Posted on 08/04/2009 6:38:24 PM PDT by marktwain
In Paramedic School, we were taught how to avoid being offended by little vexations such as patients spitting on you, threatening to report you for so much as touching them, or refusing definitive care in the middle of severe chest pain. The secret to being unprovoked is in understanding the reactions of the patient under the circumstances. If they are belligerent when intoxicated, it’s not personal, it’s the alcohol talking. Easy. If they’re afraid of dying and in severe denial, it’s the fear talking as fundamental processes are actually working perfectly. Simple. Nothing personal. It permits you to function without distraction, and in the end, it’s better for the patient that their vexations do not take. Of course if you think that gun owners are fools beneath you, that’s another sort of dynamic altogether, and as this is getting harder for media to hide, it brings up a new issue.
Last week, the Los Angeles Times wrote that the gun lobby elicits only a shrug from officials lately. Ordinarily, this could irritate gun owners and probably does, but it doesn’t have the intended impact, and here is why: When it comes to anti-liberty rhetoric such as this — this type which is crafted to stick a finger in your eye — not only is it the fear talking, but it also one of those FOX News body language moments, where you get to analyze what they are saying not only by their words, but by their subtle movements. In this case, Tone. Call it a teaching moment.
Body language in print comes through about as clearly as anywhere, and many liberty purists will simply give what papers want: attribution. Body language is fascinating to me, like defense mechanisms are, and readers are starting to see who the aggressor is, judging by how thin my morning paper is when it arrives on the front porch. (jab, jab)
Well, in the case of editorials and anti-gun endeavors, it’s the fear talking. Media putting venom into the reportage are against more than a civil right, they are against their own freedoms in a warped sort of way, and gun owners have noticed it for decades. Not only are media against their own rights, but their own authority. When you bash civil rights, you bash your own rights in the process. Dumb.
Are gun owners used to it? Should we be? We could be offended by this, and we’ve been tolerating lies for a long time, patiently waiting for editorial nonsense to be self-evident and for the electorate to get it. Now, they are getting it, by the tens of millions in 2008 and 2009, and media are turning up the heat. It’s sort of alright.. I guess..easy to overlook... it’s the fear talking.
At present, it’s now a matter of facing the chore of having to answer it to keep information correct, and this is important to understand: we could say that we know more about guns and what it is about guns than anti-gun people ever will, and that if the anti-gun crowd knew what we know, they wouldn’t be anti-gun. This is not correct; it is to say that spitting on you is an accident when it was deliberate. You need to be able to tell the difference. Even a dog knows the difference between someone tripping over him and being kicked. America is being kicked by the anti-gun movement and she needs to remember this, especially in 2010.
Gun control knows what guns are really all about, and it works to disable that. In the simplest terms, gun control works to seize the country by knocking out all of our safeguards of liberty and sovereign authority.
Oh, and what is that fear talking? Well, it’s the same fear that grips all liberals, that feeling that the truth will become obvious that liberals are not needed for the things they claim. When our government returns to a position of public service instead of self-preservation of the State, we’ll be alright. This is why we’re not anti-government: that claim that citizens who distrust officials are anti-government is the fear talking; the fear of not really being needed after all. This could be the slogan that sends the bureaucracy packing: You’re not needed.
When candidates run on a platform of repealing gun laws, it’s a beginning. Believe me, that’s a sense of purpose. Anti-crime programs have never worked, unless they worked to disarm the honest and pave the way for other programs. This needs to be unwound, and must be a plank on the liberty platform of conservatives, independents and libertarians.
And not all officials want this soft tyranny of being needed for their personal sense of purpose: more than thirty-seven states are fighting for Sovereignty by invoking the Tenth Amendment, with emphasis on affirming gun rights for constituents as a start. They could use a hand.
We answer these little gnawing media jabs against liberty and gun owners because you don’t’ let rats eat all the grain in the silo just because you can afford a few overnight nibbles here and there; you realize the truth that you have rats, and brother, do we have rats.
It’s not safety the anti-gun crowd wants, and it’s not guns they want to ban, it is Independence from them as our servants they want to discourage. Every gun control article is that fear talking, the fear of not being needed.
Republicans, call your office.
Yes, thanks for posting.
Nice. Thanks for posting this...
Not trying to hyjack the thread but I read this today and thought too bad this couple didn’t have a gun....
A retired British businessman almost hacked to death on the Caribbean island of Tobago could be left permanently paralysed.
Peter Green, who with wife Murium suffered horrific facial injuries, is paralysed on the left side of his body.
The 65-year-old is still in a medically induced coma after being slashed across the face and head with a machete during the horror attack at their holiday home in Tobago.
Tobago authorities revealed his injuries were so severe a neurosurgeon who was off duty had to be rushed to the Eric Williams hospital in Mount Hope to carry out an emergency operation.
Mr Green is understood to be suffering from internal bleeding as well as swelling of the brain.
His 59-year-old wife had part of her jaw chopped off during the attack at their single storey home in the Bacolet area of the island. She also suffered grievous injuries to her nose and face and needed at least four pints of blood.
Tonight police admitted they were baffled by the motive for the savage attack. No arrests have been made.
Horrific injuries: The British couple were set upon at their house in Bacelot
This us what the anti-gun zealots would give Americans. No protection.
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Outstanding!
Fun read. Thanks for posting.
Saw you were on the ‘gun rights site’ and thought I’d pass this along to you:
http://wtop.com/?nid=596&sid=1732465
“So far this year 21 percent fewer murders have been committed in D.C.”
I don’t know the date, but wasn’t there a handgun legislation enacted in DC this past year or late 2008.
I don’t normally post threads, but wanted to pass the info along...
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