{"id":13687,"date":"2013-04-16T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13687"},"modified":"2013-04-16T07:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:00:41","slug":"i-think-the-traitors-are-going-to-be-hoist-on-their-own-petard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/i-think-the-traitors-are-going-to-be-hoist-on-their-own-petard\/","title":{"rendered":"I think the traitors are going to be hoist on their own petard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brilliant piece from David Codrea<\/a>, a man who has the special genius of being both reasonable and hardcore-passionate at the same time.<\/p>\n

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\u2019t recognize any such bargains agreed to.<\/p>\n

If the rejoinder to that is \u201cthey\u201d might pass something \u201cworse,\u201d let them try. I\u2019ll 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 \u201cworse\u201d) 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 \u201cillegal\u201d transfer with someone who poses no danger to anyone — unless you poke him with a stick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And over at Western Rifle Shooters<\/a>, we’re reminded about the well-deserved fate of “leaders” who cooperate with evil<\/a> when they should instead fight against it.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019t recognize any such bargains agreed to. If the rejoinder to that is \u201cthey\u201d might pass something \u201cworse,\u201d let them try. I\u2019ll fight them every step of the way (and if just a tenth of gun owners took that position we would…<\/p>\n

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