Common Ground by maryh10000

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Common Ground by Maryh10000

One of the main problems conservatives have in getting the word out about our actual beliefs is that the legacy media refuses to portray us fairly. And the media that do portray us fairly are automatically assumed to be lying by people who don’t actually know us. One of the problems with this is that certain groups are sure they have to stay with the left, because “everyone knows” that the right is worse. People run into actual racism or homophobia on the left, and since “everyone knows” the right is even worse, they’re stuck.

This came up in a discussion where someone mentioned the video of an interview with a number of queer shooters, including Chris Cheng of Top Shot. They all agreed it was much riskier, socially, to come out as gun owners to their queer friends, than to come out as queer to their gun friends.

This shows an important difference between left and right. Conservatives who disagree with your lifestyle choices are safer than leftists who agree with it. Tolerance means the ability to actively disagree with someone else’s choices without needing to make those choices matters for legal action, disrespect, or shunning. A conservative’s reaction to finding out a fellow gun lover is gay is likely to be “sure, whatever.” Or even “me, too.” After all, some conservatives are gay, we have gay friends and family members.

But the interesting thing about the refusal of leftist governments to protect their citizenry is that more people are buying guns, because they are unsafe and they know it. 2020-2022 saw a huge influx of new gun owners, many of them from the left politically. They mostly bought their guns at shops that were run by conservatives. They are mostly being trained by instructors who are conservative. And these are conservatives of every racial group, both sexes, and various sexualities.

Which means that finally, some leftists are coming into contact with real conservatives. And finding out that no, we don’t want to kill gay people or beat them up. We might think you’re wrong or weird, but mostly we figure people are people and adults are adults. Don’t make us bake the darn cake, or perform your weddings in our churches, or make out in front of us, and we’re good. Really.

On the other hand, there’s an increasing list of things you can’t disagree with on the left, because there is no tolerance on the left. Look at the attacks on any high profile racial minority who disagrees with any part of the left agenda. Look at the attacks on Andy Ngo, a gay man, for covering Antifa. Look at the very term TERF. Even being a radical feminist doesn’t protect you if you deviate at all.

The left is scaring more and more people. I believe that the only thing that’s keeping many of the rank and file in line is believing that if their side has bad people, we must be worse. When it clicks in that they’re wrong, that could be a tipping point.

Maybe gun rights is the common ground that could help save us. Because the less safe people feel, the more they buy guns. And the more people buy guns, the more contact they have with real conservatives, not the leftist media version. And the more contact people have with real conservatives, not the leftist media version, the more they realize that there are real alternatives to the left.

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  3. I’ve related here before, the story of the Flaming Gay Guy who had stunned to near speechlessness a co-worker when he related not only did he own a gun, but had a Class 3 and full auto firearms (inherited from his step-father, who was also more accepting of him being gay than his own father), and the biggy was not only being a Lifetime NRA member, but a “Damned Right I vote Republican!”
    His big thing was that at the end of the day, the leftoids wanted to remove everyone’s rights, not just gun owners, and that is a Bad Thing.

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  4. Well stated! The political monoculture of the Left is like Hotel California, you can check-in but you can never check-out. The monoculture has serious consequences on college campuses where it makes for a worse education, and even threatens the well-being of those who don’t subscribe to the prevailing orthodoxy. In many urban communities people suffer under one-party statism which is a biproduct of monoculturalism. Socially, the monoculture is stunningly intolerant while demanding conformity..

    It’s time for people to renounce the Left’s false idols (ideology) and think, instead, for themselves.

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    1. In my darker moments I look at what’s happening in education, and can’t help thinking of three SF classics – “Search the Sky”, “The Marching Morons”, and “The Little Black Bag”. Pohl and Kornbluth aren’t always comfortable reads, but they were among the best in the business, and are always entertaining.

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  5. I have friends and coworkers who are gay, or straight but profligately tomcattish. I am friends with and respect them because they have redeeming qualities, ranging from hard work and competence to being utterly selfless giving their own time, money, and resources, when they see a need.
    They know full well that they don’t need my acceptance of their sex lives. I know they know it, too, and I have never hidden my dislike for it. They have never asked for approval, and I have never offered. Nevertheless, we are friends with mutual respect.
    Disapproval of an aspect does not equal hatred. Tolerance of it does not equal approval.
    But according to the left, I should hate them in my disapproval, and they should hate me for refusing to celebrate their profligacy.

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    1. Not entirely. There’s a lot of them that believe that the right is much worse than the left. There’s still a lot of people who effectively believe that the R next to a Republican candidate’s name on the ballot might as well mean Racist.

      “If the Democrats are this annoying, and they’re the good guys, imagine how much worse the Republicans must be!”

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      1. There are also probably a lot of people (middle-aged and older) who are attached to the idea of what Democrats were in the past.

        The Democratic party’s past image was an egregious lie, but they don’t know that. And they don’t want to accept that the D party today is utterly opposed to all the principles it claimed to hold back then.

        That misty-lens view of themselves as good people who have been conscientiously doing the right thing their whole lives is a very difficult thing to shake. It’s part of their self-concept, and they can’t bear to entertain the thought that maybe they were always wrong (or had been grossly deceived) about what the good thing to do really was.

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          1. Always fun to ask lifetime democrats what Wilson, FDR and LBJ actually did properly as presidents. When you mention the illegal, immoral and just wrong things they did, sometimes a lightbulb turns on.

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            1. Most of their lightbulbs are permanently disconnected. Tell them that Wilson proudly screened ‘Birth Of A Nation’ at the White House and they literally won’t hear you. Tell them the Jim Crow laws were enacted and enforced by Democrats and they won’t hear that either.

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              1. Butbutbut “the great switcheroo! The racists switched sides!”

                Bullcrap. Some racists did repent of it, -then- switched sides.

                I know a number of unreconstructed Southerners that will proudly vote Donk until they freeze over in hell.

                The Donks have merely swapped chattel slavery for collectivist slavery. They still intend to hold the whip.

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                1. The only thing that many of the southerners had in common with the Dems was anti-black racism. When the Dems stopped supporting it, those voters had nothing in common with the party and, unsurprisingly, switched sides. I’ve also been told that about the same time, a lot of Republican voters from up in the New England area moved south, further changing the voting demographics.

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        3. Plus the, “everybody knows,” mindset. Everybody knows Republicans are for the rich, hate the little guy, an so on.

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        5. It’s really really hard to admit one is wrong. Admitting that one has been so wrong that you are like unto the ignorant German citizen who believed the Nazi propaganda and happily voted for Hitler is a bridge too far for the average ‘good people’ person.

          It is great that a few are humble enough to change.

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  8. Leftroids are The Good People, so when they are bigoted and intolerant, obviously those Eeevul MAGA Republicans must be much, much worse!

    We, on the other hand, know the Leftroids are evil because we see them prove it every day.
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    There is no shortage of people convinced they can create the Perfect World. They just have to eliminate all those imperfect people who don’t fit in it.

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  9. “You don’t care I’m queer?”

    “I am far more concerned that you think that little mousegun abomination is a proper sidearm for self defense. If you are going to carry to defend yourself, as you said, against fag bashing, use a .45 and put them the f#ck -down-. At least a 9mm. Sheesh.”

    “Uh… “

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    1. “Wait, how did you know I was gay?”

      “Well, it was either the pride stickers all over the back of your car, or the fact you’re carrying a .32 ACP.”

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      1. The dude with rainbows and “pride” on his Prius was a .357 fanboi. I think he was into pain, recreationally. (Grin)

        .32 works, if you do your job. If that is what you can get away with carrying, go for it. Some folks can’t afford to get fired, or ostracized out of a social circle. Pocket pistols are discreet and beat hell out of harsh language.

        I can get away with a big pistol, because I am a bit larger than most. (Heh) Some folks is little. Not everyone can say “f this gig”. I just want folks to go max effect wherever possible. The thug they put down doesn’t molest my kin. Or me.

        Got real bad safety concerns? Let me introduce you to my best bud Mr. Garand. (Grin)

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    2. 9 mm jacketed hollow points do a good job of penetration and hole-making. The problem with compact, concealable pistols (mouse gun if you prefer) is that the barrel length doesn’t give a whole lot of time to accelerate the bullet. 2 to 2.5 inches, maybe 3 tops, and that projectile isn’t going any faster after it leaves the barrel.

      Given a choice of takedown capability, and accuracy, I prefer my Dan Wesson .357 revolver with a 6-inch barrel to my 9mm P365 Sig. But the Sig is a lot easier to conceal, even in polite company. And a gun doesn’t do any good if you don’t have it with you.

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  10. I don’t have to agree with the choices you make as an adult.
    I don’t have to support the choices you make as an adult.
    I Just have to agree that you as an adult have the right to make those choices.
    Period Dot. End of story.

    The left is evil, pure and simple, until they change, my god burn them all in hell.

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    1. That’s the major issue with the T in the LGBTQ+. The government is hellbent on not only forcing children into transsexuality, they’re hellbent on making the taxpayers fund it. None of the other “letters” require radical body modifications that generally lead to sterility.

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      1. “that generally always lead to sterility.”

        FTFY. Removal of reproductive organs does that.

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      2. The issue is that far too many “activists” are trying to force trans on to people that are in the 15–25-year-old range. You know, the range where people have very poor concepts of long-term consequences as an emotional ideal? And are very susceptible to peer pressure?

        The one where when you hit about 26-30, you look back at your teenage years and go, “man, I was a f(YAY!)king idiot when I was younger”?

        …I can understand some people feeling that way (God knows there were days where it was tempting), but considering who they’re targeting…

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  11. I used to have the same feelings about the left that I think a lot of us did. It was pretty simple. “They see us as evil, we just see them as wrong.”

    I don’t think that way any more. Now I see them as evil. And I just don’t want to win. I want their illogical, harmful, deadly, destructive views destroyed and eradicated from the face of the earth until the Communist Manifesto is only read in Hell.

    Sooner or later, if you keep telling us we’re racist, fascist, misogynistic, gun-toting, homophobic, psychotic weirdos for holding the same beliefs that have underpinned this country for two hundred years? Then maybe we’ll just turn into what you think we are. And may the God you don’t believe in help you on that day.

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    2. Have to disagree. Their constant abuse can never turn us into all the nasty things they always label us with. Those things are simply not our nature.
      On the other hand, quoting preacher Book, the Good Lord was a bit vague on the subject of kneecapping. There is an appropriate time and place for righteous retribution. And it may very well reach the point where “nuke them from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure” becomes the guiding principle of our time.

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      1. And that’s my constant struggle. Between what is demanded of me as a Christian, and what my base nature wants to do to some of these people. Keeping captive my thoughts is never an easy job.

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        1. Christ expected 1 in 6 of us to be armed and guard the remainder of the church. Two swords out of 12 were His definition of “enough”.

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      2. Star Trek (the original) Savage Curtain:

        “ROCK: You are the survivors. The others have run off. It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted. However, you have failed to demonstrate to me any other difference between your philosophies. Your good and your evil use the same methods, achieve the same results. Do you have an explanation?
        KIRK: You established the methods and the goals.
        ROCK: For you to use as you chose.
        KIRK: What did you offer the others if they won?
        ROCK: What they wanted most. Power.
        KIRK: You offered me the lives of my crew.

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        1. That was a decent episode. As for achieving the same results, the Rock Alien was wrong. Kirk & Co. won. The Bad Guys lost. And the Rock Alien bad guy lost too, as they didn’t learn from their experience. Motivation for power almost always takes a back seat to motivation to survive.

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  12. “Get a room!” Is not new for gays. I am not including holding hands, or other appropriate public displays of affection. What happens between two consenting adults is none of my business. Don’t make it my business.

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    2. Agreed – Like the turn of the last century celebrity actress, Mrs. Patrick Campbell is supposed to have said, “I don’t care what goes on in the bedroom; don’t do it in the road and frighten the horses!”
      As for myself, it’s been a good half-century since I gave a damn about what consenting adults did in private. Of course, the operative terms are “consenting” “adult” and “private.” Which does leave me open to asking to tolerate certain strains of incest and polygamy … but as I said before. Consenting. Adult. Private.

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      1. The real creeps are those insisting that people have “sexual orientations” and “sexual preferences” and only the first are protected. That is the logic by which you can be transphobic for refusing to date a transsexual — if not more.

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      2. In the mid-eighties, I was confounding fellow soldiers by stating I didn’t give a crap who was gay or not, as long as any grab-ass was consensual and excluded me. I just wanted to know 1) can the bastard shoot straight, and 2) will the bastard stick around and shoot when the enemy attacks.

        (To one particular yahoo) “Not interested in who is allegedly a meat-gazer. You only shoot ‘marksman'”. (Lowest qual)

        I rattled the cage of a few superiors with that riff. (Grin)

        Yes. I do understand that once sexual availability, or sexual predation, exists in a unit that morale can quickly go to hell. My private thoughts at the time ran towards “Infantry should be self correcting of predation. A slit throat or two sets an example.”

        I also called out a few folks with “The main objection some have to having gays around is not wanting to be treated like they treat women, as in ‘prey'”.

        I am also 100% positive we had several active other-team-batters in my unit. They just followed the ancient wisdom of keeping it approximately 100 miles from the garrison flagpole. One, amusingly, ran the “no fags” riff dialed -way- up.

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          1. Well. Actually it is generally a switch back or two, depending how long the switch back is. What? His legs are longer and I have to stop more often. “Oh. Look how pretty!” Huff Puff Huff Puff. It was 7k+ elevation!

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  13. “They all agreed it was much riskier, socially, to come out as gun owners to their queer friends, than to come out as queer to their gun friends.”

    Yes, no kidding. I’m reminded of the fabulously gay gentleman who runs some SF review site being “So Concerned” about his “Safety” at Liberty Con. I said he’d be safer than he was at friggin’ WorldCon. Zero chance of being burned as a heretic, for one thing.

    Well, bro picked a side and presently got burned as a heretic. Too bad so sad, can’t say we didn’t warn you dude.

    The welcoming side will definitely win. The heretic burners will definitely lose. It’ll just take a while for the undecided, unconscious idiots to pull their heads out of their nether regions and pay attention.

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    1. Heretic?

      I am known for carrying a single-action revolver for CCW.

      Even by Odd standards, I occasionally Boggle folks

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        1. Pop spent about 40 years looking for a documented civilian gunfight where a -fast- reload made the difference.

          Nada. Not one.

          You are going to solve the gunfight with what is in the gun. And in most cases, with the first one to three rounds.

          Yes. I always carry at least one reload. One load in the gun to get you through the fight. The second to get you home.

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          1. Th criticism is of the time needed to make the gun ready (possibly requiring both hands), i.e. for it being a single action, not for the capacity.

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            2. WordPress has been weird about that lately.

              Indeed, I’d be more worried about the additional manual action required to fire the gun than the capacity. That said, I’d I’m not sure I’d even say I’m criticizing. Just…needling.

              A guy who carries a single-action revolver AND a reload for it? I’m not sure if that’s doubling down on the optimism or tempering it a bit. :)

              But our doughty mailclerk clearly does know his way around firearms, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he has enough practice with his SA carry piece to have better odds in a fight than I would with the 13 rounds in my 9mm semiauto.

              That said, nobody ever came out of a shots-fired situation wishing they’d had fewer rounds on tap in their firearm, which is one of the reasons I go for 9mm. Plus it’s pretty much the cheapest round to practice with (when I do practice).

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                  1. A bog-standard 1911 is medium concealable, at least in cold weather. Had one occasion where knowing it was present and I was fairly good with it scared off a snatch-n-run robber who had been working a grocery store. The dude saw my wife, thought “easy target”, saw me, thought “OK”, then he saw my smile and left. Perhaps the thought balloon with “Mozambique” in it contributed to his urgency.

                    The next day (after calming down–circumstances would have been really bad if the snatch had worked) $SPOUSE called the Flyover Falls police, and they blanketed that store. A so-called friend said “I’m afraid to call the police”, when she had been stalked but passed on the day before. Dammit, those police are good people. (Haven’t run across a bad one, yet, though there was a really sketchy Officer Involved shooting a few years later.)

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                    1. Now we are inundated with ‘immigrants’ from third-world shitholes where the police are nothing but a corrupt street gang with government sanction. They bring that attitude with them.
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                      When police arrest violent criminals to protect innocent people, they are condemned as Jackbooted Fascist Stormtroopers.

                      When police arrest innocent people at the behest of corrupt politicians, they are hailed as National Heroes.

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                    2. Good point about concealability and seasonal clothing. About the best I can do with hot summers is a loose t-shirt draped over a small of the back placement. I don’t like carrying there because you really can’t sit with it, and drawing from there is somewhat more difficult.

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                    3. I run a G17 with a +2 mag everyday. It’s ~90% concealed – the grip prints slightly on occasion – but my reckoning is anyone who sees and knows will either not be worried, or will be worried. Most everyone else is oblivious.

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                    4. I found pants (Riggs carpenter’s) with cargo pockets will do for smaller freedom seed dispensers, through at least a compact 9. Ain’t ideal, but IWB and SOB haven’t worked for me. Mileage will vary.

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            3. Draw and fire of SA is as fast as anything else. Proper technique.

              I shoot them in competition most weekends. Very comfortable with carrying one socially.

              If I expect trouble, I run towards “rifle in hand, 1911 as backup, plus friends”. Also “go elsewhere”.

              Interestingly, from your optimist comment, Pop once called me “optimist”. Because I carry a reload for a J-frame (pocket .38 revolver).

              Heh.

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              1. I shoot a single-action automatic, so I’m used to cocking the hammer with my thumb as I draw.

                Yeah, lots of 1911s have ambidextrous safeties now, but most of them don’t, and it was only recently that I acquired one. My 1911 technique was developed when ambi safeties were rare curiosities; it probably took twenty years after I first saw one in a magazine before I saw one in the metal, and almost that much again before I owned one.

                The early gun industry was inflexibly right-handed. And I’m not.

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  15. I’ve thought of a response to those “Republicans don’t want black people to have guns” comments, besides our usual, “Uh… yes we do.” I haven’t heard this expressed, though I cannot possibly be the first person.
    “So, you acknowledge that powerful people want to take guns away from people in order to prevent them from defending themselves in order to make them easier to oppress? So why you support the government taking away the guns of all citizens?”
    If the leftist is savable, this might make them think. Then you can follow up with “Yes, I do support black people owning guns to prevent government oppression. Like from crooked cops.”
    I dunno, plans never survive first contact with the enemy, but remind them that gun control is a two way street, and WHOMEVER wants to do it is probably not your friend.

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    2. Yeah.

      How is Massa Donk gonna save them Darkies, if they have Arms and can take care of themselves? Why, they might start thinking of themselves uppity-like.

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    3. Yep. Some leftists seem to use “The blacks are buying guns” as a threat to frighten the conservatives. They just don’t understand that the average conservative response is, “Good! Come on out to the range and I’ll help you learn how to shoot.”

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  17. Mail order machine guns, gun show loophole, AR stands for assault rifle, the AR-15 is a weapon of war, I could go on and on about the lies told by the anti gun zealots and perpetuated by the mainstream media on an uneducated public. And mostly crash and burn the first time a new potential gun owner tries to buy their first firearm.
    Always keep in mind that the progressive left do not hate guns, what they utterly loath is guns in the hands of the civilian public. Military grade weapons in the hands of people that they control: their bodyguards, minions. stormtroopers, Stazi, etc. are just fine.
    As for the whole racist, misogynist, bigot, homophobe and such, the left have had great success riding the coattails of social issues in their never ending ending quest for ever greater power and control over what should be free thinking peoples. They have used race, the gay thing, and now trans in attempts to manipulate public opinion and the legal system with the ultimate goal always to their benefit.
    In that never ending lust for power IMHO they may have made a fatal error in this trans business, particularly in lumping stuff all together in the whole LBGTQ+ kerfuffle.
    Now a transvestite is simply someone who gets something out of representing as the opposite gender. Go drag queens! But believing that you really are the opposite gender has until recently been considered a mental illness, gender dysphoria as I recall. And the two aspects of that which I believe are beyond the pale are the issues of biological males competing in women’s sports and the demand that minor children be allowed to permanently medically alter their bodies in an attempt to treat a mental illness.
    As these two issues continue to be forced into public notice the American people are having no choice but to form their opinions and take sides. And my faith in them leads me to believe that cheating in sports competitions and the mutilation of kids are both hard Hell No’s.

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    1. Those two places are pretty much where I draw my lines, too. Men shouldn’t compete in women’s sports where sexual differences absolutely make a performance difference, and children should not be subjected to unnecessary surgery.

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    2. fatal error in this trans business, particularly in lumping stuff all together in the whole LBGTQ+ kerfuffle… believe that cheating in sports competitions and the mutilation of kids are both hard Hell No’s.
      ………………….

      Plus lumping in acceptance of pedophilia grooming, and acceptance of rape culture (what else is “must accept my attentions that you don’t want”?) in with the whole sewer. It is a power trip pure and simple. Major oops showing those cards. No walking them back.

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      1. Most excellent catch. I tend to lump it all into “harm to children” but this whole normalization of pedophilia and grooming of minor children is egregious enough to be called out on its own.

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        1. lump it all into “harm to children”
          ….

          Maybe because I tend to be too wordy, explain too much, whatever. But in this case every detail that consists of the “lump it all into ‘harm to children’,” needs to be exhaustively explicitly listed, and repeated. Heck if it has to be shorted how about presenting them with “You believe in raping children” when they insist on transitioning minors. Because the transition mutilation of a minor is Rape.

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    3. > the AR-15 is a weapon of war

      The amusing thing is, the AR-15 really is a “sporting rifle.”

      Armalite designed it in the hope of getting a military contract. They failed. As funds started running out, they started selling them to gun dealers, who sold them to ordinary citizens, who used them for plinking and taking small game suitable for the .223 cartridge. It wasn’t until later that the USAF bought a small number of AR-15s. There had already been an M-15 (it never really went anywhere), and the next number was 16, so its military designation became the M-16.

      TL;DR: AR-15s were in civilian hands before the military got any.

      By the way, the history of the Model 1911 pistol is similar. There was a long, long development, trial, and paperwork before the Army actually ordered some. Colt didn’t wait for that; they cataloged and started selling them to anyone who had money.

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  18. Roughly a century ago, you could walk into your local hardware store and buy a Thompson submachine gun off the shelf. And if they didn’t have one in stock, you could order it and have it sent to your home. And you didn’t have to pay the Fe(de)ral government several times the worth of the gun in tax. And there was cocaine in Coca-Cola®. What a country! Where did it go?

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    1. Call them progressive, Marxist, or scum of the Earth (probably the most descriptive).
      There are and always have been those who’s nature simply cannot tolerate the idea that other folks are allowed to be free and happy without their “gentle” guidance.
      Sadly, such gravitate to positions of power and will never cease trying to bend the public to their twisted idea of what is right and proper, ie them in charge and all of us subservient.
      Two excellent examples you give: gun control and the never ending drug war, both utter failures, attempting to do good while in fact depriving free people of their right to choose their own path.

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  19. I have been told that I’m gay, I just don’t know it yet. I’ve been told if I just tried it I’d change my mind. This from the same people who said it’s not a choice, they were born that way.

    I have been told that my lifestyle (celibate outside of marriage) is dangerous and unhealthy.

    The mere suggestion that their lifestyle is dangerous and unhealthy is homophobic or transphobic. They can say whatever the heck they please, hold “love-ins” as a form of protest, mutilate children, support child porn, but I’m to “Stay out of their bedroom.”

    When you literally bring your bedroom out into the public square, you’ve given up any right to privacy or silence.

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    1. I have been told that I’m gay, I just don’t know it yet. I’ve been told if I just tried it I’d change my mind. This from the same people who said it’s not a choice, they were born that way.

      I have been told that my lifestyle (celibate outside of marriage) is dangerous and unhealthy.
      ……………….

      I was told these things too, 50 years ago. Answer with silence or “NYB” was unheeded.

      When you literally bring your bedroom out into the public square, you’ve given up any right to privacy or silence.
      …………………….

      Give up any right to no criticism.

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      1. reviled lifestyle right now is celibate.
        ……………………….

        Now? Sarah I can tell you are younger than I am. In mid ’70s, late HS, through college, playing dumb (okay naive enough that playing isn’t the correct word) was how I survived. Didn’t help with my maiden name. Also stubborn. Yes, I was celibate.

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    3. I’ve been approached by men seeking, um, intimate activity. The first avenue of attack is along asimilar lines, usually, “How do you know you’re not gay?” the answer to which is, “I’ve been having erotic dreams since (the now going on five decades) puberty, and never once have I had a racy dream about a guy.” The other is, of course, “How do you know you won’t like it unless you try it?” To which my reply is, “I’ve never tried playing Russian Roulette with a loaded .45 either, and I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t enjoy the experience.”

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      1. A couple of times I’ve had to tell ’em: “You’re fishin’ in the wrong lake.”

        And: “Never tried eating dog shit, either, but I know I wouldn’t like it.”

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  20. Pro-patriot rally gets a visit by masked “Nazi” “co-protestors”. Pro-patriots drive the “Nazis” off, and unmask two of them. The police intervene immediately afterwards to allow the “Nazis” to leave without further harrassment –

    h/t Instapundit

    Bonus points – Adam Kinzinger tweets in response and castigates the pro-patriots for assaulting federal officers.

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  21. I read several posts today that are on point here, especially some of the comments.
    Links are “massaged” but the Daily Caller had the first two, and Not the Bee another one.
    I’m sensing a trend here.

    opinion-its-time-for-a-big-fat-gay-divorce-deroy-murdock/

    betsy-mccaughey-americas-silent-majority-is-turning-up-the-heat-on-lgbtq-activism-the-results-speak-for-themselves/

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  22. In any Authoritarian Regime, reality is not determined by the facts, but by the needs of their Narrative. Until you understand this and realize that facts, data, reason and logic are of no use in attempting to dissuade such individuals, you will always be behind the curve. It is YOU who doesn’t understand the problem. “Gun Violence” is simply verbiage to them, they support gun violence, just as long as the guns are in the hands of people they think they control and the violence is committed against those they don’t like.

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    1. We’re not looking to sway the invincibly ignorant, or the flat liars.

      We’re looking at the folks who have been lied to in good faith, and chipping away at the useful idiots.

      Both of which any unjust power built on falsehoods needs to surivive.

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  23. June 14, 2023
    I am listening to WWII book via my iPhone today. There is talk about the holocaust and genocide in 1944. That killing Jews, Gypsies, political prisoners, Polish soldiers, mental ill folks and elderly was acceptable in Germany. Post war, the German leadership excuse was that they were following orders, but they knew. That killing 12 million or more was ok. Genocide started small, before the gas chambers and ovens, they would shoot at point blank women and even children. What is worse that over a million Germans worked the camps and machinery, for they allowed it, aka killing of children was ok, one gets use to it. I tell you this for one simple reason, that a holocaust can happen again for evolution is slow, that folks who live next door can and will allow this and some may even help, that the difference between mass shootings and genocide is the 2nd. Best we keep that amendment for they will come for you and your children in a greater way. Least you can take some of them with you. The second is the great equalizer between the state and you. Even in the late 1700s, our forefathers knew.

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