We are on track to at least double our weekday number of pageviews today, and it is on a weekend.
Up to almost 20,000 and it's not even noon here yet. I guess we have this post to thank for the increased traffic. The thing is, it is not coming from being linked to any other site, but from individuals -- which tells me that this is getting an extreme workout on the personal email sharing lists. And THAT is OUTSTANDING.
LATER: Per numerous requests, I am working on a letter to the New York State Police, although I was told by one reader, "Make it shorter, neither the cops nor the gun collectors up here have the attention span that your (CT letter) required." Pretty funny, but okay, I'll make it shorter. Not as short as my classic reply to the firearms confiscation advocate some years ago when he demanded a short answer-- "If you try to take our firearms, we'll kill you" -- but shorter in any case. I'll probably post it tomorrow morning.
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I am watching CT with great interest. I am in the People's Republic of New York and this is like getting a preview of the not too distant future. We have similar legislation and the registration portion goes into effect on 4/15/14, approximately 4 months after the CT legislation took affect. I expect our registration percentages to be even lower, since the liberals downstate already created a setting where the couldn't own guns. The lines were already drawn in NY, long ago. I am taking notes, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. A similar letter to the NYSP would be useful and fair.
Mark III
The Jackasses in charge of that State have gun owners in CT facing something that most of us haven't had to, and a lot of us are just about tired of seeing our fellow citizens treated like enemies of the state.
I sent the letter, along with a link, to some friendly people I know who work in the office at the NH State Police.
it might be making the rounds up there.
I am surprised it's only 20,000 views . I found your blog by being directed from other blogs . We are in a post Christian world where anything goes. From President on down to the local authorities there are no rules or laws and only brute force will apply.
Prepare accordingly folks these dark times will be here for decades.
You are correct. That letter has appeared on 3 of the forums I am on. This has the potential to be as big as your work on beaking the gunwalker scandal to the public.
All us Three Percent patriots up here behind enemy lines in the Socialist Republic of New York, where "it doesn't take more than 10 rounds to kill a dear", are spreading this site all around. Your letter to the CT Gestapo State Police is resonating with many of us,,our own State Stazi needs the same "understanding".
I am in Utica, just 9 miles away from the Remington Arms Plant in Ilion,,,,we are saying NY is getting exactly what it deserves from Remington,,half of these idiots working there are voting DemocRATS and they are voting for the same commies who are chasing their employer out of the state . . . complete and utter union commie idiots.
I will NOT buy another Remington Arms firearm until they leave NYS.
Many of us in recent days have sent copies of your letter to the CT Gestapo State Police, to many around the State of New York where we live (in Utica), just 9 miles west of Ilion where the Remington Arms plant is located. We say NY State is getting exactly what it deserves, especially the folks working at Remington as over half of them are union members voting for democRATS and commies chasing their jobs away....complete socialist ding-bats.
Your letter to the CT SP is resonating with us up here with excitement. We would love a similar note sent to the NYSP "grey shirts" to make sure that "understand".
Paul
Utica, NY
A lot of people read this site because it gives honest action, its agenda is clearly stated, and Mike is an honorable man. I know a lot of "lurkers" who read, but are afraid to post. and I suspect the illegality of Connecticut's actions is starting to play in peoples' minds.
Friends in Sweden read this site.
I offer this observation.
Twenty thousand readers is a micro slice glance. I agree with miles "email list" angle - far more are reading that letter than can be tracked by anyone but NSA.
I suspect some will treat it as satire and not actually "real". So I predict "Snopes" will have to do a "check" to "decide" if in fact mike wrote this letter, sent it, to how many and possibly even decide how many received it.
I wonder about the same thing I wondered several years ago after I sent a mail to my states police force. Don't such letters become public information once submitted and wouldn't that make the letter submitted AND their responses ( or lack of them) become subject to FOIA? Wouldn't also internal emails ABOUT the letter become subject to FOIA?
Can you say "bridge lane closure" and "Chris Christie"?
On a whiole other level, wouldn't a comment from the NRA about these matters be in order?
And just one more.
Hey Rachel Maddow, you felt compelled to discuss "breaking windows" and you obviously have a vested interest in both championing exactly this kind of gun control lunacy and Mike himself, so are you going to pretend this isn't has opening or are you going to stand with the Courant folks openly? I noticed that you, Rachel, didn't even have the courage to report that Ray Nagin is a Democrat....and I'm betting you don't have enough to talk about this either. That would make your silence absolutely DEAFENING - and it would also open you up to serious criticism from Kosers and Huffers. WATCHA GOIN DO, Rachel? Hmmmm? It's HILARIOUS to me that you, Rachel, have a national microphone and that you CANT say a word about this.
It's only dwarfed by the hilarity that is the called bluff of both the Connecticut political class and it's media Lackeys. Your silence, Rachel, demonstrates that your ilk cannot be trusted to stand together - and that your right little group discussions and group think that arises out of them is, well, the bovine excitement so many call it. You are not even the target if this endeavor, RACHEL , but it's burning you like water on the wicked witch of the west that you are.
You are melting, Rachel. And there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.
I think better organization is in order. Think newspaper. Start with the most important information first. Then work down to nonessential info at the end. I think introducing yourself is important, but the most important part of your letter is asking them how they will respond to a group of felons larger than their entire police force by a factor of 100.
Nice letter. Interesting that Facebook is pulling it down when people post the link to it.
Don't stop, keep pushing.
This site is linked internationally - the fight for liberty is Global.
The thought of figting on as the lights of liberty go out across the United States is terrifying!
Kiwi III
Mike, You are a great writer, but I must concur with the original poster about brevity. Frankly, at this point, the only warning these state actors of all stripes should be hearing is the most brief message of fact. That lay in you briefest of responses as you said; "If you try to take our guns, we will kill you."
Short and direct is all that is needed to warn any foe. If they get their panties in a bunch due to a lack of "civility" so be it.
Your open letter is going viral on Facebook.
I've been driving traffic to this site for months if not years. Say "thanks Mitch".
A criminal in a stripper costume is still a criminal.
Not surprised at all.
I did some quick calculations about your "cold civil war" idea and if it went hot. Taking the numbers of the first civil war from 1861-1865, and extrapolated forward, it doesn't look good...
About 2-2.5% of the population died in that war, about 620,000 dead. (ie: Go on to your facebook page, pick out 100 guys, then kill two of them.)
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/facts.html
But... There's more: There's new research that points to the numbers of people who died in the Civil War were actually LOWER than original estimates.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/civil-war-toll-up-by-20-percent-in-new-estimate.html?pagewanted=all
Instead of the number of civil war dead being 618,000 dead, it would actually be closer to 750,000 dead.
If that percentage, 2.5%, holds for today, then we'd need (at least) 7.8 Million body bags.
Probably it could go even higher than if things get really nasty, one can use their imagination about how that would go about.
I pray that a civil war doesn't happen.
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