Wednesday, July 25, 2012

For every movement, a theme song...

“But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers and not in the hands of crooks. They belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities,” - Barack Obama - July 25, 2012

Mr. Obama, I believe the community of presently law-abiding gun-owners has a response for you... a theme song, if you will...



We are DONE with compromise. We are done with ending with the crumbs of what was once a beautiful and desirable cake. We are done selling out cheap.

We want our rights, and we bloody well want them all. We are coming for you in the courts. We are coming for you in the legislatures and the halls of Congress. And we are coming for you at the ballot box. We hope those efforts are sufficient to make the necessary change.

We are tired of decades of mealy-mouthed apologists denigrating our nation while claiming to lead us. We are tired of being insulted by elitists and dictated to by theocrats. We are a free people with a heritage of freedom and while, as a nation, we've not always gotten it right - we've far more to be proud of than ashamed of and despite our failings, done better at taking care of and respecting our people than any other nation on earth during our brief national history.

In short, we're not playing the appeasement game anymore. We're playing to win. And while the issue of today is Second Amendment rights, you can expect the same fierceness on freedom of expression, the right to marry, and the laundry list of civil rights ill-advisedly limited and corrupted over the decades.

We're done playing your game. We're ready to play ours.

2 comments:

Phssthpok said...

I recall a comment I read some years back regarding the massive buy-up after the passage of AWB-94:

"You didn't think those people were buying all those guns to hand them in, did you?"

Diamond Mair said...

I FINALLY received my CHL 2 days before this post ................ place I took the class was having their grand opening, & I got to meet R. Lee Ermey .................;-)

You're doing some channeling of Ben Franklin there - GOOD JOB!

Any chance you're going to make it to the NRA deal here in the Houston area next year? I'm locating all kinds of ranges ................... ;-)

Semper Fi'
DM