George Rebane
The role of public employee unions in the sacking of America has long been denied by the socialists. This is the political crowd that is regularly elected to office through the support of these same labor organizations. They are the closest thing the left has to a franchised criminal class in our society. Their extortions and fraudulent practices over the decades have become legend. My own position on such organizations is well known to RR readers (latest here).
Now, thanks to a mid-western governor attempting to save his state from fiscal ruin, the entire question of how the public unions have bilked the populace may get a proper hearing. My hope is that the union bosses and their political lapdogs will spread their demonstrations across the land. Then all will be able to see what has been festering under their local state house or county administration center. For more see Steven Malaga’s ‘The Showdown Over Public Union Power’.
If Second Amendment rights were not such a serious matter, the latest leftwing hypocrisy on gun control would draw a bit of chuckle, and we would leave it at that. It seems that rabid gun control advocate and North Carolina state senator R.C. Soles shot one of the two intruders that recently entered his home. As part of the ruling class, the good senator does not have to worry about his gun rights, but he and his kind worry very much about our gun rights.
It is an old story in the annals of collective governance. Their greatest fear is the armed law-abiding citizen. It is not the criminal that worries the left wing; hell, the higher the crime rate, the higher taxes and more government spending they can justify. But it is the armed citizen who strikes fear into the heart of all insipient autocrats, for that citizen will be pushed only so far before he bands with his fellows to resist tyranny. And if they have the tools at hand to put up a fight – well, you know the rest. To counter that, all of us must be disarmed by whatever subterfuge our would-be masters can muster. But the picture of the 74-year-old senator, shootin’ iron in hand, blasting away while defending his home, does bring up a chuckle or two. You think the incident has changed his mind any? Me neither.
Meanwhile, a happier piece about guns is the role that a particular air rifle had in implementing our ‘manifest destiny’. Take a look at the above video (H/T to RR reader) to get the full story. But Lewis & Clark in 1803 made it clear across the American west and back to St Louis by not trading shots with the Indians, but by showing them the power and glory of one particular firearm, and an air rifle at that. Historian Stephen Ambrose mentioned that weapon in his Undaunted Courage, but the full story of this unique weapon was not known to me until I saw the video.
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