Good News: Obama's Election Spurs New Appreciation For Constitution
Especially the Second Amendment:
These scenes are being repeated all across the country. As severe the rush is now, it would be even worse if more Americans knew of Obama's attempt to corrupt Constitutional scholarship while at the anti-gun Joyce Foundation. Barack Obama is a gun-banner at heart, and there is every reason for Americans to doubt his campaign's more moderate rhetoric when compared to his actual record. Buy guns, America. It's good for the economy, good for the development of our nation's moral character, and our last bulwark against tyranny. While you're at it, consider hitting the Paypal link in the sidebar to the right as a belated blogoversary present. What, you think that SLR 106FR is going to buy itself?
John Faulkner and his wife, Brenda, thought Wednesday was a good day to buy a handgun. "I'm 37 years old, and this is the first time in my life that I am really scared for our future," said Faulkner, an oil field worker, as he perused the collection of weaponry in A Pawn Shop here. At Aurora's Firing Line gun shop, Steve Wickham was also purchasing. "Anything I can get my hands on," he said as he cradled a $699 9mm handgun. Same thing in Lakewood: "I was selling guns before I even opened the door," said George Horne, owner of The Gun Room. "It's gone completely mad. Everyone is buying everything I've got on the shelves. Sales have been crazy."
By midday Wednesday, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's "Insta- Check" background check — required for the sale of a firearm and typically about 8 minutes long — was jammed with waits lasting more than two hours. Gun-shop owners and buyers said the urgency was fueled by Barack Obama's presidential win and Democrats' increasing their majority in Congress. "I'm here because of Obama," Wickham said. "I think he's misinterpreted the Second Amendment. It's not about the right to hunt. It's about the right to defend yourself."
Posted by: Confederate Yankee at 11:55 AM
Comments
Posted by: toyboat at November 06, 2008 02:47 PM (cC3Yf)
Posted by: Steve Skubinna at November 06, 2008 03:43 PM (1ii59)
That's must be what the Civilian Defense Force is for.
Posted by: George Bruce at November 06, 2008 04:34 PM (v4XVE)
I guess the wingnut scenario is the definition of "self-righteous suicide."
I tease the wingers, but I really don't get this. If the scenarios I have heard (antichrist, UN takeover, use of US military inside US) really come to pass, no amount of guns or bullets is going to help you. Even small town SWAT uses armored vehicles, an M60 is useless against them. I guess logic just can't penetrate this fantasy.
Posted by: toyboat at November 06, 2008 04:43 PM (cC3Yf)
Posted by: Adriane at November 06, 2008 04:56 PM (wJlIy)
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
That's MILLIONS of your fellow countrymen/women. Even a hypothetically vaunted US/UN government could not and would not act in the way you suggest.
Posted by: Mark at November 06, 2008 05:04 PM (4od5C)
I've always believed in a person's right to own firearms for hunting and/or protection, but it just isn't something I ever wanted to own.
But something about this election (beside the obvious things) has got to me. I wonder if this election has ushered in the beginning of the end of our rights.
I surely hope not, but it could be. And we all need to exercise and value those rights, no matter what happens to them.
Plus, I'm just plain scared. I don't wanna be a fear-monger...but dangit, I'm kinda scared! If push comes to shove...I'd like to know I can defend myself.
~T the D
http://thedrunkelephant.blogspot.com/
Posted by: T the D at November 06, 2008 06:34 PM (Y+dgk)
Others in the colonies, however - less than 10-percent of the population - thought that freedom was more important that mere survival, and armed with little more than the small arms of the day, they began a rebellion against the most powerful and feared military force that the world knew at the time.
Unless our public schools have completely failed you know how that ragtag militia of civilians fared, and that the culture of rebels they established became the greatest force for protecting individual freedom and human rights this world has ever known.
Of course, a more practical explanation may be in order.
toyboat first makes the assumption that the U.S. military would unquestioningly side with the government in a conflict against U.S. civilians. I strongly doubt that this would occur. U.S. Army leaders in training at West Point are taught to be loyal to "duty, honor and country," in that order. That would demand they first protect their fellow citizens against an abusive government, not become part of it.
But nor do I think all military units would abandon a corrupt central government, so let's assume some military units would side with the government, and some would side with the patriots.
If neither side establishes clear military dominance, and economic, demographic, and other factors are roughly equal, then the side that has more popular support and more asymmetrical war-fighting capability typically wins.
How big of an influence could civilian gun owners play?
There are around 3 million members of the U.S. military if you include active duty, guard, and reserve forces. Only a small fraction of these are frontline combat troops. Until someone provides me with a better estimate, I'll guess that there are less than 800,000 trigger-pullers or those that could easily be converted to that role.
If just 40% of the U.S. population owns firearms that is 120 million American gun owners (this is though to be a low estimate). If even a substantial minority of American gun owners - say 2-3 percent - were to actively join a conflict as irregulars, then it would effectively add 2.4 million-3.6 million low-level combatants to the mix and significantly influence a conflict.
Presumably, you can grasp the significance of this?
Posted by: Confederate Yankee at November 06, 2008 06:38 PM (HcgFD)
That's a quotable one. So acording to Liberal logic, if you own a gun then you must be a "wingnut".(his words) No exceptions.
Therefore all the people that are not actually "wingnuts" (which is almost everyone), must relinquish all their weapons?
You might want to recheck your compass. US Forces take an Oath to the Constitution. The last time I checked, mass murder was against the UCMJ. You forgot that. BBZZZZZTTT. You lose. Thanks for playing.
The hope that an Obama Led US/UN troops wiping out the US populace is sure a weird Liberal fantasy. Although you want it to happen, I sure don't.
I know a lot of Liberals, and they haven't voiced this position yet. One Toyboat is just a crazy Liberal. But more will make it a trend.
Posted by: brando at November 06, 2008 07:17 PM (7proa)
I am thinking of scenarios ranging from home defence to retaking a neighborhood from rioting thugs in the absence of effective government intervention (think Rodney King riots...), not shooting at government troops. Not really expecting any of these, but I was a Boy Scout once.
Posted by: Grey Fox at November 06, 2008 07:41 PM (xRy9W)
Posted by: Rich in KC at November 06, 2008 07:56 PM (siQqy)
Posted by: brando at November 06, 2008 08:29 PM (7proa)
Posted by: Big Country at November 06, 2008 09:32 PM (hKGWC)
Posted by: Tonto (USA) at November 06, 2008 10:15 PM (Qv1xF)
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=115273513
Posted by: W-K-B at November 06, 2008 10:24 PM (gsmLO)
As for your second suggestion, I might suggest that a good doctor and/or therapist might be able to cure your love of Obama. Wise and well balanced people don't fall for cults of personality as a general rule...
Posted by: Grey Fox at November 06, 2008 11:06 PM (xRy9W)
"...artillery and nuclear bombs are of limited utility to a government when the battlefield is its own cities, towns, transportation hubs and commercial centers. Then it becomes like Iraq, only far worse. It becomes a rat hunt where the rats outnumber you, and often, at the point of decision, beat you in the one thing that is most fundamental in an up-close infantry fight: rapid and deadly accurate rifle fire. Shouting Borg-like that "resistance is futile" may scare the faint-hearted, the weak-minded and certain children under the age of ten. It does NOT scare us."
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2007/05/guest-editorial-resistance-is-futile.html
Posted by: the pistolero at November 06, 2008 11:10 PM (QmK+E)
But, as tonto said so well, taxing firearms so much that people willingly disarm is much more the current leftist strategy. Sounds like some reloading equipment is in my future. I can sell rounds to friends as well as keep myself well-supplied.
Posted by: iconoclast at November 07, 2008 01:09 AM (TzLpv)
I guess that makes Joe Biden a "wingnut", too.
Whodathunkit?
Posted by: Nahanni at November 07, 2008 01:26 AM (S4wMM)
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_promises_to_stop_americas
They sell Garands in several grades and I want to judge which I should buy. Prices range from $499 to $1400. Also, they have 30 cal military ammunition for 24¢ a round in lots of 400.
Will let you know what I find. The Garands are semi automatics, but they are far from pop guns.
Posted by: arch at November 07, 2008 05:49 AM (5XVEI)
Posted by: arch at November 07, 2008 06:00 AM (5XVEI)
Posted by: Joe Mama at November 07, 2008 08:30 AM (Fw0e9)
But on a Nationwide level: Waxman is coming. "Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., is challenging Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., for the chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee." - So, Nancy Pelosi is going to toss the embarrassing four-rent-controlled-apartment John Dingell over, and with Waxman you get the ultimate left wing West Coast uber-liberal.
If Waxman wins expect the Consumer Products Safety Commission to have jurisdiction over firearms.
If Waxman wins, expect a gun show ban - if Waxman wins, expect a gun control orgy.
Barack didn't spend all that time cooking up and paying-for anti-gun judicial reviews at the Joyce Foundation for nuthin'.
Oh yeh, absolutely NO (no-no-no!) correlation between the Down tanking and Obama, but absolute correlation between skyrocketing gun-sales and Obama...
Posted by: DirtCrashr at November 07, 2008 12:09 PM (VNM5w)
Oh wait- I remember- you were criticizing liberals for being paranoid and wanting to help terrorists. Take a look at the PATRIOT act that most conservatives wholeheartedly supported.
I fully support the second ammendment, but, damn- conservatives sure loved the intrusion on our rights when Bush whispered it into their ear. I support Obama but I don't want him, Bush, or anyone else doing it. Now?...Now?...Now it's time to tool up?
You fools on the right did a great disservice to your country when you goosestepped for Bush and screamed at your fellow citizens because they disagreed. Now most on the right don't even like him. Thanks for helping to erode our freedoms. The difference between the right and liberals? You'd be all too happy to have us punished by Bush. We'd never support Obama punishing you for simply disagreeing.
Ask that clown Hannity, who actually had his job saved by the ACLU before he was on Fox.
Posted by: Isaac at November 08, 2008 04:50 AM (wa6OX)
They have a new facility just north of I-20. Apparently, they get newly rebuilt rifles every tuesday, so wednesday is the day to be there. I'm very glad I went over in person rather than ordering online. One word of caution. I-20 goes to 6 lanes passing Taladega and everyone thinks they are on the speedway. If you're driving 70, you need to be on the shoulder.
They have three basic grades all safe to load and fire - rack, service and correct.
Rack grade rifles ($495) are pretty rough since most went through WWII and/or Korea. Barrels are worn; wood is mismatched and there is some pitting and considerable wear. If you are looking for a museum piece they are authentic. If you look carefully and use a gauge, you can find one that should shoot pretty well.
Service grades ($595) are in much better condition. The barrels have less wear. Most were built after 1952 and saw no major wartime abuse. You can buy one that has all Springfield or all H&R parts but the looks tend to vary quite a bit. If Congress starts making gun-ban noises, I'll drive back and select two service grades. It saves me $20 on FedEx and I won't have to take the luck of the draw.
Correct grade pieces ($950 to $975) are what I really want. They look new. In fact, they are exactly like the ones we used to field strip at Culver every morning. The wood is new birch or walnut and they have leather slings. Little to no wear. It would be safe to order a correct grade online.
Depending on the damage my wife and 6 grandchildren do this Christmas and how the IRS treats me, I will probably buy one correct grade or two service grades in January 2009.
Posted by: arch at November 08, 2008 07:46 AM (5XVEI)
There is no equal to fighting in your own territory. Simple! I have no desire to shoot any of my fellow Citizens in uniform or otherwise. Just don't mess with my Family, Home or my Guns! That WILL get you Shot!
Posted by: Askjel at November 13, 2008 12:22 AM (hCfl4)
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