Sipsey Street Irregulars: Dick Metcalf: "Heads Further Left, Becomes A Useful Idiot For The Gun Control Cult."

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Dick Metcalf: "Heads Further Left, Becomes A Useful Idiot For The Gun Control Cult."

(Metcalf) showed that despite a long publishing and academic career, he fundamentally doesn’t grasp the meaning and intent of the Second Amendment. Specifically, he betrayed that he either simply is incapable of understanding what the Founders meant when they stated the need for a well-regulated militia, or that he simply doesn’t agree with it. Instead of showing contrition for his ignorance (or arrogance), he continues to insist that “well-regulated” means “lawyered to death,” and that his fellow gun owners simply aren’t as good as he is.

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G. Joseph Fondren said...: Look up the meaning of "well-regulated" in Webster's Dictionary of 1828 which is almost universally accepted as defining words used by our Founders. "Well-regulated" at the time of authorship of the 2A meant "being as a person or thing should be", or what today we just call "good". So, the Founders meant, " A good militia, being necessary to the security of a free state..."; July 1, 2014 at 9:10 AM
Anonymous said...: If "well regulated" meant and means what this FRAUD makes it out to mean, what the NRA "leadership" thinks it means, then the British were just ensuring well regulation when they came to Lexington and Concord. Why, those Redcoats were just there to ensure the "public safety".

Ironically, those screaming the loudest about "training" and permits are at a loss to understand that gun control laws have created EXACTLY what the Second Amendment lists as a profound reason NOT to have gun control imposed in the first place.

People are not well regulated, they are not familiar, practiced and generally prepared and informed about firearms - BECAUSE the zealots imposed their unconstitutional infringements.

Firearms and their care should be as commonplace as today's smartphones. Well regulated are smartphones because the vast majority is familiar with them.

Just think if people were told they had to "qualify" and pay for permits (hundreds of dollars to government of course) and then attend training classes too(another hundreds of dollars of course) before they could buy and carry a smartphone?! Imagine the outrage!

But but but but but guns KILL!!! Uh huh. And cell phones are used as bomb detonators too.

But but but phones aren't a right!! Umm tools used for free association and speech? On top of that, today's phones hold email (hence SCOTUS bitchslap of Barry saying GET A WARRANT) and other writings of personal nature.

I submit we take this to the next level. We seek to APPLY what Scalia wrote. We hoist them all on their own petard. We point out that the SECOND AMENDMENT IS NO DIFFERENT!

Hey gun grabbing bloggers, got your free press PERMIT? Hey gun grabbing journalists, are you authorized, trained and permitted? Are you ready for 100 word limits? Certain word bans. And one article a month limits? How about FELONIES for even accidental violations?

My question is, why aren't the "leaders" already waging that very debate- especially on the talking head shows and on legislative floors (besides the campaign trail)? The answer is simple - doing so might actually settle the issue and then they lose their staple campaign issue.........and the MONEY gained by seeing it never settled.

The cat this is about cares about one thing - lining his own pocket. Wayne and Cox are no different and it's time to not only see that but also to admit it.; July 1, 2014 at 9:50 AM
J. Travis said...: "Mandatory training"?

Let's do it.

Let's have gun safety training in public school from First grade on.

Rifle training from Middle school and pistol training in high school.

Let's have some defensive and tactical training as a required course for a Bachelor's degree. It's a lot more useful than mandatory classes in "applied metrosexuality" or some such drivel.

But THAT's not what they mean, is it?; July 1, 2014 at 12:37 PM
Anonymous said...: Be kind! Poor Dick ia suffering from age degeneration of the mind ... so publicaly and obviously.

III; July 1, 2014 at 10:46 PM
Paul X said...: "Is your right to drive a car being infringed by a speed limit?"

Yes, it is. As well, by requirements for a driver's license and tags for the car.

I guess it depends on what the meaning of "is", is...

Let him be a whore for the gun banners. The position suits him.; July 1, 2014 at 11:59 PM
Jhn1 said...: What I heard before a Concealed carry class in Florida in the early CCW days there (early large classes were taught by lawyers, and half of each class were prospective trainers wanting the most/broadest elements for their own classes) was that by the terms of the day, "well-regulated" was skilled, practiced, and willing to be responsible to a chain of command.

And that makes sense from what they saw, and recognized they needed for the future.; July 2, 2014 at 12:49 AM

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"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.

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