Sipsey Street Irregulars: Missourians will vote on whether right to keep and bear arms is 'unalieanable'

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Missourians will vote on whether right to keep and bear arms is 'unalieanable'

All of this, of course, comes to naught if Missourians vote the measure down, which would provide a reminder of the dangers of holding fundamental human rights hostage to the popularity contest of an election. Still, a similar measure won voters' approval by overwhelming margins in Louisiana last fall. Hopefully, Missouri voters will choose as wisely.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: What a stupid vote. Just like 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Or 2 rapists and a teenage girl voting on the evenings recreational activities. If anti gunners want our guns so bad then just come and kick off Civil War 2 / 2nd war of independence or whatever the hell the powers that be would call said war already.; July 22, 2014 at 9:43 AM
Anonymous said...: Under our wonderful government-controlled education system, most folks wouldn't know what "unalieanable" means.; July 22, 2014 at 10:37 AM
Anonymous said...: quote"Under our wonderful government-controlled education system, most folks wouldn't know what "unalieanable" means."unquote

Ha! Some folks in the DCOTP(tm)(Dumbest Country on the Planet)can't figure out how many sides a triangle has...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0RH0cYs4lw; July 22, 2014 at 1:48 PM
countenance said...: I pretty much watched this thing being born and raised in the legislative process, from pretty much a front row seat.

Of course I'll be voting for it, but no matter if it wins or loses, nothing will legally substantively change.

I'm wondering why we're having this vote at all. Maybe this and other referenda on the ballot in the state this year was meant to go on the November ballot to drive red team turnout, even though there's really nothing of circumstance in way of big Republican-Democrat political races on the ballot this fall anywhere in Missouri. The only statewide office up this year is Auditor, and he's a RINO/Republican who is in no danger of losing. No Congressional seats are expected to change hands, and there will be very little change in the red/blue composition of the state legislature, both chambers are very Republican.

As it is, we're voting on them in August, the primary date.; July 22, 2014 at 3:07 PM
Anonymous said...: If something is inalienable, it's not subject to a vote. It doesn't matter if 50.0001% or 99.9999% of morons think they can take it away.

The other commenter is exactly right. It's a mistake to even acknowledge the premise by holding a vote to that effect.; July 22, 2014 at 4:52 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 . . ."

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Missourians will vote on whether right to keep and bear arms is 'unalieanable'

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