St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner once again honored by CSGV

St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 21 September, 2012 | Kurt Hofmann

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Back in May, 2011, this column had the great honor of being excoriated in a blog published by the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. A superb Claire Wolfe quote cited in the author's Twitter profile drew some of the criticism, but the cause for most of CSGV's anguished bleating was this article, particularly the following passage:

If gun owners are indeed a minority in the U.S., so what? Does being in the minority make one's rights less worthy of defending? Such a situation would hardly be consistent with the values that are supposed to be an essential part of what makes this nation great.

Perhaps, though, this kind of thinking explains CSGV's insistence on referring to "our democracy" with such regularity, rather than acknowledging that our nation is a republic. Promoting the notion that we live in a society where the majority rules, meaning that 51% can legitimately vote away the fundamental human rights of the other 49%, fits right into CSGV's agenda, especially when coupled with the VPC's latest theme, of gun owners as a minority.

Here's a hint, though: there are still enough of us to defend our rights, and forgetting that would be bad news for everyone involved--but worse news for those who forget than for those who are forced to remind them.

Thursday evening, the author's Twitter feed once again drew CSGV's ire:

Remember: "Evil exists because good men don't kill the gov. officials committing it"

That's objectionable?

Only to those who believe that governments should get a free pass to commit evil with impunity. Those would be the same folks who clamor for a "government monopoly on force."

There is as much nobility in being despised by the despicable, as in being admired by the admirable.

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A man can be judged by his enemies.