the past 30 days, I have seen more ad hominem, vitriol, and just plain fucking ignorance (sadly, from otherwise intelligent, amiable posters) about guns, and gun owners, than I’ve seen on this message board in a very long time.
You call us “paranoid gun nuts,” and expect us to buy your line of bullshit about our President-Elect, a man who hasn’t hesitated a nanosecond before voting “Hell, Yes!” to any piece of gun control legislation put before him…
…and then turn around and launch more gun control threads in a 30 day period than I’ve seen in any other in 10 fucking years?!
Yeah. You’re really convincing people not to worry one least little bit about the intentions of President-Elect Obama, and a Democratically controlled Congress.
But I don’t want you to stop; oh no! Far from it.
BRING IT ON
Start a thread a day, for the next 4 years. Two, even.
Trot out every tired, hackneyed argument you can think of. Trot out Kellerman and “43 times!” Again.
Rehash the tired old argument that no one ever really uses guns in self defense.
Restate again and again about how “self defense” is only the juvenille fantasies of dickless men, and women who wish they were men, stroking their substitute phalli.
Trumpet the “11 children a day!” war cry from the rooftops.
Roll out more and more research from The Brady Institute, even as you pour scorn, and derision, upon other pro-gun studies, you bastions of impartial and enlightened reasoning!
Assemble your hordes by the millions* and march on Washington, spewing your lies, your filth, your empty rhetoric on broadcast television.
*some settling may occur in shipping
Fall upon and devour anyone who breaks ranks! (Sorry Dinsdale. Do you want a last cigarette? A blindfold?)
Insinuate with every breath you take, every word that you commit to print and internet, that we’re racists, homophobes, anti-semites, Nazis, Brownshirts-In-Waiting, The Hordes-of-Godly-Righteousness, marching across the land with the Bible in one hand and our guns in the other, smiting the queers and the coons and the Red and the Jews*.
*Thanks, Roger.
And do you know why I want you to do this?
Us gun owners, and pro-2 Ad. types, we’ve had it pretty easy the last 8 years. Too easy.
At the height of the Assault Weapons Ban, the NRA boasted 4 million+ active members. People who wrote letters to the legislators, and governors. People who marched, and wore pro-2 Ad. shirts and hats, pins and button, with pride.
We whupped AARP’s ass right outta the “top lobbyist” spot even as the Baby Boom of The Greatest Generation reached its semicentennial.
Today? I doubt the NRA could rally 2 million. We’ve become lax in our vigilance; victims of our own successes.
And now that our attention is down, the jackals again begin stalking the perimeter.
So go ahead, and start some more gun control threads.
The NRA could use a kick-in-the-ass, and some fresh blood. As soon as more people again see what you people are really all about, see what your President-Elect really has in store as soon as he feels it’s safe to dip his toe in the water, the sooner it will stop.
Again.
And when it comes around, again, I’ll be right back here. Waiting, with a smile on my face.
Blink, motherfucker.
I dare ya.
