January 16, 2013 marks a very important day in the liberty movement in my eyes. Yesterday I saw what a lot of people knew was going to happen come to fruition. We saw sweeping executive action against not the 2nd amendment, but the meaning and interpretation of the 2nd amendment; the right to defend oneself with a firearm against those that would pose a threat to the lives of us or our family. Some may say that a larger than 10 round magazine isn't needed to defend one's life. Well, the easiest answer to digest for those people is that you will not believe in that 11th round's purpose until you have fired that 10th round and hear the loudest sound ever heard; "click".
You see, when in a gun fight there are no rules despite what some tactical ninjas may say. If a person who wishes to do you harm has the means and the opportunity they will do whatever they have to do to get to whatever goal they have in mind for you and your family. If that means they will kick in your front door at 3:00 am because they didn't bother to look up how to pick a lock on YouTube they will kick that door in because the end will always justify the means in that person's mind that wishes to do you harm. If you slam up and out of your bed, grab your Glock limited to 10 rounds, chamber a round if needed, turn on your super duper tactical 4,000,000 lumen light, and start to head down that hallway to investigate, you may be met with one person picking up your flatscreen off of the table or you may be met with multiple people armed with "illegal" guns that hold more than 10 rounds because they bought them off the black market or stole them from the guy down the street; remember that the end will justify the means to a criminal. Those assailants may just simply want to rob your house or they may have something more medieval in mind and you aren't met with a single dolt trying to gank your T.V. but instead are slapped fully awake by the crack and flash of gunfire in your direction from multiple sources. In that moment, the means that you can deploy are essential to help keep the "end" (your family) safe from harm.
To the point, this musing isn't about what to do in a home invasion situation. There are far more qualified and experienced individuals to learn those tactics from. This blog is about those Americans that didn't think that those god given rights to defend yourself and your family would be challenged. This blog is about those sunshine patriots that instead of preserving liberty on all fronts picked and chose the liberties that they were most comfortable with loosing and voted to make it so. Now, on the eve of the most massive threat of gun control those people, those sunshine patriots are squirming big time! Yes, I am speaking to those who chose to support the mainstream media's pick in Mitt Romney as their choice for president. While we will never know what a Romney presidency would have revealed in leu of the tragedy at Sandy Hook on gun control we are left thinking not of what he would have done but those liberties passed up and pissed away before the 2012 elections that led to this point. Simply put, a President Johnson or a President Paul, would have undoubtably stayed firm in their conviction to liberty. There would not have been a knee jerk reaction in legislative action or executive orders. There would not have been a run on guns of all sorts and ammo. There would not have been price gouging for normal capacity (30 round mags are indeed normal capacity, not high capacity, for the AR-15 and M4 variant rifles) magazines in the market.
Embracing liberty for all, not just yourself is a keystone of freedom and standing up for everyone's god given rights is essential whether you were using yours or not. The American people have sold their freedoms down the river of statism long ago before all of this talk about gun control. Where were you newly born "patriots" when the Patriot Act was signed? Where were you gun nuts when the congress was passing the NDAA in the middle of the night? Where were the "staunch" conservatives when the 4th amendment was obliterated by the TSA? I will tell you where you folks were, on the fence enjoying the chains that were encircling you softly and caressing you with the notion of security.
The facts are that those crazy lunatics that supported candidates like Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, Justin Amash, Ted Cruz, etc. were correct all along. Those people saw the sewings of a tyranny and they were dismissed as unamerican or not supporting the troops or whatever garbage the republican party and fox news drummed up against them. Still, the grand old party invented a glistening smile, a flannel shirt coupled with "mom jeans", and a finely speckled salt and pepper hair cut, and called it Mitt Romney. To those associated with the Ron Paul movement he was quickly dismantled for his stance on the federal reserve, continued war, and limp wrist 2nd amendment support being from a state that has magazine capacity laws.
So, here is to all of you libertarian hipsters. You guys and gals saw it coming and cried at the top your lungs that a nation and party that stands for only some of the principals that it espouses will be doomed to fail in an election year that saw a total voter turnout of roughly 120 million votes cast compared to a population of over 300 million. To those libertarian hipsters that recognized the disenfranchisement of millions of Americans due to the orgy of morally and politically corrupt policies of their political parties and tried like hell to put out the message that liberty is the most gravitating force in the history of man and that to ignore or pick and choose which liberties you wish to use, "Thank you libertarian hipsters!"
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