Old Gunhand, commenting on a Washington post article entitled
here entitled, "Gun control groups plan to try, try again,"
writes:
This is why we have to fight tooth and nail to stop the Federal government from intruding on our lives and influencing our State governments through promises or threats of financial aid. You can see from the linked article below that they just will not give up. They have to win.
Although most of us did not expect it in the aftermath of Sandy Hook, the only gains the collectivist gun-grabbers have made so far is at the state level. So that is where we must fight them. This is the basis of my smuggling campaign of armed civil disobedience. The politics of the largely blue states where these losses have happened makes it harder to influence the outcome in a legal fashion, but they must be resisted in any case by any means necessary. (See "Thousands attend NY SAFE Act protest.")
For me that will mean that it takes a day of straight-through driving to get to Colorado the first week of July in a rental car, with all the gas that entails, and then -- assuming I survive the experience -- a day back to Birmingham. Yet the fight is in Colorado so that is where I will go. I will likely be bringing my daughter Zoe along as co-driver, video witness and ersatz nurse to help me change my wound dressings and keep a sharp eye on my health for Rosey.
We are procuring stickers for the magazines that say "Defy. Resist. Evade. Smuggle." The plans for the action itself is still somewhat up in the air, but Denver as a venue has, at the sage advice of Colorado friends, been ruled out for now. I'm sorry that is all the info I have at this time, but I will have more as the time approaches.
(LATER: One of the uncertainties is that there is an outside possibility that the legal challenge to the Colorado law may yet produce an injunction staying enforcement until the courts decide the merits of the case. If that happens, I'll use the magazines collected to break the laws in another state.)
4 comments:
If you're coming through on I-80, let me know and I'll meet you somewhere and buy you a tank of gas and maybe a meal.
I thought Mike was going to Denver. I-80 would be a very long route from Birmingham. He might be taking I-70 though. In my travels, I think the best route to Denver from Birmingham is to go to Memphis and take I-40 West. A few miles past Amarillo, at Vega, TX, go Northwest on US385 to Dalhart, then US87 to Raton, NM and connect with I-25 North to Denver. In my opinion that is the best route to Colorado. The I-40 route would put him in Denver comfortably in about 2-1/2 days. I-70 West from St. Louis might be a few less miles, but it is a very boring route. The last time I drove I-70 the expansion joints in I-70 drove me crazy going bumpity-bump forever. Of all the routes I've driven to Colorado I greatly prefer the I-40 route described above. It gets you much further West much sooner and the scenery is better, especially between Dalhart, TX and Raton, NM, where you will see many pronghorn antelope on both sides of the road. Mike, I still wish you wouldn't do this. I really don't want to see you in a Colorado prison.
- Old Greybeard
El Paso County probably would be your better bet for a rally, methinks, near-center of the state plus Maketa's sticking his neck out for us, refusing to enforce Denver's diktats.
Hopefully, he and others will have the Black Forest Fire %100 contained, by then.
Rather than say "break the law" , I suggest you say "defy the unconstitutional code". Remember, unconstitutional "laws" are without merit and unenforceable.they are not laws at all thus you aren't breaking anything.
Do not give this ground to the enemy by conceding the language THEY prefer. In reality you plan on exercising what is a enumerated right and thus you cannot possibly be breaking the law! You are, in fact, defying unconstitutional code/statute. That's the difference between a patriot and a loyalist.
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