01.06.13
The local Insurrectionist trade show
Dreadfully familiar, from the local newspaper, coverage of a gun show in Ontario, about twenty minutes west of me. It’s the standard collection of pugnacious white men, stockpiling weapons and ammo, for the group delusion they’re the bastion that protects the Bill of Rights, taking practical measures to defend the Constitution, ready to fight off the US military and shoot all the government agents when tyranny comes.
If gun-control advocates fear a nation awash in weapons, others fear a government powerful enough to tell citizens whether they can arm themselves.
The Second Amendment “is actually to overthrow a government,” said Hill, who said he is an Air Force veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“It was the right to support the more perfect union,” he said. “It was to keep the government in check” …
A few people stood in line with a rifle or two slung over their shoulders with signs showing offers to sell or trade the weapons. Others exited the venue with hand trucks bearing stacks of ammunition.
Thick clusters assembled around any vendor dealing in ammunition. Templeton said many consumers are buying as much ammunition as they can, as soon as they can.
The right to support the more perfect union. Yes, their the very picture of a perfect defense of unity in the populace of the USA.
This is the other California I frequently talk about. It was the majority when I arrived in the San Gabriel Valley twenty years ago. Now it’s in the minority, pitted against the whole. It votes far right southern and has contributed to the radicalization and destruction of the GOP in California.
Paradoxically, WhiteManistan never views itself as extreme. Rolling handcarts full of boxes of ammo doesn’t strike them as abnormal behavior. It’s everyone else, now giving them fishy looks, who has gone to hell. They’ll defend freedom and liberty to the death, don’t you know?
This song was absolutely made for them: ‘Buy your assault gun, don’t be late.’
An opinion piece, written by a National Rife Association lifetime member, now alienated by what he sees in the organization and its recommendation to put more arms into schools (From a Corvallis newspaper, last week):
I am surprised you have failed to see the looming disaster facing American gun owners. Even if the Newtown massacre turns out not to be the final straw on the camel’s back, it is certainly coming.
And when it does, we can expect a cascading, unstoppable movement to restrict, prohibit and even confiscate guns and ammunition, much like the one that swept through Australia following the slaughter of 35 innocent people in Port Arthur in 1996.
On that day we will have no goodwill banked, no history of thoughtful discussion or cooperation. Our record will be one of threats and intimidation combined with disgusting alliances with low lifes like disgraced former Idaho senator Larry Craig, and serial blowhard Ted Nugent. It is a shameful legacy.
I am hopeful your news conference will soon be recognized as the beginning of the end of your reign as CEO and executive vice president of the NRA, [Wayne LaPierre]. You have been a vengeful, mean-spirited demagogue and under your leadership, the NRA has morphed into the worst kind of bully, one that rules with fear.