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Monday, March 9, 2015

Yeah, how's that armed civil disobedience workin' out for ya?

Governor: No 'Appetite' for More Gun Control in Connecticut

"Wadsworth2" has a pertinent comment at the link:

It is interesting that the AP missed one of the principal reasons why Gov Malloy believes that there is no appetite for more gun control. In a first step towards confiscation, Connecticut enacted a law requiring registration of numerous semi-automatic rifles. The law had significant penalties for failure to register. Gun owners basically gave the governor and the state legislature the finger and said "come and get us"; compliance was estimated at less than 15%. The state government backed down and failed to enforce the law.

Here's the CCDL response to the Sandy Hook Final Report.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: I remember the article about the Sandy Hook commission being loaded will collectivist politicians. Not even one Fudd, to make it appear non-partisan.

I don't think Dannell and his friends have the same life insurance company as we do.

Connecticut used to proudly host the home offices of most of the major insurance companies, until taxation and over regulation forced them to find new homes.

Only one life insurance company is nationwide. See your local agent with any concerns.; March 9, 2015 at 11:49 AM
Anonymous said...: Mallory has 'no appetite' for more gun control. Let's add "at this time"

They will never quit with their efforts.; March 9, 2015 at 12:23 PM
Liberty or Death said...: What concerns me about our Life Insurance is the fedcoats will go after the fringe people, the ones we really are embarrassed to have first. Of course, no one will do anything about them and the feds will work their way through and around the Patriot Movement incrementally knowing nothing will be done. Also, lies will be told and evidence planted to make Patriots look like the worst of criminal scum. Be ready for Patriots to be "found with" child porn on their computers, tax evasion, whatever. We must move to protect them in good faith as "evidence" can be manufactured and "witnesses" found.; March 9, 2015 at 1:50 PM
GA Patriot said...: "No appetite"' eh? That's just because one of Malloy's pet commissioners let the confiscation cat out of the bag too soon. With disobedience so high now, they really will open a can of unintended consequences if they tried to implement the proposals.; March 9, 2015 at 5:39 PM
Anonymous said...: I wish that 15% compliance number was true, but that math doesn't add up. The truth is 15% is probably about the non-compliance number.; March 9, 2015 at 9:28 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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