Brilliant piece from David Codrea, a man who has the special genius of being both reasonable and hardcore-passionate at the same time.
That said, my right to buy and sell my property to whomever I damn well please is not his to bargain with. I do not authorize CCRKBA to negotiate deals on my behalf for that, and don’t recognize any such bargains agreed to.
If the rejoinder to that is “they” might pass something “worse,” let them try. I’ll fight them every step of the way (and if just a tenth of gun owners took that position we would be politically invincible, so once more the do-nothing grousers share in much of the blame), and if in spite of that Congress still passes the Gottlieb-Manchin-Toomey pact (or something “worse”) outlawing all but exempted private sales, and if the President signs it into law, the day it becomes effective I pledge to defy it and conduct an “illegal” transfer with someone who poses no danger to anyone — unless you poke him with a stick.
And over at Western Rifle Shooters, we’re reminded about the well-deserved fate of “leaders” who cooperate with evil when they should instead fight against it.
Despite the cloudiness of my crystal ball and the fact that government supremacists will stop at nothing to achieve their goal of disarming us, I believe the Manchin-Toomey “compromise” and every related proposal will fail. Pass or fail, though, I believe every “compromiser” who tried to trade a ironclad right for the illusory “victory” of revokable government privileges will ultimately choke on his own treachery.
“I believe every ‘compromiser’ … will ultimately choke on his own treachery”
I can only hope.
I’m done backing up. Well, that’s actually been the case for years, but I feel the need to remind the anti-liberty bigots every time their twitchy feelers appear from under the refrigerator.
Since I have made the commitment to no longer vote, how to I go about voting the bastards out?
I believe every “compromiser” who tried to trade a ironclad right for the illusory “victory” of revokable government privileges will ultimately choke on his own treachery.
From your keyboard to God’s ear.
There are at least 3 positive outcomes from this little lesson:
1) My suspicions about Gottlieb and his phony organization are confirmed.
2) Any funds I choose to donate to organizations supporting liberty will not go to Gottlieb, but to his competitors.
3) I’ll have some fun seeing of the old trick of taping a postage-paid envelope to a brick really works.
I have received mail from the CCRKBA but, thank heaven, do not contribute to them. While there are some very good people at the NRA, that outfit on occasion has stabbed us in the back. Gun Owners of America is the only large organization that can really be trusted. Another group that seems to enjoy an excellent reputation is Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.
This will be one of those laws (assuming it gets passed) that will let us get some practice in violating laws. It doesn’t seem very enforceable without complete gun registration.
Could they be passing a general bill that says little and lets BATFE fill in the blanks? Could they really be letting bureacrats do the dirty work and taking the heat for gun registration? Maybe that’s been the plan all along. Well, I still will ignore it.
GOA is no friend of gun owners. They gave GWB a complete pass on the assault weapons ban. One of their people explained their “reasoning” to me. Because since the tyranny came from a republican, it was acceptable.
GOA also fired their most effective activists, for being so effective that it made politicians uncomfortable. When I asked about that, they responded that the person in question “had a personality conflict” with the chairman. I thought it was an advocacy group, not a social club. I was wrong.
Google “Dennis Fusaro.” read
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/771316/posts
JPFO is, as far as I can tell, the only truly principled advocacy group left standing. There’s something about life in Mordor that destroys character and principles. GOA soiled itself long ago. Ron Paul is the lone exception that proves the rule.
This page here explains why I will never give any money to GOA:
http://gunowners.org/arpaio.htm
Damn.
It’s bad enough that we have an alphabet soup of federal agencies; we also now have one of gun lobbying organizations.
Does anyone know anything about the National Association for Gun Rights? http://www.nationalgunrights.org/ Rand Paul endorses them; that ought to stand for something.
Thanks for the linkage, Ms. Wolfe.
On the off chance that someone is still looking at these comments, it’s worth relaying that Newsmax posted the following about Mississippi Republican Senator Roger Wicker, who voted against cloture:
He has a solidly conservative voting record, so much so that he drew notice last week when he voted to allow debate to begin on controversial gun legislation in the Senate. “I cast this vote at the request of the National Rifle Association, of which I am a member,” he said in a statement at the time that added he has a 100 percent voting record in favor of Second Amendment rights.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/wicker-letter-ricin-poison/2013/04/16/id/499817?s=al&promo_code=132B8-1
Yikes! I know GOA was run by scum, founded by an evil politician, but backing Apario for any office at all is shocking. GOA has progressed from being dishonest and unprincipled to rabidly dangerous.
Well, come on folks. Even Ron Paul had some disreputable stuff published in a newsletter under his name.
How easy is it to run a large organization and not have an occasional discordant note? The charge that GOA gives R’s a pass is not my experience.
My overall impression is that GOA is solid and consistent, as is JPFO. This is in contrast to NRA which has consistently, time and again, negotiated RKBA away. And even NRA, this time around, did not screw us although Gottlieb did.
I tend to agree with Paul B. on GOA. Yes, they’ve done some objectionable things when it comes to supporting R-party politicians. But on gun issues, they’re still (and to the best of my knowledge, always) hardcore. And their politician ratings are a thousand times more honest and accurate than the NRA’s.
JPFO, too, never compromises. But since they’re an educational group, barred from lobbying, that leaves GOA as the only real, consistent gun-rights advocates in DC.