Sipsey Street Irregulars: Huffington Post seeks ‘gun violence’ stories from readers

Monday, May 6, 2013

Huffington Post seeks ‘gun violence’ stories from readers

Some comments under Spiering’s report suggested sending in stories of defensive gun uses. Anyone so inclined might also wish to give them what they ask for by sending them stories of “gun violence” focused on the kind perpetrated by agents of government.

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Anonymous said...: If the Huffington Post wants to investigate something serious on gun control why not find and report on one -- just one will do -- life that has been saved by ANY of the thousands of gun control laws already in existence. Give it a shot, so to speak. We want to read about this in detail please.; May 6, 2013 at 11:01 PM
Anonymous said...: I hear all this pissing and moaning about High Capacity gun magazines. Will we hear one single peep about the High Capacity motor vehicle that killed those ladies in the wedding party? I don't think so. If they had been in several "Smart Cars" instead of a Limo, fewer would have died. I recall hearing about certain cars long ago that would either burst into flames or go out of control all by themselves but I never have heard of proposed legislation to make cars either fireproof or have speed governors on them. Just my 2 cents worth.; May 7, 2013 at 2:13 AM
Anonymous said...: We need to send in a bunch of reports from the "Armed Citizen" section of NRA monthly magazines. These articles show that people with guns prevent violent crime and property crimes against people. GUNS SAVE LIVES!

The "Huffington Post" is, of course, not interested in that.

- Old Greybeard; May 7, 2013 at 12:20 PM

"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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