The ever-fiery Mike Vanderboegh sends a warning to anti-gun state legislators via the tale of “Aunt Jenny.”
Maybe if you’re in Alabama (as Mike is), Jenny lore is in your blood. Dunno. I’d never heard of her. When I looked her up, I discovered that no two accounts agree. They’re so far apart that even her name is disputed. So are the political sympathies (or apathies) of Jenny and her vengeful brood — even though those views played a huge role in triggering the bloody doings.
I’m taking this version of the story as definitive, mostly because it doesn’t claim to know what nobody knows, yet adds some scintillatingly grim detail.
However you slice it — and slice is a deliberately chosen word here — whotta tale, whotta woman!
Very good story.
Confiscation is a very bad idea.Look what one Chris Dorner did,they will be creating hundreds,if not thousands just like him.Gov fools better wise up fast.
This is not a good thing.
The mind set that drove Aunt Jenny and her progenny is not to dissimiliar from that of the Pashtun’s in Afghanistan. Hardy mountain people that when you show up in their yard and kill their kin will then fight you the rest of their lives.
One thing to note, she only went after the actual killers of her husband and son, not the whole state/confederate government etc. The individuals were held directly responsible for how they chose to enfocre the laws. If LEO today had that very personal accountability they would chose their path more carefully.
Everr notice that most of LEO types seem to have very few friends outside of their coworkers or family? Makes me wonder…… i have had cops for neighbors and not one has ever been a neighbor that one could chew the fat with over a backyard fence. ‘course that was when I lived in a large city…but still……. Seems to me, the idea of a cop being your friend is long long gone.
Matt, what you say is true, but please note that in his open letter Mike Vanderboegh says precisely the opposite: “Had Jenny understood the principles of 4th Generation Warfare, she would have sent her boys to kill the Confederate Governor of the state of Alabama and his political minions — not to mention the Confederate congressmen who passed the despotic laws and the newspaper editors who endorsed them. For 4th Generation Warfare understands that the way to defeat an enemy is to directly engage the war makers and decision takers. Win the war there, and the raid parties stop coming.” Which, it should be noted, is also the style of warfare employed in Thomas More’s “Utopia” (not a very nice place, to be sure, but he did get this one thing right).
If another civil war ever comes to this country that’s the only strategy worth pursuing.
Oops. Sorry for the missing close italics (which should have been at the end of the quote). No edit feature here.
Fixed the itals for you, Laird. Sorry about the lack of an edit feature for the Commentariat.
I’m surprised Lon Horinuchi is still living myself. But then talk is cheap in political discourse.