Why We Need The 2nd Amendment

Because it can happen here?

I never would have believed it, but unfortunately, these days I think it could in some form. It's already a soft tyranny.

Comments

[Dan Riehl]

"Mr. Riehl, any way to put "slide" back in the tube?"

Nah, hard to have fun without the lubricant, er, entertainment.

[Bob]

"Firstly, one has the freedom to speak, to publish, to assemble in Peace and to redress. That take a lot of pressure off by permitting ideas to be hashed-out.

Secondly, if and only if aggressive tyranny begins imposition, such action will be mightily expensive.

The point being, we will see you guys at the polls. Good luck to your (dwindling) team, cuz you are skrood, man. Phuk-ked big-time..."

But I think even your post shows that there IS a certain consistency to what's going on with your side. Conservatives are in a position where their ideas carry little weight any more. We tried it your way for the previous eight years and basically came up empty handed. Nothing really worked, no significant problems were solved, and we're worse off by every measure than we were at the end of the Clinton administration.

Without having any serious ideas to express and little way to make anything real happen, you're all left to essentially act-out. So what we get are various kinds of tough talk, like veiled threats of violence via your "2nd Amendment rights," pompous-sounding but meaningless discourses about the Constitution, and pretending that any liberal is scared of anything Republican right now. We get childish taunting like, "you are skrood, man. Phuk-ked big-time..." Being circumspect enough to not take the tough talk at face value, it reads to the rest of us like a the empty bluster and juvenile fantasizing that it is.

[Ran]

"We tried it your way for the previous eight years and basically came up empty handed."

Right and wrong. Bush is a squish hated today by conservatives and libertarians alike for his lack of core. Yeah, came up empty handed. At least Cheney kept us safe. But what went on was maddeningly NOT conservatism, and it alienated the base. Or weren't you paying attention in '04, '06 and '08??

"you are skrood, man. Phuk-ked big-time..." THAT's a taunt? [rolls eyes] Lighten up Bob. It's deliberately over the top, or did you not notice the, um, spelling? (Damn public schools... Hey, try HyperDictionary.com)

Look, Bob, if you don't like me being pompous, then do your [removed] homework. You obviously know [zilch] about the constitution or the history of the revolution, [removed]. 'Till then, see you at the polls. (You're so skuh-rood, baby, so SO sqroooowd...)

[rubs hands. evil grin.]

[Bob]

"THAT's a taunt? [rolls eyes] Lighten up Bob. It's deliberately over the top, or did you not notice the, um, spelling?"

Sorry, Ran. It's just that around here, it's often hard to know where unintentional self-parody ends, and intentional irony begins. I'll be sure to keep in mind that you've actually got a sense of humor. Do you remember the old Warner Bros. cartoons, with the Texas rooster character Foghorn Leghorn? He was always having to berate his nerdy little nephew (the one with the slide rule) with his stock phrase, "That's a joke son! A JOKE!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwnwbG9YLE