Decide Who You Are

I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I just want to watch the Dog Whisperer...

But I just had an experience in my local gun shop I want to share. It's infuriating and scary.

Some poor guy was in there talking about all the unregistered guns he had (!) because he bought them so long ago. Some of them are now illegal because of intrusive, illegal, unconstitutional regulatory "infringement" of our right to keep and bear arms that have been passed into "law" since he bought them.

(I realize I am an absolutist on that. I used to think "reasonable regulation" mean just that. I've learned better. The best way to stop a criminal with a gun is to kill him with your gun. No amount of "reasonable regulation" is going to keep him or some crazy motherfucker from getting a gun if he wants one. So "regulation" because of mental instability or criminal history is just a "feel-good" sop to Liberal nincompoops, and serves only to limit the ability of the law-abiding to exercise their "uninfringed" right to keep....etc. That's all I have to say about that, and I will entertain no discussion of it. It's stupid, purposeless and futile, and it just pisses me off.)

Anyway, getting back to my story. This incipient law abider was asking what to do to make his guns "legal", and the kindly gun store owner was telling him...and a very complicated discussion it was. I finally couldn't stand it, and I interrupted and told the guy to not do anything, lock them all up, and keep the extended mags, and the various other felonies quiet..."until the revolution". The way I see it, since they're not registered, and if he's not advertising them, there's no reason for any jackbooted thug to come looking.

Just SHUT UP. Keep your powder dry....and buy a few "legal guns" that you can shoot for fun and profit in California.

Well, this prompted a discussion that revealed the degree to which the supposed "gun-guys" were slaves to regulation. Now, I understand that a guy running a gun store has to say all the right stuff, but it got way past that, cause we're friends, and the discussion ranged beyond that into "what to do when the shit hits the fan and the government decides to confiscate your guns".

I said it was something that every gun owner, especially Californian had to think about, and decide, beforehand...what his response would be. Decide. Plan. Commit.

I've done that. If they come to take my guns, I will shoot them. Cops, ATF, FBI...whatever.

Oh, I will die. But, goddamit, I'll fucking die FREE.

Of course, that only applies if I'm not paying attention, or they make the move before I'm prepared...as in gettin the hell out of Dodge before it comes to that.

But if we're very unlucky, unlike now, other states in the not too distant future, unless Montana, and the several who have passed their secessionist resolutions really meant it...won't be any safer from the Federal Gun Grab that ShamBama and the Fascists clearly have in mind.

They're already making noises about it. I'm expecting a report from a friend any time now with some of the details that are coming out. I know about HB 45. If that's all they've got, they're going, for the moment beyond what this supreme court will allow, so I think it's cool...but you and I both know they' won't stop until they get what they want....or until WE STOP THEM.

Anyway...

The response to my scenario by one of the sales guys (who we'll call James) was that "They won't confiscate the guns, but they might ban them; but we'll already have ours so it won't affect the guns you already own."

Now, nevermind the simpleminded faith in the toothfairy this guy is demonstrating...let's think about what he said, and assume for the moment that it was exactly true.

What the hell kind of attitude is that? "I've got mine, fuck you!" Sorry, I don't roll that way.

When I called him on it, he got defensive, and tried to pawn it off on other gun owners he knows...as though he wasn't saying it, he was just quoting others. Liberals, to be precise.

Yu-huh. He described some guy he knew who thought it was perfectly okay to forbid the owning of guns in government "projects"...because "they don't need guns". Then James described how he defended the rights of single mothers in the projects with the pimps and drug-dealers, yadda yadda....and I stopped him...at which he got angry...

...to tell him you don't have to give a bunch of reasons, WHY the woman in the projects needs a gun. Need is not the issue. THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

I don't care if she "needs" it. I don't care if somebody thinks she "doesn't need" it. Completely irrelevant. Need does not appear in the Constitution. There is no "needs standard", and I wanted to get James to understand that to engage in that sort of discussion and argument is to invite all sorts of irrelevant bullshit into the conversation.

"Need", "community safety", "government owned housing"....are all irrelevant. Period. They have no place in the dialogue. It's a distraction that anti-gunners use to get us all entangled in defensive, strawman arguments that they then do their best to shoot down, and if we let them, consider themselves to have won the argument FOR GUN CONTROL.

I don't care of the woman is 4 foot 10 and 90 lbs, or a 6 foot 2 and a karate black belt. I don't care if she's got a personal body guard, or if she's got twins on welfare.

The Second Amendment applies to every citizen. You don't have to prove you need a gun; you don't have to convince someone it's necessary or justify it in any way...

And any government that makes you do so is OUTLAW, and is violating the Constitution.

(Did I mention I don't care what the Supreme Court has to say about it? That's just another bad, crazy, dark alley gun grabbers want to take us down and then mug us. I can read. And the 2nd Amendment has very small words.)

And to see "gun-guys" engaging in this sort of wrong-headed bullshit just drives me nuts.

It's got to stop. Either we defend the Second Amendment full tilt boogie, without exception...just like it was friggin' written; either we believe it and we're serious, or we're just weenies playing with guns when Aunt Nanny lets us. And we're just lick-spittles who will do whatever we're told...and puff ourselves right up and think we're just fine and dandy if Nanny doesn't spank us for stuff the new kids get punished for.

These are serious, maybe desperate times. We can't afford sloppy, slipshod, feeble, wishful thinking.

Thank you for letting me get this out of my system.

Oh, buy the way, did I mention I picked up another Glock? I'm keeping it simple: 9mm and .45 handguns. Ammo is easier to hoard that way. *grin*

The Gunslinger