Guns Save Life has friends in all sorts of places and we get lots of tips.
One of our closest friends gave me a good tip in recent days, steering me to Joan Peterson’s blog. You almost surely haven’t heard of her blog before, as she’s a rabid ideologue whose only claim to fame is that a relative was killed by a spree killer (or something like that). Instead of blaming the mentally depraved killer, she irrationally blames the tool he used. Not surprisingly, her irrationality doesn’t stop there. She vomits it forth, seemingly about everyday on her blog.
Not to worry though, nobody cares. Her Alexa ranking is about 13,309,000. In plain English, that means her traffic is measured in scores of visitors per month, not thousands per day as ours are.
From her blog (here), this is the money quote:
What I want to know is whether those same items representing the Confederacy will still be sold at gun shows across the country? Will we still see photos of guys like this, strutting around with the hateful flag plus their AR-15s? How offensive can you get? Or remember the prom goers posing for a photo with their guns and that flag? Or this “good guy” with a gun who pulled his gun out and pointed it at young kids who made fun of the Confederate flag image on his truck?Offensive stuff for sure.
Pay attention to that first link. It is a Google search for “guys with guns and confederate flags”.
Go read this piece from By D.C. McAllister at The Federalist.com. If you’re pressed for time, here’s the Cliff’s Notes:
Now that South Carolina has taken down the Confederate flag flying on statehouse grounds, MSNBC is drumming the five whose state flags incorporate “Confederate themes.”
They continue to prove liberals are never satisfied. We fought the Civil War. We ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. We have the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The civil-rights movement was a success. Now, we have South Carolina pulling down the Confederate flag. But it’s still not enough. And Hillary Clinton agrees…
Whites Must Stop Being Racists, But They Can’t
Shelby Steele, author of “White Guilt,” calls this “manipulating stigma.” With the victory of the civil-rights movement, whites lost their moral authority—something that inevitably happens when you admit you’ve done something wrong. As a nation, we confessed our racist past, and we righted that wrong. That should have been the end of it, but with the loss of that moral authority came an increase in the moral authority of minorities—power they and the Democratic Party have twisted and used to advance one social-justice agenda after another. Steele says this happens because of white guilt, and the stigma of racism reinforces white guilt.
The best paragraph in the otherwise excellent piece:
…The Confederate flag controversy has never been about being sensitive to minorities in the aftermath of the dreadful mass murder in South Carolina. It has been about stigma and the Democratic Party using it to delegitimize anyone who doesn’t bend to its will. Steele explains that if an individual or institution in America is stigmatized as racist, then they are delegitimized. They lose all power and authority and influence. They are marginalized and ostracized. When that happens, they can be easily defeated or manipulated.
The delegitimization is just the latest technique of anti-gunners to attack pro-gun groups, individuals, etc.
Look for more of it in the coming days and months. So long as they can capitalize on the make-believe issue of the Confederate flag – thanks to the faulty perceptions of said flag and its meaning – they will attempt to batter us with it.
The solution?
Why are leftists so anti-freedom?
Gun laws are classist, racist, and sexist. Why are leftists such hateful control-freaks?
And my favorite: I don’t want to manipulate anyone using the Confederate flag or other similar distrations. I want people to understand the truth so we will all be better, smarter citizens.
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