Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
We’re now supposed to give up our guns because it’s the 21st Century, people, and the cops will totally protect us and oh, you can’t dare criticize the FBI for failing to disarm yet another ticking time bomb and what kind of crazy nut would expect a police officer to actually confront a gunman?
Show of hands: Who thinks this stops, even slows down, once those mean old not-actually-assault weapons get banned? That liberals have taken a hard stand in favor of cowardice does not exactly fill one with confidence that once we give up our Second Amendment rights that we’ll be safer or freer.
I guess we both have blood on our hands for having this chat – the real heroes are Sheriff Israel and the Broward Cowards. Because of the children or something.
But at CPAC, the president was super clear – he is not wavering on the Second Amendment. Sure, gooey puff boys like Marco Rubio are eager to roll over and show belly, but a hard line on our rights is not going anywhere. Hey Little Marco, this is the Republican Party, not the Foam Party.
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Rubio, displaying the political savvy that convinced him to don a studded leather collar and be led around on a leash by Chuck Schumer, talked Congressman Brian Mast into rolling too. Suckers. The New York Times was delighted that Mast agreed to commit career sucked by sticking his constituents in the back when he tried to leverage his being a vet into somehow qualifying him to tell everyone else what their rights are. Amazing, but those of us vets who don’t dance to the libs’ tune never seem to get a Golden Ticket to the NYT op-ed page.
These gullible outliers don’t change the fact that the rest of the GOP is solid. That’s why the left is changing the rules and trashing our norms to do what they can’t do politically through intimidation. They have cultural power and we don’t, and they now seek to use businesses to destroy our rights and silence our voices. Understand that they don’t want an argument or a conversation – they want to use their non-governmental cultural power to deny us access to a platform so that we are unable to make our views heard. We need to recognize this dangerous trend and counterattack ruthlessly with our political power.
Conservatism is not a suicide pact, and our principles are not a mandate to unilaterally disarm. We need to make them hate the new rules. Maybe they won’t learn anything, but at least they won’t win by cheating.
The liberal elite is using its social and cultural ties to those at the helm of big companies to essentially blacklist the NRA, and thereby the tens of millions of Americans who support gun rights. But oppression is oppression whether it’s done by a government bureaucrat or a corporate one, and our principle of non-interference in business assumes business stays out of politics. But now National, Hertz, and others are cutting ties to the NRA, and liberals are advocating banks do the same. Their intent is clear – what they can’t do in politics they will simply do by not allowing the representatives of people whose politics they don’t like access to the infrastructure of society. And we’re not supposed to do anything about it because, you know, free enterprise and stuff. You know, our principles.
No. They are exercising political power. We have our own political power, and we need to exercise it – ruthlessly. The first step is an executive order at the federal level directing that no federal contract can go to any company that discriminates against an organization based on its advocacy or exercise of an enumerated constitutional right. We wouldn’t allow a company to do business with our federal government if it discriminated on other grounds, so why should we do it discriminate on political grounds? Why should taxpayers be subsidizing people who hate them? When those government employees start walking past the Hertz and National counters, the liberal jerks who run those companies are going to find that they’re posing and posturing has a price.
Next, Congress needs to pass a comprehensive non-discrimination regime designed to protect us into law and allow individuals and entities the right to sue any business that discriminates on the basis of the advocacy for exercise of any constitutional right. We need to make sure there are huge penalties for non-compliance – how about $1 million a day? We also need attorneys’ fees provisions for the plaintiffs as well, because we want to turn lawyers into bounty hunters seeking out these posers who are doing so much damage to our society by collaborating in the suppression of speech that the elite does not approve of.
We could call it the “Civil Rights Anti-Discrimination Act” and dare the Democrats to vote against it. Now, of course, due to the filibuster, it might be tough to pass a law protecting our rights through Congress, but we own about 30 legislatures. That’s 30 states that can each outlaw this kind of discrimination within their borders. So Hertz and National, welcome to a whole bunch of lawsuits in Texas and Wyoming and elsewhere. But hey, it’s worth it because of the children, right?
The liberals are also pushing venues like Amazon and Roku to drop NRA News – to actively censor a news outlet because they don’t like its agenda (I appear regularly on it). The difference between government censorship and corporate censorship is no difference at all. Again, the federal government and the states have the power to regulate. Once again, we must ban discrimination on the basis of advocacy for or exercise of constitutional rights, and empower individual plaintiffs to seek penalties and attorneys’ fees for violations. If these companies really believe what they’re doing is right, they can hire lawyers in 30 states.
In fact, it’s clearly time to consider antitrust investigations and other legislation designed to bring to heel the massive, unaccountable, agenda-driven big Silicon Valley players.
Right now, none of this posturing has a price tag, but this private sector oppression is devastating to our political system. Anyone who thinks that this tactic will stop once guns are banned is kidding himself. We will no more accept submission to a bunch of companies than we will the government.
Now, this all doesn’t sound very conservative does it? Well, that’s the response Democrats are counting on, that we will pretend the old rules still apply while they’re jamming us with the new ones. These attacks are a fundamental assault on the liberty of normal Americans. We need to recognize them for what they are, and we need to exercise our own political power to defeat this attack on our ability to participate in our own governance. Bake us a cake, jerks. We warned you – you are going to hate the new rules.
Exactly!!!! Great article. This is the only way to fight the Progressive agenda. The lies and crimes they accuse us of are lies and crimes they are themselves guilty of. Put it right back on them. As I have repeated many times here. Don’t allow them to slip back under the wet rock from which they came. Eradicate them!!!! America Know your enemy.
The lefts’ full frontal attack is exposing the battle lines. I have family that have chosen the dark side (something must be done), now I know what to expect of them. They don’t have a clue what to expect from me. They are all urban oriented and know nothing about natural law, big government is their god. Let’s let things shake out, it should be fun to watch, push back is going to be a bitch!
https://me.me/i/this-is-a-ruger-mini-14-semi-automatic-uses-223-5781718
Good post Gil. One small inaccuracy in the results at the link. The Ruger Mini-14 also shoots 5.56 NATO ammo just like the AR-15 as well as both shootig .223 as shown at the link.
Good stuff. So exactly how do those companies effect most NRA members? I don’t get 5% off the rack rate at a Wyndham bedbug conference when I use the NRA Visa which I don’t have?
Don’t I get a better rate no matter what with a Hotwire or that outfit with the TV ad with the faggot hawking Zhivago or whatever the fuck?
Did I read here or somewhere that gun sales have spiked in FL post Parkland?
Entertaining to see that Hogg kid with his silent daddy pleading to convince us he’s not a crisis actor. BTW, whoever created the term and concept and spilled “crisis actor” is brilliant.
Here he is with his new hero:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2018/02/25/david-hogg-meets-dan-rather-rs.cnn
The unintended consequences the left creates are comical.
The NRA kills no one, Planned Parenthood kills millions.
Who do you suppose the Leftists want to destroy and who do they want to encourage?
How many TBPers have I heard about how much good corporations do for our economy and competitive? We should outlaw corporations. The revolutionary war was much about the kings corporations.
“Corporations” are interesting. Originally founded as a grant of limited liability to a business from the king, it served as one place to collect taxes from thousands of people. At the mere cost of granting those biz partners something they couldn’t grant themselves – getting away with common law damage and murder. Try granting yourself that immunity sometime.
But the giant benefit – worth hundreds of years of rule to the violence brokers – was as a scapegoat. “Pay no attention to our bad laws and murderous actions, look at that bad business doing all those bad things!” – the one that we govs created and allowed. “Hundreds of years” being the difference between the Brit monarchy and failed tax livestock management schemes of the Soviets, the District of Columbia, the EU, the Chicoms, et al.
How do you know the cops weren’t told to stand down for the drill? You are too quick to judge.
If you think the folks going to ShotShow and other venues are a minority, you need to attend one yourself.
If you think that these big corporations can’t be hurt by their own rules, then you aren’t doing the math of gun ownership.
If you want to hit back, remember that corporations only give a damn about revenue – so that is the best vote one can cast.
You don’t need to be an NRA member to vote with your wallet – it’s simple; just don’t buy their shit or use their services. There are many more gun owners than NRA members, and this kind of liberal corporate blackmail can only be stopped by making it more painful to comply with their communist agendas.
I agree. My point is that those corporations are shooting themselves in their respective feet. And….there are way more gun owners than NRA members. I’m a member because it was necessary to become one to join the places where I shoot and because I got free membership from a gun I bought.
The effect that these companies are having on the NRA as an organization is nil.
I did my tiny part by informing Simpli Safe via email that my planned purchase of one of their systems wouldn’t be happening due to their stance on the NRA.
Exactly – The facts are that the thinking people, whether they own guns or not are the producers of this nation. Period. Sillycon valley and their overwhelming power (currently) are due in most part to the largess of free money policies that are on their way out the door. At some point, they are going to have to produce something. These companies may get a lot of good PR with their “customers” in the big libtard cities now, but just like the flawed concept of buying their own overpriced stock with borrowed money at 5000 year low interest rates, it is only good for a few quarters until the math catches up with them.
The reality is that the same deplorables that elected Trump, also believe that “common sense” gun laws means those enacted at the founding of the constitution, and that a “big bad gun” is the best way of protecting oneself against a pharma induced rage monster. These companies are just pissing off the same vast majority of silent people that Hillary dismissed as not needed in the last election, with similar results on the horizon. Just vote with your pocket book. Really that simple.
Our government has done a fair job of limiting/eliminating the majority of our Rights under the auspices of “for your own good,” once the second amendment falls so too will the rest.
The doublespeak and groupthink that passes for political discourse will be the new normal, and people like myself will have to stay and fight, or pull up stakes for greener pastures.
The only reason the democrats had such power in the past was because they knew exactly how the republicans would respond to their shrieks about how terrible the republicans were.
Trump changed all that, what joy and happiness I had when Trump first put the reporters in their place instead of caving to the inevitable Racists charge. Then, he put the hooks in their noses and dragged them into wherever he wanted them to report on and then smashed them without pity for their fake news. Glorious!
Now, learn from Trump, we can now end the reasoned arguments with all their flawed talking points that the liberals throw at us with a BFYTW! Look it up, it took me three weeks to figure what that meant, but when I got it, it was golden!
Okay, a clue the first word is but and the last two words are that’s why.
As always, Kurt has a snarky, sarcastic & apt rejoinder to the Hysterical Liberal Cry of the Wounded Rabbit. Although this time all his “we shoulds” are a wish list for somebody in Big Daddy Guv to “do something” – to punish the offenders. What we are lacking is a pre-prepared counter-agenda we can enact personally. Fortunately or not, all we can do is talk. But its online effect is increasing. So … we need a “LOOK OVER THERE!!!” strategy like the Alinskiiis have been so successful with.
Throw out outrageous, preposterous, ridiculous proposals that, on closer examination, are perfectly logical, thoughtful and true. Like Sun Tzu, feint attack on one side while we flank them on the other. “LOOK OVER THERE!!!” Scream at that instead. While we introduce legislation or lawsuits. Purpose: demoralize evil and fiscally cripple its enforcers. While pointing out the REAL problems the MMM (Mockingbird Minitru Media) camouflages.
They howl ‘BAN GUNS’! We argue ‘Ban Single Motherhood.’ 26 out of the last 27 school shootings were caused by the abused sons of single mothers. NO other cause is as primary or dominant. Force all single welfare mothers to marry a Mooslim rapist and get fgm!
They bellow ‘BAN GUNS’! We contend ‘Ban forced public schooling.’ It’s the opposite of education, designed to reduce what were once very high quality children to soyboys, bored corporate drones and killbots to serve the WCCE – the World Corporate Communist Empire.
They shriek ‘ban guns’. We expostulate ‘Ban ALL BigPharma-ceuticals.’ Probably 100 out of the last 90 shootings 🙂 were caused by quack “patent medicines”. You know, the only kind the psychiatry snake-oil salesmen like to mis-prescribe and sell.
While the MMM tries to be serious with their lies and crocodile tears, we need to hit them with a funny but true and screamingly outrageous proposal. We already partially succeeded at that without any strategic or tactical effort – look how quickly the MMM jumped in with ‘there is no false flag’ or ‘there are no crisis actors’.
But lets attack some real causes. Agitate for ‘Repeal the 19th’ – women cause school shootings and war by raising bad boys. Don’t let them collapse civilization by mere votes! Married ones already own their husband’s dick’s votes. And got conservative enough to really protect their children.
Enact property requirements for voting. Stop the criminal class – the takers – from robbing the makers, the worthless from plundering the worthy.
Expostulate ‘Repeal the 17th’ – these problems started when the Neo-Roman Empire Senators began to be elected by the unwashed Sleeple prole masses, rather than successful businessman’s puppets in the state legislatures’ violence brokers.
Expand this list of “talking Points” to a real rogue’s gallery of rotating rejoinders. Let the outrageousness of really logical arguments get them to do the shouting for us. Have fun! 🙂
Bill of Rights…Not the Bill of Needs. Drop the mic and walk away !
The problem is, we have allowed the anti Second Amendment crowd to define the terms.
A firearm is a tool which possesses no evil intent on its own. Assigning intent to an inanimate object is the epitome of insanity. Demonizing a weapon on “looks alone” also marks the accuser as an unstable individual who is also insane. Call them out on their illogic and insanity.
Another dirty tactic the anti-Second Amendment crowd uses exposes children to potential and actual harm by putting them in “gun-free zones”. These people care not one wit about children, but uses them for their own nefarious purposes.
We need to TAKE BACK the argument…
When the antis blame the firearm for the actions of a criminal, state that: “a firearm is an inanimate object, subject only to the intent of the user. Firearms ARE used to preserve life and make a 90 lb. woman equal to a 200 lb. criminal”.
When the antis attempt to justify their “gun free zones” counter their misguided argument with “you mean, criminal safety zones” or “victim disarmament zones”.
State that “we protect our money, banks, politicians and celebrities, buildings and facilities with PEOPLE WITH GUNS, but protect our children with “gun-free zone” signs”.
When the antis criticize AR-15s in general, counter with: “you mean the most popular rifle of the day, use able by even the smallest, weakest person as a means of self-defense. Besides, AR-15s are FUN to shoot”. Offer to take them to the range and supply them with an AR-15, ammunition and range time. I have made many converts this way.
When the antis state that: “You don’t need an AR-15 to hunt with”, counter with “AR-15s ARE used for hunting, but in many states, are prohibited from being used to take large game because they are underpowered”.
When the antis state that: “AR-15s are high powered rifles”, correct them by stating that “AR-15s with the .223 or 5.56mm cartridge are considered medium-powered weapons–NOT “high-powered” by any means”.
When the antis state that: “you don’e need and AR-15”, counter with, “Who are YOU to considere what I need?”
When the antis state that: “the Constitution was written during the ime of muskets, and that the Second Amendment should only apply to “weapons of that time period”, state that: “by your logic, the First Amendment should not apply to modern-day telecommunications, internet, television, radio, public-address systems, books and newspapers produced on high-speed offset printing presses. Only “town-criers” and Benjamin Franklin type printing presses would be covered under the First Amendment”.
When the antis state that “only law enforcement and government should possess firearms”, remind them of the latest school shooting, as well as Columbine, where “law enforcement” SAT ON THEIR HANDS while children were being murdered, citing “officer safety”, afraid to challenge the shooter, despite being armed to the hilt. The government-run murderous sieges at Ruby Ridge and Waco are also good examples of government (mis)use of firearms.
This tome can be used to counter any argument against any infringement of our Second Amendment.