Vanderboegh Vindicated
Over at the Bitch Girls:
A hunter who was checking into a Denver hotel yesterday before his trip to Africa was arrested for “unlawfully” carrying a gun - in rifle cases safely. Unfortunately, Democrats are staying in the hotel. So the cops hauled him off and only released him after he posted $10,000.
He is being investigated to see if his rifles have dangerous features - like a scope.
I started to respond in comments there, but it grew, so I’m making a full post of it here.
There was that big Mike Vanderboegh brouhaha a couple of weeks ago, about how citizens standing their ground for their right to keep and bear made us all look like crazed loons. (The big thread was over at Snowflakes in Hell, but that site’s down at the moment. I’ll put the link in when I can confirm it.)
This proves Vanderboegh was bang on: Those who want to take our rights away from us already think we’re dangerous lunatics.
Is it time to march on statehouses, courthouses, and Congress? Time to man the barricades? Time to openly revolt?
No, of course not quite yet.
It is, however, time for individuals to simply stand for themselves and say “No”. to make “cold dead hands” more than a slogan.
Now, I pray I will not be faced with this choice any time soon, but I pray that if I am, I will be able to take one or two jackboots with me.
I probably won’t, of course, because I doubt I’ll be given the opportunity to so much as flick off the safety. And if I am, I seriously doubt I’ll be able to bring myself to actually shoot another human being, as much as my freedom might depend on it.
That’s one of the problems here: on the battle field, a new recruit can depend on the veterans to fight for a volley or two while he gets his wits and his courage together, and overcomes his natural reluctance to kill. In a hotel lobby surrounded by non-combatants, with your guns all in cases, or during what seems to be a routine traffic stop, or in your bedroom at three a.m., you simply do not have the luxury of even a second’s hesitation, or the example of more experienced soldiers around you. And you know, absolutely, that you will die in the encounter, that you will never have the chance to argue in defense of your actions.
That’s hard, and when that starts happening, it’s going to be up to us to pile on in defense of our fallen comrades, and not spurn their corpses because they failed to follow the enemy’s rules of engagement to the letter.
In this case, Calanchini threatened NO ONE. He just wanted a room, a shower, a meal and a bed. His greatest crime was that he didn’t care enough about politics to know that a Big Important For His Own Damn Good Democratic Convention was in town, or that the particular hotel he choose had been taken over by by people who hate him and think he’s the crazy one.
I mean, Christ, he had GUNS! Plural, guns! Including handguns! Of course he’s dangerous bad crazy! Think of all the children he could have killed! Or Democrats, same thing!
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This stands as a warning to all the Fudds and Zumbos out there. Just because you’re a hunter, doesn’t mean you can afford to think you’re above the fray. The grabbers absolutely want your guns too, and you with them. To them, you are as crazy and as dangerous as we are.
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Meanwhile, Muslim terrorists, real crazies who, so far beyond standing their ground and fighting back, deliberately kill innocents, are deferred and kowtowed to at every opportunity.
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Uncle points out, “This isn’t going to help Democrats appeal to the gun owner demographic.”
No, but then, they never really wanted to. This simply confirms which demographic they are appealing to.
Tags: Calanchin, Vanderboegh