These guys need a new sheet of music. They're boring the rest of us.

("Man, this ain't no lullaby but it sure is boring.")

"Now the time (sic) to fight tooth and nail for stronger, more intelligent U.S. gun control."

My reply:

Don't look now, but despite your reflexive collectivism, the paradigm has shifted beneath your feet and made such tyrannical bleating moot. Let's start with "universal background checks" which is another way of saying "firearm owner registration." Not even King George the Third was so grasping and you may recall what happened to his ambitions.

Your demi-god of citizen disarmament Mike Bloomberg bought himself a background check law recently in the state of WA. What happened? He managed to provoke a movement of armed civil disobedience. A couple thousand WA firearm owners met on the steps of the state capitol (having been denied a permit, as if that was going to keep them away) in defiance of the state law, transferred firearms one to another and dared the state authorities to do anything about it. They did nothing. Then they held a "background check free" firearms expo in Yakima. Again the authorities did nothing. Indeed, the "authorities" there don't know whether to defecate or go blind. All Bloomberg can do is tear his hair and rend his expensive suits in frustration at the wastage of his millions.

The same thing is happening in neighboring OR, as well as in all the states that passed tyrannical laws in the wake of Sandy Hook -- NY, CT, MD and CO. Armed civil disobedients are flouting those laws with impunity, grimly determined, growling "We Will Not Comply." Again, the authorities, having passed a law, are at a loss to know how to enforce it upon hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of newly-created felons who refuse to act like criminals. So you want to take our armed civil disobedience movement and make it national? Cool. Thanks for the help in organizing. You obviously have never heard of the Law of Unintended Consequences.

To "stop gun violence" by provoking a bloody civil war seems an odd way to go about it, but then you collectivist proto-tyrants never did make much sense to the rest of us. So kindly stop bleating "disarm the law-abiding" every time some evil criminal murders an innocent. We will not surrender our essential liberty upon the altar of your alleged good intentions. Until you have the courage of your alleged convictions and use state-sponsored violence to work your will upon us, just do us the favor of shutting up. You're boring the rest of us.

Mike Vanderboegh, Pinson, AL

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