Sipsey Street Irregulars: New 'assault weapon' poll gives new reason to be glad US is not a 'democracy'

Friday, January 3, 2014

New 'assault weapon' poll gives new reason to be glad US is not a 'democracy'

The public can vote to ban so-called "assault weapons" if it wants. A majority can even vote to confiscate those we already own. They need to remember, though, that to paraphrase Mike Vanderboegh, even after the polls close, the armed citizen still gets a vote. That would be a very ugly campaign, and one that the pro-forcible disarmament camp would lose--badly.

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Anonymous said...: "The Second Amendment is no different."
SCOTUS SO ORDERED.

That is stated in direct context of the First Amendment that nitwit "journalists" (pollsters included) hold so dear.

Now then, mr Rasmussen, let's just ask this straight up poll question - Does government have the authority to ban "assault type weapons?

Even me pollster himself is to chicken shit to ask that question - mostly because he IS smart enough to know the answer - which is obviously NO. He wouldn't want to expose the idiocy of his very bread and butter - the "people" he polls alongside the. "Science " of his "polls".; January 3, 2014 at 5:35 AM
Anonymous said...: I note that the question was: "semiautomatic and 'Assault style'

This is a far broader class of firearms and encompasses ALL modern sporting firearms including semiautomatic Fudd guns.

Everything that has been around since 1904 - we are dealing with Luddites.

III; January 3, 2014 at 1:54 PM
Paul X said...: Although the article conclusion was right on target, the writer must have been smoking something when he penned this:
"That's because in a republic, and not a "democracy," the rights of 49% of the population are not to be held hostage to the whims of the other 51%, or indeed the rights of 33% to the whims of 59% as claimed by Rasmussen, or even 0.01% to the whims of the other 99.99%. Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human rights cannot be made subject to a popularity contest, or they are no rights at all."

Time to wake up, dude. The only thing guaranteeing this right is the willingness of people to shoot the confiscators. Exactly as you concluded, in fact.; January 3, 2014 at 10:23 PM
gunnyg said...: No bravado here but I'll will take a few with me. I knew that my life was forfeit when I signed on the dotted line in 1979 and kept on signing until 2002. I'd rather be dead than live in what will be left over if we surrender.

Paul X nailed it. Shoot those who violate the Constitution.; January 3, 2014 at 11:51 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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