Replies

Libertarian L. Neil Smith addresses this issue to some extent in his speech You Can't Fight A Culture War If You Ain't Got Any Culture. Something very simple, that even a child could draw--on the order of the Christian fish, or the Jewish Magen David, or the 60's anti-war movement's chicken foot, or the transsexuals' combined male/female symbol, or the homosexuals' pink triangle, or the neo-Nazis' swastika.

An X might serve, although perhaps it's too simple. How about an X inside a circle, the way it really looks on a target? The X's bars would cross at about a 60-degree angle (not 90 degrees), and the tips would not touch the circle.

Can we get one of our graphic designers to come up with a prototype?

We could also use some sort of standardized greeting among ourselves. "Molon labe" and "FMCDH" are common, but their place is between folks inside the gun culture and enemies of the gun culture, rather than among gun folks. Claire Wolfe has suggested "Four nineteen!" for lovers of liberty, since so many historical events of interest to libertarians happened on April 19th. I like that a lot, but it's not gun-culture-specific. "Lock and load!" makes sense only in regard to the M1 Garand--plus there's way too much bozo-grade testosterone in that one for most occasions. "Keep your powder dry!" is nice, although it's oriented more toward black-powder people than toward the rest of us.

Ideas?

"...X inside a circle..." I believe the X in a circle is already a symbol of white supremicists and the KKK. Similarly, a three-legged swastika is a symbol for supporters of Aparteid.

The plain "X" has other siginificance though:

The Roman numeral for the Ten Amendments in the Bill of Rights.
The Roman numeral for the Ten Commandments.
James Madison's Federalist Letter X which explains the difference between a republic and a democracy and why our government was set up to be a republic if we can keep it.

Personally, I would like to see a revival of the simple two-finger "vee" symbol originally used to symbolize allied victory, then the revolutionary "peace" movement of the 60s, but now to symbolize the second amendment. ... "TWO"