The Bad Crow Review Annual Gun Show
The Bad Crow Review Annual Gun Show
We are a well regulated militia
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He is at parade rest, though.
The Bad Crow Review editorial board has long believed that the Second Amendment has been wrongly interpreted by the courts since the courts first laid hands on it. If one is going to have a well regulated militia, then the citizenry require the right to bear militia-like weapons consistent with the state of the militia in their day.
In the modern day, that includes armored vehicles, shoulder-fired missiles, fully automatic weapons and whatever else an individual can bring to the fight in their up-armored Humvee or lightly-tracked vehicle.
We should additionally consider awarding demonstrably responsible individuals the privilege of maintaining a small store of tactical nukes, to be securely stored in the garage or den.
Alas, this is not the state of affairs we enjoy, and we’re crippled by it. You may be aware that a number of Republicans have called for deploying U.S. Special Forces in Mexico against the drug cartels there. Mexico is not wild about the idea but a lot of people in the U.S. support it.
Inexplicably, though, support declines even among Republicans when people are told that Mexico isn’t down with it. Only 29% (!) of the blood-thirsty wretches, says Harold Meyerson at The American Prospect, support an actual invasion.
Recognizing this, Meyerson has a Solomon-like solution which might satisfy the governments of both the U.S. and Mexico.1
He notes that Mexico has long been furious about the number of weapons crossing into Mexico from the U.S., to the point that they actually sued the U.S. gun manufacturers whose products were most often seized on that side of the border. A federal judge tossed the suit, which some liberals might decry but which Myerson sees as an opportunity.
So: We can’t get the Mexican government to allow us to go after their gangs, and they can’t get our courts to allow them to go after our guns. What’s a civic-minded North American to do?
Here’s my solution: If we send our soldiers into Mexico to destroy their gangs, we must allow Mexico to send its soldiers into the U.S. to blow up our gun factories (calling ahead, of course, so no workers are injured). Both policies will have supporters and opponents on each side of the border, but that’s just part of the symmetry that makes this, if I say so myself, a much-needed breakthrough in cross-border relations.
It’s a thoughtful, measured and clever response—perhaps too clever.
What if instead, we armed our citizen militias to the standard they’re entitled, and let them handle the cartels on a deniable basis? Sure, we’d be affording them their constitutional rights as citizens, but government participation wouldn’t go beyond that—"It’s the founding fathers,” we could say; “whatta ya gonna do?”—and even the Mexican government couldn’t hold our Commander in Chief responsible.
“It’s just Texans,” the CinC could say. “Whatta ya gonna do?”
And if for any reason Mexican officials did complain, we could turn a blind eye—the one that got shot out, per the Admiral Nelson precedent—should their own citizens choose to implement the other part of the Meyerson Solution.
Q.E.D
Second Amendment odds and ends: What are the odds that if this guy had a M320 grenade launcher, he would have been a lot more cautious and his grandson would be fully intact as we speak?
Michael Gardner, 62, was officiating the festivities at Hillcrest Events in Denton around 5 p.m. on Saturday when he attempted to shoot a Pietta Model 1860 Snub Nose revolver loaded with a blank into the air to gain the attention of the wedding guests, according to Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Ben Houchin.
Gardner “decided to gain everybody’s attention and start the wedding with a bang,” Houchin said during a news conference Monday.
“When he decided to cock back the hammer of this revolver, it slipped and it shot his grandson into the left shoulder causing an injury,” Houchin said.2
100%, that’s what the odds are. 100%.
Elsewhere, in a powerful example of why your average citizen can be trusted with militia-ready weapons, this next guy heroically refrained from murdering some obstructionist Wisconsin state employees.
A man illegally brought a loaded handgun into the Wisconsin Capitol, demanding to see Gov. Tony Evers, and returned at night with an assault rifle after posting bail, police said Thursday.
. . .
Madison police reported Thursday that the man was taken into protective custody and taken to the hospital. A spokesperson for the police department did not return an email seeking additional details.3
One can assume the man was taken into protective custody and to the hospital because the only thing he did wrong, in the eyes of the law, was failing to conceal his weapons.
Well, that and failing to hold a concealed weapons permit, but the latter’s just a paperwork issue. The important thing is that despite the provocations, he didn’t kill anybody. Give that man a Stinger.
But enough about that. Let’s turn to something less depressing than our routine abuse of citizen militia-persons.
In a rare bit of cheerful climate-related news, we may avoid hitting the symbolic temperature margin of 1.5°C above preindustrial temperature averages this year.
We may equally well not do so, and we'll still have seen the hottest year on record for a good long while—2016 and 2020 being the previous record-holders—and it’ll be at least a 1.4°C clearance, but let’s not let that obscure the possibly not-immediately-catastrophic news, or at least not for white people in the U.S.
In that same glass-10%-full vein, Arctic ice cover is only 18% below average at present, and the Antarctic ice level showing at a seasonal record low is no reason to ignore the good news.4
(And we should remember that this is coming from the European Union, which is populated by tree huggers and sensationalists.)
Music: I listened to about three hours of Dexter Gordon.5
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Be well, take care, do a rebellion.