Posted on 12/02/2021 7:49:59 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
Various Tucker Carlson guests describe how our educational elites live in gated communities, have armed private security (so they don't have to dirty their hands with guns), favor open borders ("compassion" so they can have nannies for their kids going to private school away from immigrant kids, can have gardeners & servants), and despise the working people of flyover country with their guns & bibles. The "better people" favor gun confiscation, compassion for murderers, and abortion "rights".
When Candace Owens roasted gun-controller Alec Baldwin for his fatal gun accident, I was against it because, how could Baldwin convert his wrong views if conservatives so stridently attacked him?
But now that Baldwin is fecklessly claiming he didn't pull the trigger at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the "Rust" film, I see what Candace Owens was getting at.
Of course none of the elites, who don't dirty their hands with guns, but can freely hire them, know how to inspect a weapon like you and I would have to.
Of course Baldwin was allegedly negligent. If he didn't have his Salvadorean gardener to use a chain saw when a tree branch fell on his house, he would cut his hand off. He probably despises ordinary people like you and me, who know how to manage the ordinary mechanical things of life that have made the Western Civilization he despises the highest material culture in human history.
A man who carried a gun on his person in the ordinary way, was the early 1900s English writer G.K. Chesterton. He would use it to defend his wife, along with using a sword he carried in a cane.
(When Chesterton's wife experienced pain in the embrace of marriage on their wedding night, Chesterton resolved to live like brother and sister with her the rest of their lives, so they never had any children.)
One of Chesterton's most hilarious send-ups is a book called "Man Alive" about a character Innocent Smith, who gets privately arrested for bigamy, it turns out, with his own wife, the result of playing out an elaborate charade, for fun, not for profit as it would be today.
Smith was at one of the universities, Cambridge or Oxford. His tutor (in those days, studies were conducted one on one), told him of the meaninglessness of life.
Innocent Smith pulled out his gun, pointed it at his professor, offered to shoot him.
So one of the charges against Smith was that he discharged a firearm; but it wasn't fecklessly, negligently accidental like Alec Baldwin, it was deliberate, to get the professor to realize that -- wait for it --
Life Is Precious.
The professor defended Innocent Smith at his private trial, because his gun stunt had helped the professor get his head out of the ivory tower.
To Chesterton, as to any ordinary man in the age before the mass proliferation of telephones and police cars with radios (and, now, computers), who had a moral responsibility to protect those under his care, his wife, children, and dependent neighbors, the possession and proper use of a gun would be an ethical minimum.
But, of course, that interferes with the intention of the mis-educated elites to disarm the ordinary workers, in service of the 2,100 greedy billionaire oligarchs, who demand that the population be rendered defenseless, all the easier to enslave them.
There are so many video compilations of dumb liberal gun quotes that it’s almost cliche. That said, I still watch all of them. It’s hilarious how clueless they are. The fully semiautomatic AK15/AR47 is a menace!
G. K. Chesterton was a great writer. The Father Brown mysteries were good, of course, but he wrote so much more. One of my favorites was Four Faultless Felons, which also had to do with incidents that seemed to be criminal but were not (one of them involved a man arrested for picking pockets who was actually slipping money into people’s pockets).
Anyone who is concerned about Islamification in the West should read The Flying Inn, as well.
I have only 3 power tools I feel competent using, and one is a Dremel.
Bkmk
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