War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and junkies having sex in the streets is “public safety. With Democrats, every day is Opposite Day. [More]
It’s instructive to note who the Democrats want to keep on the streets and who they want to forcibly remove from society.
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A comment needs responding to. But I’m posting my reply here because one thing I insist on is keeping article comments on topic to what’s being invited for discussion, in this case, the inevitable utter failure of areas under total Democrat control and the dangers of expansion. To respond to points raised over at AmmoLand would hijack and derail that discussion and take focus off the reason I wrote the article and what I felt important to call attention to.
I gotta say, I can’t help but feel there’s a sentiment I’m picking up from that comment that I’m not doing enough. Or that I owe more. Don’t go there. Or do, and let’s compare records.
To start off with we can’t “all” agree the problem is mostly with Democrats even though it’s true. Half the country votes for them and will continue to do so regardless of what lies, crimes, perversions and outright treasonous subversions are exposed. But I didn’t write this to unquestioningly praise Republicans, which seems to be the comment poster’s takeaway. If that’s the case, I challenge him to find one 2A writer who has called out errant Republicans – including Donald Trump– more often and consistently than I have. Recent case in point: Who else is pointing out the Fort Stewart shooting exposes his past unkept promise on private arms at military bases?
The purpose of this piece was not to offer a grand manifesto for restoring the Republic and living happily ever after, just to expose another danger by using a story I haven’t seen on any other “gun sites” to illustrate a larger point. If we’re going to go beyond that, my response does not belong under an article on East Harlem degenerates and the politicians who enable them, and whose agenda will spread the misery wherever they gain power.
But yeah, I’ve been involved in plenty of constructive advocacy/activism efforts over the years. And ultimately, my “advice,” which seems what’s being asked for, centers on never expecting anything from a reader – or a politician or other “leader”– I don’t expect and hold myself to: Try to stay informed, look into things that could present problems or opportunities, speak out when needed, join with/assist those I find worthy when I can, stay armed, trained, and prepared, defy and disobey bad laws, and strive to live the principles I espouse. That by itself is not enough, which means my goal is to encourage others to do the same. And if enough of us, say Three Percent or so, are united in this ideology, the tyrants will have to think more than twice before overreaching. Face it—the Second Amendment is still, for the most part, working. Otherwise, there’d be nothing to stop mass confiscation, which you’ll notice “they” haven’t dared try (Addendum: After Katrina).
Well David, You are not doing enough.
Not enough to single handedly save the entire country.
However you do thousands of times as much as vast majority of critics, and certainly than I do!
Please keep up your good work and thank you for your service to freedom.
Information is power. We can’t fix things if we don’t know what’s broke and how it broke.
If only a couple of percent of gun owners read Codrea’s work, things would be looking much, much better for us.
My comments at Ammoland were in no way intended as a personal attack; please don’t take them that way. It just seems to me that as a community, myself included, we spend a great deal of time pointing out what’s wrong – but it never gets fixed, and we never have the important discussions. Namely, what can we do to correct the problems? Is what we’re doing effective? If not, how do we change that? I would disagree that those questions would be off topic on the Harlem article, as long as it was kept to the specific situation in Harlem and similar communities. I think it’s basically a version of Catherine Austin Fitts’ red button problem (https://solari.com/the-red-button-problem/).
I would encourage you to spend some time browsing the Solari website. While a lot of it is behind a paywall, a great deal of valuable material is free. Ms. Fitts actually comped me a two year subscription after I wrote her about something she’d said (it would appear that I have a talent for being unintentionally provocative). I’ve found that the material there is worth the somewhat off-putting price tag. For one thing, I’ve learned that while the Second Amendment has been effective at preventing the kind of officially sanctioned organized violence against the population that is so often seen in much of the rest of the world, it has most certainly NOT been effective at preventing the mass confiscation of Americans’ wealth. What could not be done by force, has and is being done by regulatory and financial sleight of hand. Just one piece of evidence would be that prior to 1960, more than 50% of thirty year olds were married and owned their own home. Today, that number has dropped below 10%. Now, the land and the houses didn’t just vanish, so who owns it all now? Follow the money, and you’ll find that it’s mostly the same moneyed special interests that find your AR-15 so distasteful. There’s yet another facet of this ongoing attack on our lives that is in need of a solution.
If I offended you on Ammoland, and if I’ve managed to offend you again here, please accept my sincere apologies.
Not offended, I agree the whole shebang is f’d up, and solutioms are hardly forthcoming in the existing power structure. I was just taken aback addressing that there and wanted to keep the conversation I was inviting on track, but also not avoid addressing your obviously thought-out comment as it relates to my work. I just feared if I responded there, I’d be sabotaging my own priority.
Wasn’t that the NAZI catchall? “It’s for your safety.”