Claire, this is my first venture over here at your new blog, and I am glad to see this post as my first one. It is SO perfect and a great start to our un=official autumn. Wishing you nothing but great things here, and I am so glad that you now have a little more freedom, pun intended, to post things like this.
Get ready for winter, as it is just around the corner, I am sure you know that also. And on that note, hit the ground and go.
AdamSeptember 5, 2016 4:13 pm
Claire, I don’t know if you saw this article at GQ, “Inside the Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns”. It’s about ATF’s storehouse of paper records of gun owners and trying to track down gun ownership when a gun is recovered after a crime.
Seems like a tipping point in the American Revolution was King George III’s police state goons doing gun confiscation. Wound up as a serious financial hickey for Georgie’s billfold.
Randall P.September 5, 2016 9:09 pm
I love to see you self-edited Claire @ work. I k ow one must make a living, but to see you… unrestrained, is a good thing. I hope that this new venture keeps you and the dogs in high kibble. 🙂
JohnSeptember 5, 2016 11:32 pm
Nice bumper sticker, business card, yard sign. etc. !!
I’d like to hope the “OTOH” and “They came for the gun owners. Big mistake.” buys some restraints. I would really like to hope not to many, especially the young, have been lulled into complacent acquiescence, ready to believe in a benign state. Really I would.
A progressive host on KGO radio (SF bay area) expressed dismay that people couldn’t pick their own doctor. He thought the whole idea that companies provided health insurance was a bad idea and he said he had no idea why that structure was so.
WWII wage controls, and compensation work arounds is how, Sir. And each new fix on what the last dictate broke, is how we get where we are. He doesn’t get it…
It’s Fabian statism for the kill.
Brad RSeptember 6, 2016 4:47 am
I love that poster! But would someone please re-do it without the grammatical error (superfluous “the”) in the second sentence?
I predict that the general response to any attempt at gun confiscation will SERIOUSLY not be a match for any of the surveys and polls on who has guns and what people think about them. Seriously…
Brad — Yeah. I’ve tried reading the poster as if that superfluous “the” was on purpose. But … doesn’t work. If someone wants to make a corrected version, I’ll slip in a replacement.
Nice work, Brad. I’ve made the correction in the post and credited it to you.
I don’t know who made the original. By the time I found it at The Gun Free Zone (link to Miguel in post), it had reached the vague status of F*c*b**k meme. Hope whoever made the first one finds your corrected version here.
LairdSeptember 6, 2016 8:05 am
Nice poster. It’s going into my archive. Thanks.
LBSSeptember 6, 2016 2:13 pm
@Adam: I read about the first half of the article before my eyes rolled back in my head and I had to stop. One thing struck me, though. There are more gun stores than grocery stores or McDonald’s? I don’t believe it! It’s certainly not true in this mid-sized Midwestern city.
[There are more gun stores than grocery stores or McDonald’s? I don’t believe it! It’s certainly not true in this mid-sized Midwestern city.]
Define “gun stores.”
I live in a Texas town of 20k. Three McDonalds, or two same-brand grocery stores plus Wal-Mart.
There are two “gun stores,” which is less than three, so it’s false.
But our Gibson’s has a big gun department, and Wally has some, and there are three pawn shops with decent if eclectic selections, plus several kitchen table dealers, which is six+ and more than three, so it’s true.
And if the author of that piece did as little research as she appears to have done on the gun owners/gun dealers’ perspective, she probably just counted every FFL holder in the country as a “gun store.” I know my local area has several kitchen-table gunsmiths (not dealers) whose operations are so invisible I’ve never seen them. But they’re listed in the FFL database.
Claire, this is my first venture over here at your new blog, and I am glad to see this post as my first one. It is SO perfect and a great start to our un=official autumn. Wishing you nothing but great things here, and I am so glad that you now have a little more freedom, pun intended, to post things like this.
Get ready for winter, as it is just around the corner, I am sure you know that also. And on that note, hit the ground and go.
Claire, I don’t know if you saw this article at GQ, “Inside the Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns”. It’s about ATF’s storehouse of paper records of gun owners and trying to track down gun ownership when a gun is recovered after a crime.
http://www.gq.com/story/inside-federal-bureau-of-way-too-many-guns
I guess that I have an attitude problem. 🙂
“They came for the gun owners. Big mistake.”
Seems like a tipping point in the American Revolution was King George III’s police state goons doing gun confiscation. Wound up as a serious financial hickey for Georgie’s billfold.
I love to see you self-edited Claire @ work. I k ow one must make a living, but to see you… unrestrained, is a good thing. I hope that this new venture keeps you and the dogs in high kibble. 🙂
Nice bumper sticker, business card, yard sign. etc. !!
I’d like to hope the “OTOH” and “They came for the gun owners. Big mistake.” buys some restraints. I would really like to hope not to many, especially the young, have been lulled into complacent acquiescence, ready to believe in a benign state. Really I would.
A progressive host on KGO radio (SF bay area) expressed dismay that people couldn’t pick their own doctor. He thought the whole idea that companies provided health insurance was a bad idea and he said he had no idea why that structure was so.
WWII wage controls, and compensation work arounds is how, Sir. And each new fix on what the last dictate broke, is how we get where we are. He doesn’t get it…
It’s Fabian statism for the kill.
I love that poster! But would someone please re-do it without the grammatical error (superfluous “the”) in the second sentence?
I predict that the general response to any attempt at gun confiscation will SERIOUSLY not be a match for any of the surveys and polls on who has guns and what people think about them. Seriously…
Brad — Yeah. I’ve tried reading the poster as if that superfluous “the” was on purpose. But … doesn’t work. If someone wants to make a corrected version, I’ll slip in a replacement.
Well, my GIMP-fu is very weak, but I’ve taken a stab at fixing the text. (He who proposes, disposes.) I wasn’t able to match the font exactly. And I don’t know how to upload an image here, so you’ll find it at http://www.wendymcelroy.com/images/newspost_images/first-they-came-gun-owners-3.jpg
Do please let me know who to credit for the original!
Nice work, Brad. I’ve made the correction in the post and credited it to you.
I don’t know who made the original. By the time I found it at The Gun Free Zone (link to Miguel in post), it had reached the vague status of F*c*b**k meme. Hope whoever made the first one finds your corrected version here.
Nice poster. It’s going into my archive. Thanks.
@Adam: I read about the first half of the article before my eyes rolled back in my head and I had to stop. One thing struck me, though. There are more gun stores than grocery stores or McDonald’s? I don’t believe it! It’s certainly not true in this mid-sized Midwestern city.
[There are more gun stores than grocery stores or McDonald’s? I don’t believe it! It’s certainly not true in this mid-sized Midwestern city.]
Define “gun stores.”
I live in a Texas town of 20k. Three McDonalds, or two same-brand grocery stores plus Wal-Mart.
There are two “gun stores,” which is less than three, so it’s false.
But our Gibson’s has a big gun department, and Wally has some, and there are three pawn shops with decent if eclectic selections, plus several kitchen table dealers, which is six+ and more than three, so it’s true.
And if the author of that piece did as little research as she appears to have done on the gun owners/gun dealers’ perspective, she probably just counted every FFL holder in the country as a “gun store.” I know my local area has several kitchen-table gunsmiths (not dealers) whose operations are so invisible I’ve never seen them. But they’re listed in the FFL database.