Contro The Language, Control The Argument

Those who wish to disarm American citizens would seem to have a powerful ally as the debate moves forward. They have the vast majority of the media on their side. These are the people who choose how they will phrase the information they decide to report. In this case, they have chosen to apply the term “Assault” to the weapons they are seeking to ban.

You may be asking yourself why is that important?

Well, the reason is that the word “assault” is an emotionally charged word. Webster defines assault as: “a violent physical or verbal attack”. So as they choose to call these weapons assault weapons, they are positioning it in the listener’s mind as the aggressors weapon, thus cannot be a “defensive” weapon.

The other straw man the media and the anti-gunners prop up is that these are “military” weapons that should not be in military hands. This fallacious argument positions it in the listener’s mind that these weapons are designed for war. When in fact the actual military version of these weapons are capable of full automatic fire and are in fact, assault weapons. The true military assault weapons ARE banned from ownership by the general public.

The “military” style “assault” weapons that the anti-gunners’ are attempting to ban are neither military nor assault. They look like a military assault rifle but do not function like one. The operator must pull the trigger every time they wish to fire a round, as opposed to a military weapon capable of automatic fire where one pull of the trigger will initiate continuous fire until the trigger is released. This is tantamount to saying that you should charge insurance rates on a Volkswagen Beatle with a Ferrari kit on it the same insurance rate you would levy on a real Ferrari. While they may look a lot alike, they are, in fact, different.

By having the media in favor of disarming the American populace, they control the language a large portion of the populace uses, and thus are able to place those who disagree with them in a defensive position. In point of fact, the media and their cohorts in this argument are the ones who are actually conducting the assault. It is an assault on your rights.

As the old saying goes about fighting with the media, “Don’t pick a fight with someone who buys paper by the ton and ink by the barrel”. In this case though, it was those exact folks who picked the argument, not those of us who support the Second Amendment.

We are faced with trying to respond and defend against ad homonym attacks against gun ownership. Arguments such as, “these weapons are not necessary for hunting”, or “these are not for self-defense, these are military assault weapons” , or “why would you need more than 7 bullets to stop an intruder?”.

Those who are arguing against the second amendment are totally ignoring the premise upon which it is based, which is, so the citizens of this country would be able to defend themselves against a government that over reached its authority. One that placed onerous demands and regulations upon its citizens.

Those who support an all powerful central government don’t want the citizenry to be able to resist.

Or so it would seem to an old country boy.

A Look Behind The Liberal/Progressive Curtain

A LibPo (Liberal/Progressive) lets the curtain slip.

LibPo icon Piers Morgan let the curtain slip aside recently when he spoke with Christine Quinn, New York Mayoral candidate, on his CNN television program.

In his interview he told Ms. Quinn, Mr. Morgan espoused that “occasionally” people need a nanny state to make their decisions for them, as left to their own devices, they make bad choices. So naturally, these decisions should be left to our betters.

I wonder just how strongly Mr. Morgan would espouse this feeling if there were others in charge of our government and the government decided everyone should own a gun. Or maybe a different government might determine that everyone should contribute to the NRA. Or maybe the government would decide it is best if all pregnancies were carried to term. Would Mr. Morgan be as supportive of their being a nanny state government to make our decisions for us?

As normally is the case, it would be a matter of whose ox is being gored. But LibPos seldom consider the other side of the coin. They can never conceive of themselves as not being the ones in charge, because in their minds, they are always the smartest kids in the room. They feel that the rest of us are not smart enough to make our own decisions and thus we should leave these important matters to them. We should trust that they know what is best.

I am never in favor of one person being able to unilaterally determine the course of another individual’s behavior. NO ONE should have power over another individual’s Life, Liberty or Property without their consent! Period!

It is for this very reason that our Founding Fathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence:

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

I would postulate that when a government, any government, be it large or small, starts dictating individual’s personal behaviors, it has over stepped its bounds. It is at that point that the government should be over thrown. Luckily, our Founding Fathers set forth a manner to peacefully do this via the ballot box. It is not necessary for us to behave like some Banana Republic. A coup de ta is not necessary. We have the ability to change those making these onerous demands upon us on a regular basis. 2014 is the next such opportunity.

I’m afraid the old adage is true. “We get the government we deserve.”

In 2008, for whatever misguided reasons, a majority of Americans chose an individual who truly believes he is smarter than the rest of us and should make all our choices for us. In 2010, we put somewhat of a counter weight in place. In 2012, to my utter amazement, the majority of ballots cast (note how I’m saying ballots cast not necessarily the majority of legal voters) were for the same individual who believes he should be making all the decisions. That we can’t choose our own course.

I certainly hope that 2014 will change the direction of this country and that the LibPos won’t have driven us so far into the weeds that we can’t find our way back.

Or so it would seem to an old farm boy.

A Root Cause Of American Decline

Oh my god! If you weren't aware of it all ready (clearly you have been on extended trip out of the solar system), here is prof positive that our country has turned into Bazarro World!

Three teens in Florida, tackle another teen who is pointing a loaded gun at yet another teen, at point blank range. They wrestle the loaded gun away from him and undoubtedly save a minimum of one and quite possibly more lives! And what do these heroic students get from the school for their efforts?

SUSPENSION!

That's right. All three were immediately suspended by there school!

And "Why" you might ask, would students doing the right thing at risk of their own life and health, be suspended?

According to school "policy" they were involved in an incident involving a gun.

Hello!

School!

These boys weren't the ones who introduced the gun into the situation! They were the ones REMOVING the gun from the situation!

In fact, if these kids had been to a government school the day they showed the DHS sponsored film produced by the city of Houston, they did exactly what the government says to do.

Run, Hide, Fight!

According to our federal government's Department of Homeland Security, when faced with an active shooter you should RUN if you can, HIDE if you can't, and FIGHT if options one and two won't work. http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=5VcSwejU2D0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D5VcSwejU2D0

These boys were on a bus with one boy threatening to shoot another. Note the word "bus". Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. They did the right thing! (Actually, I'd say they did the right thing even if options one and two were available to them.)

We here all the time about how something bad happens and no one does a thing to help and we decry our civilization's uncaringness for others. All the while wondering "How did our country ever devolve to such a state?"

Well this case is exhibit number one.

Our schools are teaching our young to become uninvolved drones!

What is the real lesson being taught to our kids here? If you get involved and stop a terrible thing from happening you will be punished! If you do nothing, the system will not punish you. Negative reinforcement will be withheld! Removal of a negative is felt to be a positive, particularly in the young. The system is teaching our young that uninvolvement is the right course of action.

I put it to you that our lily livered educators (which have been taught this behavior by many folks who were 60's draft dodgers themselves) are the root cause of many of our society's current ills.

This country needs an immediate and drastic change of course in what we are teaching our young. We could do without many, if not ALL, of the touchy feely sensitivity crap our schools waste time and money on and return to some serious civics instruction! Teaching our kids what it should mean to be an American! Not some neutered world citizen view!

Or so it would seem to an old farm boy.

Here is a link to the story this is based on: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/02/high-school-student-disarms-gunman-gets-suspended/