The gun has long been called an equalizer. Massad Ayoob

[gejoslin]

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Link Removed Posted: 04 Mar 2013 05:42 PM PST The gun has long been called an equalizer. As in, “God made men, and Colonel Colt made them equal.” My friends and colleagues at the Second Amendment Foundation have a new push for this theme: see it here. Link Removed The gun is a force multiplier. As has been noted in this blog more than once, it allows a handful of beleaguered black Americans to fend off larger numbers of Klansmen. The gun allows the righteous few to hold their own against many who are doing violent wrong. Do a Google search for Elfego Baca. Wise modern gun experts from Don Kates to Tamara Keel have pointed out that if you want to know how warm and fuzzy it would be to have a world without guns, you have only to look back to the outlawry and oppression of the Middle Ages. The gun allows the female of our species – generally smaller and lighter, and always with proportionately less upper body strength and less cultural predispositioning to using physical force – to defeat men attempting to rape her. The modern feminist version of the Old West saying about Colonel Colt and equality is the popular tee-shirt slogan that says, “God made men and women equal…and Smith & Wesson keeps them that way.” I remember one of my graduates who confronted a burglar in her home. She drew her gun and snapped, “Don’t move!” He came at her. She shot him in one of his upper limbs. He came at her again. She shot him dead with a bullet to center chest. The shooting was, of course, ruled justified. To this day, I shudder to think what this aggressor would have done to her if she hadn’t had her SIG-Sauer. The gun allows the poor and powerless to protect themselves as well as the rich and powerful. It is axiomatic in our country that any citizen should be able to become President. A poor kid raised by his grandparents recently did so, and got re-elected. He and his family are surrounded by Secret Service agents with high cartridge capacity firearms. Us ordinary po’ folks don’t have heavily armed security guards provided by taxpayer funding to guard us and our families like Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, or Michael Bloomberg. How sad and ironic that the poor kid who grew up to be President doesn’t want your potential-future-President kids to be protected as his own potential-future-President children are. Equality. Freedom. Guns. Yes, they all do belong in the same sentence. Massad Ayoob

 

[Warrior1256]

Could not agree more. As always, Mr. Ayoob, you make your point very well.

 

[GaT]

As the saying goes "I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six"
We have to fight for our freedom, it is never given freely.

 

[gejoslin]

We need to get our wives, sisters, aunts, cousins and all other women folk to get their carry permits and train and carry. It's important that in this day and age that they are able to protect themselves. I know that as men we want to protect them but we can't always be there for them.
I've got my wife and sister to buy guns and I'm training my wife to shoot. We're also working on drills so that we can cover each others backs.
We talk to ever one who is willing to listen about gun training and calling and emailing our Reps and Senators. Voting for 2 Amendment friendly congress persons.

 

[fuhr52]

God created man Sam Colt made them equal.

 

[2Awarrior]

We need to get our wives, sisters, aunts, cousins and all other women folk to get their carry permits and train and carry.

I'd love to, but my beautiful young daughter is a fashion designer who lives in the People's Republic of New York City. She sure ain't getting a CCW there. But I gotta love her, this graceful, smart, wispy little thing, who would strap a .40 to her leg so fast it'd make Mayor Bloomdouche pass out.
I have often wondered what I would do if she were ever harmed and it was obvious she could have protected herself if she'd been armed... I have a feeling me and Mike wouldn't be friends...