That’s Right Nate

Will we surrender the rights that old-timey people like this fought so hard to defend?

It was like Martin Luther King’s famous March on Washington, but with guns.  Literally dozens of conservative second amendment activists marched in Virginia where open carry  is legal to let the government in Washington, DC know that they would not be ignored.   Said protester Robert  Cooper, “A lot of the time people think of us as quiet types who keep to ourselves, but that’s not true.  I’m on the HAM Radio most every night and I know some of these guys have wi-fi in their bomb shelters.  It’s time we stand together and be counted.”

“We’re in a war. The other side knows they are at war, because they started it,” said Larry Pratt, president of the Gun Owners of America. “They are coming for our freedom, for our money, for our kids, for our property. They are coming for everything because they are a bunch of socialists.”

Rep. Paul Broun, R-Georgia, said “we must declare war against oppression and against socialism, and you are the people to do that” adding that he was in no way advocating violence and it was merely a coincidence that the rally was held on the anniversary of Timothy McVeigh’s attack on the Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Rally members were naturally on edge that any moment martial law could be declared and they could have their guns confiscated and be put in detention caps.  One thing’s for sure, those socialist baby stealers will think twice about messing with these brave patriots whether they drink their own urine or not.

On Thursday, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed a law permitting Indiana residents to bring their beloved firearms to work.   The law which takes effect July 1, showed broad support in clearing the Indiana House 74-20 and the state Senate 41-9.  I am glad to finally see second amendment rights being extended to those Hoosiers who choose to work for a living.  However, this legislation is still flawed.

Unfortunately, some employers employers including schools, child care centers, domestic violence shelters, and some utilities and chemical plants are exempted from having to give their workers second amendment rights on the job.   Daniels himself suggested lawmakers in the future might want to clean up some “ambiguities” in the law that prohibit 100% of all employees from having their rights.

This still doesn’t go far enough.  Half of the fun of having a gun is keeping it out of sight, but close at hand.   The current law will require employees to keep their guns locked in their cars.   That seems to defeat the whole point of having a gun.   If you want to clean your firearm on your lunch break you actually have to  go out to the parking lot like a smoker or something.

There are all sorts of benefits to employers who do allowed concealed carry.  The increased productivity of workers who don’t make eye contact at the water cooler could save a medium sized company thousands of dollars per year.   Meanwhile, customer service speed will increase when complainers know that the person they’re talking to knows where they live and is packing.  When our founding fathers wrote the Constitution they recognized how important the right to sneak a gun into the office is to a healthy functioning democracy.  Let’s honor them by giving these rights to all employees.

I am so proud of my fellow gun owners for their united opposition to Obama’s health care proposals.   The Gun Owners of America group recently warned it’s 300,000 members that if the health care bill passes, the government could declare citizens medically unfit to carry a gun.   This is the same thing Hitler and the communists did, when we take away the rights of the mentally unbalanced to own firearms simply because they may have issues with rage or paranoia or may pose a threat to themselves or others, we lose our second amendment rights.   Executive Director of the group Larry Pratt called for resistance saying, “you end up having a gazillion people lose their gun rights because of some medical record that someone doesn’t like, where they say, ‘Oh, that might be a danger to their self or others.”

I cannot abide having these hard earned rights taken away from my fellow countrymen simply because they’re mentally unbalanced.   President James A. Garfield gave his life protecting the rights of the mentally unhinged to own firearms.   He was fatally shot by Charles Guiteau on July 2, 1881 when his assassin decided that God had commanded him to kill the ungrateful president who refused to hire him.   There are hundreds of thousands of people like me inspired by Garfield’s sacrifice who will not let it be in vain by taking away gun rights for the criminally insane.

The other reason that gun owners like myself oppose any kind of health care reform is because as private citizens we have to pay for not only a gun, but also for ammunition for that gun.  If we shoot somebody, it hardly seems fair that our tax dollars also pay to treat them for that gun shot wound.  In fact, since the reason you shoot somebody is to do harm to them, many of us would just as soon that the person we shoot not be able to get medical care in the first place.

Unfortunately, since the days of the Old West, medicine has improved greatly.   In those days, a belly shot was almost a sure death sentence.  Today, doctor’s are able to do a remarkable number of things to treat gun shot wounds and unfortunately, gun manufacturers have simply not kept up, especially in the area of causing infection.   This is definitely a call for both gun and ammunition manufacturers to step up their games.   If all gun shot wounds can be easily treated, do we really have the right to bear arms.

This we saw another casualty of the teacher unions and the bloated educational bureacracy in this country.  An 8 year old Arizona boy was charged with premeditated murder after he shot and killed his father and another man with a .22 caliber rifle methodically stopping and reloading as he killed them.

This is hot on the heels of the case of another 8 year old boy from Massachusetts who shot himself in the head while firing an uzi.  Now, from everything we have heard this Arizona boy was well adjusted and not a discipline problem.  His father tried to do all he could by teaching him to shoot prarie dogs, but how is a working parent supposed to have enough time to teach his child about proper gun safety including that you never ever point a gun at another person and shoot them.  This is the job of our schools and it is a job they are neglecting.

Fortunately, since the boy is 8 he can be charged as an adult in Arizona and not coddled by juvenile justice, but this tragedy should never have happenned in the first place.  Firearm safety is as important to our children’s future as math or reading and if scholars are right about this being the end times maybe moreso.  Until we start holding school boards responsible for making sure that every 8 year old in this country is able to properly care for and safely fire a gun we are all at risk.  While some parents might opt for homeschooling I really believe that children gain more responsibility by handling firearms around other children–something that parents simply cannot provide as readily.  Let us begin to demand more of our schools.  Let’s hold them accountable so that tragedies like this do not happen again.

I had to think long and hard about whether I would post this or not because I did not want to sensationalize a child’s death.  However, I was saddened to hear about the senseless loss of life and I thought something must be said.  An 8-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at a gun fair.  The boy lost control of the weapon while firing it Sunday at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the Westfield, Massachusetts Sportsman’s Club, Police Lt. Lawrence Valliere said.

This was the boy’s first time firing an uzi.  This should never have happenned.  When are the schools going to start dealing with gun safety.  If he had begun with small caliber handguns in first grade when he should have, by the time he would have been fully experienced in firing submachine guns by the time he was 8.

Unfortunately, the boy lived in Massachusetts where liberals refuse to fund and legislate an adequate fire arms training curriculum in the public schools.  How many more senseless accidents will there be before politicians get serious about this?  If our children do not have firearm training, how are they supposed to defend themselves against predators who outweigh them by 100 or 150 pounds?  Let’s get serious about education and stop leaving children behind from gun safety.

In 2007, Rabid Gun Control Freak Senator Frank Launtenberg (D-NJ) tried to further infringe on the Constitution by introducing legislation allowing the Justice Department to prohibit gun sales to terrorism suspects.

Stepping forward was defender of the second amendment and now McCain’s top foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann. As a lobbyist for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Scheunemann knew that in this country people are innocent until proven guilty and for some people nothing would help them more through the trauma of being mistakenly charged with terrorism than an afternoon of hunting.

The problem is if we take guns away from the people wrongly accused of being terrorists, the only people who will have guns will be the actual terrorists. Scheunemann made it clear that he has advised McCain on matters of gun rights so I have no doubt with McCain in charge that no terrorism suspect will be deprived their constitutional right to bear arms without due process. As a former POW, nobody knows more about what being deprived of rights is like than John McCain.

If Lincoln had been armed, would this have happened?

We really drove today.  We had a spur of the moment idea and went two hours out of Louisville to Hodgenville Kentucky and the birthplace of Lincoln.  I LOVED IT!!  Lincoln has never, been one of my favorite Presidents because I think the civil war would have been avoidable if we had simply let the free market end slavery of its own economic failure.  However, the gift shop was awesome.  I picked up a Hillibilly toothbrush, a Hillbilly calendar, a confederate shot glass, and 3 wooden guns stamped with the Lincoln Birthplace logo.  I really thought they’d stay away from guns in a place honoring Lincoln, but guns and Johnny Reb were clearly in abundance.  It was terrific seeing them give equal weight to both confederate and union points of views…in the gift shop anyway.

The similiarities between McCain and Robert E. Lee were very clear.  Both being career military men from Virginia who are willing to fight for causes they don’t believe in for the good of the country is a very inspiring symbol.  Especially, the way they have both stood up to a man who is great at making speeches, but may not be acting in the country’s interests.

McKinley was less impressive.  I loved the animatronics and the memorial outside is awe inspiriing.  However, the museum is shared with, among others, the museum of broken down trucks.  I also was hoping to pick up another souevenir gun for a friend’s kid, but even though McKinley like Lincoln was shot, they didn’t really have much.  We’re in Canton now and tomorrow we’ll be in Grand Rapids.  At some point I need to post more about the liberal bias in Batman.  Unfortunately, the movie seems very successful and it isn’t clear that a That’s Right Nate boycott could derail it the same way it did Stoploss.

There has been a lot of fuss lately about John McCain never leading troops in combat.  The arguement put forth by General Wesley Clark was that getting shot down wasn’t a qualification for being President.  I strongly disagree.  Some of this country’s finest Presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Ronald Reagan were shot.  Surely Mister Clark, they may not be Barack Obama, but I hope you will give them some credit for the job they did.

I was no big fan of his, but Martin Luther King was shot too as were Pat Tillman, Stonewall Jackson, and Benny Goodman.  I believe all of them had strong leadership qualities.  Face it, if Barack Obama were shot while running for President the mainstream press would call him the greatest American of our generation.

In the Natural, being shot helped make Roy Hobbs “the best there ever was”.  Maybe it has done the same for John McCain.  Let’s all help him knock one out of the park this November.

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