http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/saf-launches-equal-gun-rights-campaign?cid=db_articles<\/a><\/p>\nThe gun is a force multiplier. As has been noted in this blog more than once, it allows a handful of beleaguered black Americans to fend off larger numbers of Klansmen.<\/p>\n
The gun allows the righteous few to hold their own against many who are doing violent wrong. Do a Google search for Elfego Baca. Wise modern gun experts from Don Kates to Tamara Keel have pointed out that if you want to know how warm and fuzzy it would be to have a world without guns, you have only to look back to the outlawry and oppression of the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n
The gun allows the female of our species \u2013 generally smaller and lighter, and always with proportionately less upper body strength and less cultural predispositioning to using physical force \u2013 to defeat men attempting to rape her.\u00a0 The modern feminist version of the Old West saying about Colonel Colt and equality is the popular tee-shirt slogan that says, \u201cGod made men and women equal\u2026and Smith & Wesson keeps them that way.\u201d I remember one of my graduates who confronted a burglar in her home. She drew her gun and snapped, \u201cDon\u2019t move!\u201d He came at her. She shot him in one of his upper limbs. He came at her again.\u00a0 She shot him dead with a bullet to center chest. The shooting was, of course, ruled justified. To this day, I shudder to think what this aggressor would have done to her if she hadn\u2019t had her SIG-Sauer.<\/p>\n
The gun allows the poor and powerless to protect themselves as well as the rich and powerful. It is axiomatic in our country that any citizen should be able to become President. A poor kid raised by his grandparents recently did so, and got re-elected.\u00a0 He and his family are surrounded by Secret Service agents with high cartridge capacity firearms. Us ordinary po\u2019 folks don\u2019t have heavily armed security guards provided by taxpayer funding to guard us and our families like Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, or Michael Bloomberg.\u00a0 How sad and ironic that the poor kid who grew up to be President doesn\u2019t want your potential-future-President kids to be protected as his own potential-future-President children are.<\/p>\n
Equality. Freedom. Guns.<\/p>\n
Yes, they all do<\/i> belong in the same sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The gun has long been called an equalizer.\u00a0 As in, \u201cGod made men, and Colonel Colt made them equal.\u201d My friends and colleagues at the Second Amendment Foundation have a new push for this theme: see it here. http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/saf-launches-equal-gun-rights-campaign?cid=db_articles The gun is a force multiplier. As has been noted in this blog more than once, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}