My Testimony on CT's Proposed Gun Bans
The reference I make to Dr. Angelo Codevilla is from his landmark piece: "America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution"
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16...
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16...
SOURCE URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1iJcBi_89M
I have officially re-christened thee - You-da-MAN-ia.
Hear! hear!
two things-1. you told them you were going to leave if they acted 2. I just loved the omelet metaphor!
Rock on!!! That was well thought out, direct, and utterly rational. I applaud you!!!!
Bravo!
Courage is the tool of the righteous. Not of the ignorant. Therefore, to stand up to evil, we must have the courage to do so. Just my .02 cents.
The hearing was totally pro forma, and everyone knew it.
My wife and I have our plans to move to WY already in place.
As we have lived in CT all our lives, we do winter and snow, so WY is good.
Too creepy!
Come on, New Hampshire is right up the road from you.
But even so, it is so infiltrated by Marxists that it is just a matter of time before it falls to the communists as well.
I have lived in New Hampshire before and I can assure you that it is not now what it once was. Even though there is a liberty stronghold there, it also is too infiltrated.
Why would I trade my location and not my situation?
Therefore, Wyoming.
If you have guns, experience with guns, like guns, believe you are safer with them than without them, have statistics and history on your side, recognize the benefit, you are a gun nut, extremist, who doesn’t care, even though you believe it saves innocent lives and we need guns, you are Wrong and Unenlightened!
But:
If you have no guns, little experience with guns, fear guns, believe you are safer without them, have no statistics or history on your side, are oblivious to the benefit, you are rational, moderate, you care, and regardless of the more bloody outcome you want guns banned. You are Righteous in your Brilliance!
Many Americans have died defending our liberties’ and our rights; the second amendment is among them.
http://www.nragive.com/ringoffreedom/ind...
Remember.
But the are about four different "working groups".
:-)
Just as Euda did, there must be a record. Conn is not the only state moving in this direction. This is the way to influence and fortify other US citizens in the philosophical fight. After all, isn't it ironic that the fight of the those who believe in the 2nd amend. are trying to influence with reason and the govt will influence by force.
You're correct. He won't be nervous, just focused and ready for the fight ahead. He's good like that :-)
Wow! Sniff... :-)
Ed
For my own benefit, could you please provide specific citations from my testimony where I summarized Dr. Codevilla's piece.
Also could you provide specific citations to your claim that Dr. Codevilla's piece is "full of pronouncements of localized, Christian-faith-enforced, anti-abortion, strike-down-Title II of the Civil Rights Bill-Country Class-counties".
Thank you.
I thinks it's a good name, though.. :-)
I would ask you watch the video again, and when you do, look beyond the subject of "guns", and consider that I am trying to plead reason to a group of government zealots who know that they will make instant criminals out of 500,000 of their constituents and not care... because those constituents are considered nothing more than unenlightened "soap box, pro-gun, chest puffing bluster"-ers.
500,000.
Overnight.
Comply, or go to jail.
In America.
Yes, that will get me a little passionate.
If you do satire and you're not pissing *someone* off, then you're doing it wrong. ;)
respectfully, UK has a higher violent crime rate than the US.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...
you aren't reaching utopia over there on your island any time soon :)
this is a matter of self defense. what best allows a 100 lb female to stop a 300lb male from attacking her?
I don't really think your "version of utopia" is naive. Rather, it's misguided. First, the idea of "utopia" is unachievable. Second, you can't define a society by tools. A gun is a tool. People use tools how they want.
I agree with your second statement
For the sake of clarity:
I am using abstract to mean an idea that doesn't refer to a defined thing in reality.
I am using concrete to mean a defined thing in reality.
Rand's definition of abstract ideas are "...conceptual integrations which subsume an incalculable number of concretes." PWNI
It was a tactful calling out 5/6ths of the very committee I was sitting before.
If you would like to know more about the terms "Ruling Class" and "Country Class" in the context I am using them, take some time to read the linked article to the piece by Codevilla. It is an excellent work, Codevilla is spot on in his assessment.
I did not expound on the issue at hand in the meeting because there had already been 18 straight hours of testimony on it, (I was one of the last to speak due to a really crappy lottery slot), and only 3 minutes were allowed per speaker.
However, the issue in a nutshell is that the Marxists in Connecticut, including the Legislature (Codevilla's "Ruling Class") have co-opted the horrific massacre at Newtown and are cynically using it as justification to push a ridiculous amount of bills on gun control, in a brute force attempt to see what they can slip past.
If all the bills were to pass, then *every* firearm except single shot, bolt action, hunting rifles would be outlawed and those rifles which were still allowed would have to be registered, permitted, and heavily regulated.
I know you probably didn't have any questions to begin with, but if you do have any which I haven't answered, I'd be happy to do so.
Also, classifying my mindset as confused is a cheap rhetorical trick. I have in no way demonstrated confusion.
(For clarity's sake, the above is sarcasm.)