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Lawyer Who Wiped Out D.C. Ban Says It's About Liberties, Not Guns


By Paul Duggan
Meet the lawyer who conceived the lawsuit that gutted the District's tough gun-control statute this month. Meet the lawyer who recruited a group of strangers to sue the city and bankrolled their successful litigation out of his own pocket.
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Howdy all,

Hope you found the piece to be interesting.

While the article is good news, I had to quit reading the letters/commentary following it. If there was ever an indicator that there is little or no hope of a dialogue with the "Aunties", their responses nail the case shut. As well, that demographic appears to have a lock on poor grammar, misspelling, inability to reason, and a huge ignorance of firearms and firearms owners.

I am thinking that that the resources of the 'Net will have to be used to saturate every firearm board and every forum with one worldwide message to attempt a 'mailing list' that unites -- or attempts to unite -- the casual gun owner with the concerned gun owner into a network for civil protests, demonstrations, picketing, and the all appurtenances of media clout that the "aunties" enjoy gratis from their ready made allies.

The present gun rights folks do a good job with few resources, but just keep the fire warm for the faithful. There needs to be made a spark, jolt, electrifying current that sweeps the gun boards worldwide, identifies the enemy, identifies the leaders, where they reside, where they work, with whom they are connected, what organizations feed and protect them, who runs said orgs, who is on the board, where do they live, and in general take the issue to the door of their building, their door step, their neighborhood, and put the spot light directly on them -- as people who believe that humans have no right to self defense.

Read the commentary at the Post article as far as your sense of nausea will allow, and then reflect a bit. These are the people who believe that they have a right to live in a fantasy land that will never happen, imposed upon the rest of us at the expense of our lives.

Is it "enough, already"?

Pretty big wish list, eh? ;~`)

John

The FACT -- and it certainly is a fact -- that the WORD "gun" isn't on the "allowed vocabulary" list of many organizations is an atrocity.

This alone should wake up any who aren't dead.

Political "correctness" began with the reasonable concept of avoiding unnecessary offense created by widely-objectionable slurs.

BUT, it soon grew to become the main implementation tool of the thought police. Hitler would smile with admiration of their effectiveness.

Dear John:

When I wrote yesterday's "OT-Forest Triumph" I was thinking of the difference between the NRA and what ordinary forest families achieved against the fiercest government and industry opposition.

Comparisons are odious, I know, but we always talk seriously to each other. There can be no spark, no advance across the barricades until we stop demonizing, categorizing, polarizing ourselves as dems, liberals, neocons, etc.

I can think of no better time in the United States than now to build coalitions around notions of liberty. To succeed you should have at least footholds in all the influential camps. The shooting sports should re-brand.

One shoe doesn't fit all. What works in one half of Nova Scotia for social and natural resource development doesn't work in the other. Education for real values should advance on the broadest front. Superb leaders are key.

Identifying the opposition is paramount, as you say. The road back requires a re-assessment of reality. People change their minds, demonstrated by current US public opinion and Congressional deliberations. Narrow political partisanship is poison.

Hammering the Aunties directly won't get you there. There are more of them and they want it more. The West's surpassing firepower and technology isn't making much headway against part-time guerillas with AK47s.

The whole stately edifice of civil rights in the United States came from moral suasion, coalitions, keeping old enemies close, building bridges, 40 years ago. My personal view, as you know, is that America always gets it right over time.

Anyway, these are my thoughts about your appeal this morning, John.

Kind regards, King

Better example: the Washington lawyer did it with strangers and little money because he hit the right chord: liberty. I'll bet there are more Aunties who abhor word police and censorship than there are in our whole tribe put together. Isn't that, in effect, how the lawyer won it? His approach is worth exploiting. We do know that with current tactics, we're retreating. Sorry to hog the line.

Thanks for the ideas and encouragement, King.

Back to the garret.