Sipsey Street Irregulars: 1994 sure put the fear of gun control laws into some Dems.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

1994 sure put the fear of gun control laws into some Dems.

Some Democrats Want to Talk Gun Control, but Many Don’t

Democrats all over Washington issued statements Friday expressing sympathy and dismay over the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. But amid the sadness, grief and shock one thing was clear — most in the Democratic Party did not want to inject a discussion of gun control into the day.

Many Democrats blame gun control for Al Gore’s 2000 presidential loss and there has been an increasing reluctance over the past decade to push the issue to the forefront of American politics. In 2006, Democrats won a majority in Congress in part by winning in conservative areas with candidates who were proudly pro-gun rights.

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Longbow said...: Mike, they will take what ever they think they will get away with. Those who would control others do not think logically. Many times their actions are professionally suicidal, but if it moves the agenda "Foreward!", then they will go ahead and crack a few eggs. Socialism is a religion and government is their god. Certain numbers will behave as irrationally as a Mohammedan suicide bomber, with the exact same illogic and the exact same fanatical commitment.

I expect them to grab as much anti-constitutional ground as they can, now. The inevitable blow-back be damned. They will go for broke while they think they can get away with it.

God help us, and may God have mercy on them.; December 15, 2012 at 4:32 PM
David Forward said...: Fortunately for retaining a modicum of individual liberty of the ruling elite's subjects -- us benighted mundanes -- the politicians still have to stand for reelection. Many of the pro gun control political critters will have to weigh whether they get more votes banning, or otherwise encumbering, guns and/or ammo, or in standing up for individual rights and liberties (those that still stand in one diluted form or another) of the people they are supposed to represent and protect.

Karma, or more realistically, backlash can be deadly in the political game. Most political animals will seek to appease the group that supports them by the largest margin rather than actually follow that "worthless old parchment."; December 15, 2012 at 5:01 PM
Anonymous said...: I've former Congressman James Barcia-D of Bay City, MI one time when he explained how the vote went down. Barcia said that Clinton, would call him at 0200 and ask what bacon he wanted in exchange for his assault weapons vote. He told Clinton that his district would not abide a vote for the ban, and that Ted Nugent had fund raised for him and that it would be his political death. He also said that he had another Democrat friend in Wisconsin, with a similar blue collar district who succumbed to Clinton's request. That Wisconsin Democrat, was drummed out of Congress by the people at the next election.; December 16, 2012 at 4:08 PM
Anonymous said...: Well pretty soon the elections won't mean anything anymore because they are importing as many new voters as possible, as fast as possible. Your vote is or will be cancelled out by their new voters...

But it's not a plan or conspiracy or anything...; December 17, 2012 at 10:51 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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1994 sure put the fear of gun control laws into some Dems.

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