Shade of King George III

A.B. Stoddard says that if the federal Frankenstein isn't dead, he sure isn't feeling too well: Gun control may have to wait.

Perhaps. But the victories grabbed by the citizen disarmament collectivists in the various states are an immediate disaster -- miniature intolerable acts that must be confronted in each venue. Lawsuits are threatened by the usual suspects (SAF, NRA, NSSF) but will they achieve even injunctions before someone (or a whole lot of someones) gets killed resisting these unconstitutional abominations? I doubt it. As I wrote a Connecticut reporter very early this morning:

What I would be curious to know is how these legislators are going to react when people begin to flout the laws that they have passed. As a long-time advocate of the Founder's concept of the armed citizenry . . . there are a number of people in Connecticut who have approached me about utilizing the tactics of armed civil disobedience -- as exemplified by the Deacons for Defense and Justice in the 60s and the Black Panthers in the 70s -- later in the year. That is, gathering together and, in front of the press, deliberately violating the law on standard capacity magazine sales for example. The events in Connecticut would be part of a national campaign, including Colorado, New York, Maryland, Connecticut and California and, of course, whatever new federal restrictions are passed. There are a number of people in this country who have sworn to defy any new restrictions on our traditional, God-given and inalienable rights to liberty and property.

And when we defy these laws, we will be inviting the authorities of Connecticut and other states to send in the uniformed bully boys to work their will upon us. Only we will not submit meekly. What then will they do? How many of us are they willing to see dead to enforce such unconstitutional laws? How many will be enough? A hundred? A thousand? How many do they wish to imprison? How many lives of heretofore honest citizens are they willing to wreck? These are the questions I would like to see posed to your state legislators and your governor. Just because someone succeeds in passing an intolerable act doesn't mean they will like the unintended consequences of that tyranny under color of law. Just ask King George III, if you can summon up his shade.

 Have a peaceful Sunday afternoon.