CW2 Ping
Posted on 01/08/2013 4:39:08 AM PST by Perseverando
Eight days after the massacre of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary, where each child was shot with a Bushmaster .223, The Nation’s Gun Show, the biggest east of the Mississippi, opened.
“A line already snaked around the building shortly after the three-day event began at 3 p.m., and the parking lot was jammed” at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Va., wrote Justin Jouvenal of the Washington Post:
“With an AK-47 slung over one shoulder, Marco Hernandez offered one word when asked why he was in the overflow crowd at the gun show.”
“Obama,” he said. “I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the possible gun ban.”
And this is the story across America since Sandy Hook.
The weapon most in demand at Chantilly?
The AR-15 black rifle, a version of which was used to slaughter the innocents in Newtown. At Chantilly, their price doubled in hours to $1,800. Gun stores have sold out their inventory.
Yet for weeks after Sandy Hook, journalists and politicians from the president to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who were making the case for a new assault-weapons ban, dominated the airwaves. Those calling for reinstatement of the ban that was in effect from 1994 to 2004 had the national audience almost entirely to themselves.
The National Rifle Association was largely silent. Not until nine days after Newtown did the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre appear on “Meet the Press” to be subjected to hostile interrogation.
Yet, from the record gun sales in December, and 2012 – there were 16.8 million calls to the FBI for background checks for gun purchases last year – the elites have lost the argument with the audience that counts. They have failed to convince those who buy guns.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
You gathered that from an article of Pat's that supports gun owners and supports gun ownership ?
Dear Mr. Security Agent: A letter to law enforcement concerning gun control
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2975695/posts
A decade ago I wrote the novel Enemies Foreign and Domestic, a tale about how tragic events involving the misuse of firearms can be used by an evil administration to misinform and mold public opinion to support its malign anti-freedom policies.
No, my novel was not predicting “Operation Fast and Furious” a decade before that covert policy of “pursuing gun control under the radar,” (which was President Obama’s explanation to Sarah Brady for his lack of overt political action). That inter-agency gun-walking policy, remember, resulted in the deaths of over four hundred Mexicans and two U.S. federal agents, murdered in an effort to discredit the Second Amendment and lead to more restrictive gun control laws in America. (If Nixon—or any Republican, for that matter—were in office, the intentional bloodbath would be called Murdergate, but today’s collaborating Woodwards and Bernsteins are in on the cover-up.)
Let’s stipulate, for the sake of this discussion, that Buchanan is a moron.
What did he write here that is wrong?
Predictable.....
“Most Americans understand the need for arms”
(And legs as well.)
But seriously, we most assuredly understand the need more and more with each passing day.
I don’t think THEY understand how seriously we take this. I am a Jew. I will NEVER walk into a rhetorical cattlecar or a delousing shower as long as there is a single breath left in my body.
Congrats, this made it on Ann Barnhardt’s web page.
I’d rather die on my feet facing the tyrants with a gun in my hands, than on my knees disarmed, with a bullet to the neck from behind like in the photo above at 23.
If those are my choices, I know my choice.
Thanks. It’s getting around, I hope lots of LEOs read it and share it at the cop shops.
“...the massacre of 20 first-graders...”
“...a version of which was used to slaughter the innocents in Newtown....”
Wow, they’re really laying it on thick, aren’t they...
“...He has an unfortunate tendency toward tiny bits of racial animosity, ...”
There’s nothing “racist” about defending your own culture, heritage, values and society from other hostile races / minorities that are intent on erasing you and taking from you everything your ancestors built, fought, bled, and died for - or, for that matter, voting themselves into the treasury that your culture works to keep filled.
It’s called self-preservation. Buchanan gets it. Read his book “Death of the West” if you haven’t already. Its spot-on.
Other than that small point, I agree with your post 100%.
What was left out of the movie was when the Nazi guards deserted the camp, the inmates found some old rifles and protected the others till help arrived. They even shot it out with some armed Germans who tried to break in.
Can’t end on a pro-gun note now can they.
Bingo.
Saw this yesterday via Real Clear Politics Video:
Buchanan: “There Would Be A Revolution” If Government Confiscated Weapons
PAT BUCHANAN: There are three million ArmaLite rifles — those Bushmaster types — out there right now, and people are buying them like hotcakes. Every gun show, the sales are up enormously. Forty-one percent, they were up in December — for last December — which was a record year. John, what is common though, Eleanor [Clift] is correct, the push is going to come on three things: grandfather in the assault weapons that are here now; to try to outlaw assault weapons, outlaw magazines that carry more than 11 or 12 bullets; and also background checks at gun shows.
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN: With no Second Amendment, Congress could pass a law, as limited as this: banning assault rifles or as sweeping as prohibiting all private firearm ownership and requiring the surrender of all privately held firearms.
BUCHANAN: There would be a revolution in this country!
MCLAUGHLIN: Baloney! That doesn’t mean you can’t own one, but you have to put it in first and then go try —
BUCHANAN: There are 270 million guns in this country right now, John, and they’re adding to them at a rate of 16 million a year. (The McLaughlin Group, weekend of January 5, 2013)
Pretty powerful picture. That may indeed say a thousand words.
I have the luxury of having inherited many guns that were purchased long before there was any reporting or background checks of any kind. No way the government could possibly know I have them. If confiscation becomes a reality, I will just live as a criminal.
Could you provide an example of this?
Hmmmm, looks like time to visit some upcoming shows this year to do my part.
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