Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Here is my proposed gun control compromise following the latest attack on children that millions of us did not commit. Ready? You gun fascists can kiss my Schumer and we keep our guns. In fact, let’s also repeal the National Firearms Act and impose national constitutional carry. I think this compromise fairly balances our respective legitimate interests regarding guns. Our legitimate interest is maintaining the capacity to deter and defeat tyrants and criminals. Your legitimate interest in limiting our ability to do so is non-existent.
There are several Republicans who are apparently eager to come to a compromise on guns with the Democrats, whose ultimate goal is to rule unchallenged over a nation of disarmed, supine Canadian serfs. Some are lawyers, which explains why they are in Congress and not raking in bucks lawyering. If I went to one of my clients and suggested, “Okay, I propose we resolve this matter by giving the other side a lot of money and getting nothing in return,” I would have to find an alternate income stream too.
The idea of a compromise involves getting something you want but giving away something to get it. So far, so good – that’s how negotiating works. But the key point is to get something you want. Here, what we get is that we lose less than they want us to ultimately lose. Instead of banning “assault rifles” completely – every healthy, law-abiding adult citizen should have a real military assault rifle, but that’s a tangent – the proposed “compromise” seems to be just to ban them completely for some younger adult citizens. See, I’m missing the part where we get something in return instead of merely losing less. But the durwoods of the softcon wing of the GOP seem pretty eager to fail less spectacularly than they might otherwise and call it a victory.
Of course, this effectively buys into the premise that there is something wrong with guns. There is not. Guns, as I point out in my new book “We’ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America,” are an essential element of any free society. Australia gave up its guns and look at them. Canada, too. Nah, I say we unreservedly reserve our ultimate veto over tyranny.
People who wish us ill wish the opposite. Recently, Chris Hayes, the bespectacled nimrod who holds the briefcase of the slightly more masculine Rachel Maddow at MSNBC, recently simpered that a lot of Americans insist on keeping their guns to fight tyrannical government agents. Well, yeah. Exactly. Nothing gets by him. Weird that he would reach back about 250 years to oppose the Revolutionary War, but whatever. Sissies gotta siss.
The unspoken premise of the people outraged that the citizenry wants to retain the ultimate veto on government power is that they are the ones who will be wielding that government power. And you need to wonder why they want us disarmed.
Actually, you don’t. You lived through COVID and know.
In support of this noxious notion come some establishment people waving their credentials on Twitter around like you should simply defer to them. One is a major general who used to run my alma mater, the Infantry School at Ft. Benning. According to the general, he gets it. He knows that these are weapons of war and that we civilians don’t need them. Well, not so much.
As much as I love generals [INSERT THEATRICAL EYE-ROLL HERE], I must point out some problems with the two-star’s premise. A major general typically commands a division of about 15,000. He is a conductor of organized violence, operating in the macro. Of course, he understands what a 5.56mm/.223 round can do. You know who else knows what a 5.56mm/.223 round can do? Me and every other vet who ever shot one, as well as the 20 million or more Americans who own AR-15s and the tens of millions of others who have used them. So, there’s no special expertise there.
We know those rounds can hurt people. That’s why we want them. To hurt bad people if deterrence fails. That’s why in the LA Riots, the Army gave me a 5.56mm rifle to carry. I just think everyone else should get the same protection I had.
The general goes further than mere technical details and opines that such weapons do not belong in the possession of anyone outside the military, where, presumably, people like him can control their use. But that’s not a technical issue for which he is offering his expertise. That’s a policy issue. Why is a former (but sympathetic) government official under the impression that his past position gives him some sort of special expertise that we should defer to in terms of foundational constitutional policy, i.e., whether or not citizens should have the capacity to resist violent tyranny? The answer is that he doesn’t, and the fact that guys like him are presumably the ones who would be called upon to carry out the dirty work of a tyrannical government (in the remote but potential scenario where that might happen in the future) actually makes him the very worst person to opine on the policy.
But you are supposed to be dazzled by the stars and submit. You can be sure there are GOP dummies just aching to, held back only by Mitch McConnell – the frustrating Murder Turtle who nevertheless is no dummy – whispering in their ears that screwing us over on guns is just about the only thing that can turn an electoral environment of $6 a gallon gas and public school groomers into a Republican rout.
No, this is not the time to go soft. This is not the time to indulge the perennial Republican disease of craven spinelessness in the face of Democrats and their regime media minions screaming lies about them. This is the time to say “No.”
No compromise on our rights. Not now. Not ever.
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When the Republican side of the Uniparty gives Brandon his gun control, Schlichter will write one of his controlled opposition articles about how if we vote harder next time, we can reverse 50 years of laws leading up to our imperial collapse that is happening RIGHT NOW.
These curs can write and sign whatever they want.
If neither the Constitution nor the Second Amendment are absolute, then nothing they can draft and stamp is absolute.
Everyone who matters already has what they need.
And then some.
I guess the major general forgot his oath “to defend the Constitution” and has himself become an enemy, domestic.
Majorette general. Sure to have been a slew (no pun intended, just probably factual) of ’em over time. Powdered wigs, anyone?
Compromise by dickless. criminally corrupt worms brought the Republic to this point total collapse , but more compromise will save US .
Never back down. Never apologize and most of all, never compromise. It only leads to ruin….first gradually , then all of a sudden.
“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,…Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Finally, I can wholeheartedly agree with him. The line about MadCow being a bit more masculine than Hayes is hilarious. We can appreciate these half-assed attempts by ShitLibs to shave our gun rights because an upsurge always ensues of new gun owners. I’m thrilled to hear that gun sales in Canada are also rising. Apparently getting pushed around by their bastard tin-horn dictator has awakened the few men left there who retain some self-respect.
Do you think the dems even noticed that the top three months for NICS checks in history (well since 1998) were December 2020 and January and March 2021? They are driving people to gun stores. Only problem is if you take Uber to the gun shop, you’ll have to find another way home!
Everyone says “shall not be infringed” but everyone seems to forget “well regulated”
Well Regulated refers to you having enough firearms power to facilitate an adequate defensive or offensive stand !
“well-regulated” means well-drilled and well-led. the 2nd is about the militia which secures a free state, not individuals acting alone.
All men in society are expected to fill a militia. The infirm and demented not so.
Why don’t you provide the historic meaning of “well regulated” at the time the second amendment was passed? Is it because you are clueless? Dishonest?
As an obvious liberal socialist democrat, he is clearly both! Clueless and dishonest is the only consistent trait among democrat voters and politicians. Is there a better example than Biden?
sure. “well-regulated” means well-drilled and well-led. individuals acting alone cannot maintain the security of a free state.
Actually, one man with a rifle can be the one that maintains the state if he shoots the right person. Many men can multiply the effect manyfold.
Correct. This was before regulation became synonymous with backdoor legislation. That still is a corruption of the language.
Thanks, Phoenix. I can’t count the times I’ve explained that to ignorant democrats (I know…ignorant democrats is redundant.)
““Well-regulated” meant “well-trained””
and “well-trained” meant well-drilled within a militia under leadership.
Good luck joining a militia without ending up on a list
Honey bunny, you’re already on a list.
absolutely. or more accurately, there’s only one list – the list of the ones who are under their control. everyone not on the list will be eliminated at first opportunity.
(nod) that’s a separate issue. whatever you’re in, don’t post it.
I am well regulated. Always have a BM prior to using a firearm.
The uniparty will throw all gun owners under the bus just like they did to those of us refusing their vaccine poison .
We were right in our refusal to yield and comply then and we are now also .
They want us disarmed so they can kill us at their leisure by starvation , disease or just flat out murder !
so you’re still armed. good job. but acting alone you’ll still lose.
They don’t have to ban guns. They can just allow people to sue the gun manufacturers when something happens and bankrupt them all.
How do you push back on that?
Yeah, good point.
Even with all the guns already in circulation, I’d think that would reduce the amount of ammo available if the lawsuits were successful.
I know someone who is excellent in his knowledge & skill of gun-smithing (?? Whatever you call one who designs & makes guns). I’ve encouraged him to start his own business in this area but he refuses due to liability.
Hope you’re right that it won’t work. Not like this is the first time they’ve attacked 2A, but this time feels different. All this talk gives me anxiety.
The ammo issue will likely exist for as long as the radical left controls our government … all they have to continue doing is what b h o set in motion during his 8-year hate fest against US … he had every conceivable federal agency purchase every gun and round of ammunition available — more than 2,000,000,000 rounds of ammunition were taken off the market during that ruse — and, meanwhile, countless federal agencies that had never been issued guns now were (think Social Security, etc.) …
When Hillary was running on a 25% tax planned for guns and ammo, I really stocked up. Time to start buying again. When you can find it, Federal XM9001 is (unlabeled)+P 9mm hollowpoints for only a bit more than FMJ. Quality ammo properly stored is good for 50 years or more.
The only way to fight that would take time, but once the law is in place, you start using it to put out of business auto manufacturers, tool makers, drug companies, alcoholic beverage bottlers, and so on, plus food companies who sell sugar, meat, and other “poisonous” food products (adios, Frito-Lay!) In the meantime, if they start confiscation of existing arms, we do the same thing we did last time a government tried that. Lexington and Concord 2.0 coming up.
One if by land, two if by sea.
three if by internet?
That’s just one prong on this pitchfork aimed at We The People … another is the banks that refuse loans to firearms manufacturers … or even to those of US wishing to purchase firearms …
How to push back? So far this is just a future wet dream for leftists … we do need to continue to use the one crippled tool at our disposal — the ballot box — to make sure that folks pushing this agenda do not get into political office.
If the radical left gets its way with US and opens up firearms manufacturers to lawsuits for merely manufacturing and selling weapons, then that might just be ‘the blow that killed papa’ …
Remembering …
https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2022/06/06
For some reason, I’m kinda thinking those who are pushing this agenda aren’t even holding a political office. Just a hunch.
“How do you push back on that?”
as an individual, you can’t. which is why they’ve taught you to see “patriotism” and “well-regulated” as individualism.
the way you fight back is to organize and take back your nation.
Like we did when they shut down businesses, muzzled us, and locked us in our homes?
(nod) good point. but I’m not sure they could impose anything like that again. there was still a residual trust in “our elected government” that they were still us and would inherently look after everyone’s interests – but that is now so heavily eroded that it’s effectively gone. what will replace that trust and the resulting cohesion that our “leaders” exploited remains to be seen.
The Remington case was actually settled by the INSURANCE COMPANIES……no indemnification,no business!
I’ve contacted that polecat John Cornyn again and again. Usless. Voted against him in the last primary. Yesterday, I sent the message that if he’s going to just act like a democrat, I see no reason to vote for him ever. We must vote, however, and argue our position.
In the meantime, when Hillary was running on “assault weapons bans” I bought a bolt action Ruger Ranch Rifle in 5.56, so I’d still be able to use my 5,000 rounds of 5.56 after my AR was confiscated. OK, I can shoot that scoped bolt action 100 yards farther. Now lyin’ Biden wants to ban 9mm and hi cap magazines, so I’m going to buy a 7-round mag capacity Desert Eagle in .50 Action Express. I’ll cover part of the cost by selling my Glock 19 and Springfield Armory XDM-45 in private sales.
I wonder how the FBI would feel about using their new “powerful” 9mm’s against a .50 caliber?
they won’t. do you actually think this is going to be some kind of phyiscal fight? no, it won’t be. they’ll just cancel your bank accounts and credit cards and phone and net and power and water and deeds and licenses and then stand back waiting for you to go away.
I think that is the most likely strategy they’ll employ. Some will fold and give up their guns (and freedom). Others will be grateful to finally be free of the Beast system. Others will become the “man with nothing to lose.” Pick up a copy of Jack Hinson’s One Man War to see how that could play out. How those three categories portion out will determine how spicy (or not) things will get.
it used to be that “when seconds count the police are only minutes away.” now it’s “when seconds count the police are only an hour away.”
Or in many jurisdictions, they simply will not come. Plenty of cities now have departments that will not respond to burglaries, robberies, traffic accidents or auto theft. And remember, they are under absolutely no mandate of duty to protect YOU.
but you are under threat of legal action if you protect yourself.
and not just legal, but under threat of civil action too.
meanwhile the criminals are left to do as they please.