The Kentucky Rifle and the California Liberal

They didn't miss a beat, did they? Sure as hell didn't let this tragedy go to waste: a lunatic guns down an Arizona congresswoman, a 9-year-old girl, and a dozen others, and before the bodies are cold the progressive, liberal Left ramps up the hate rhetoric, assigning more blame for the carnage to Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and every gun owner in America than to the shooter himself. But that's okay: it's only hate speech when conservatives do it. When liberals do it, it's freedom of speech and old-fashioned aggressive politics. It seems that Fiberals and Proglodytes (two terms which I am hereby trademarking, as of right now) are as incapable of hate speech as they are clear thought. (Although this little post at Ace of Spades HQ might say otherwise, at least about the hate speech.) Let's see if we can drain the collective swamp of liberal thinking a bit, help them find their way.

Two things, polar opposites in intent, have had a profound effect on this nation: one good, one horribly bad. They are, respectively, the Kentucky Rifle and the California Liberal.

The Kentucky Rifle, for those of you who don't know, is the Grandaddy of American Firearms. The longer barrel and rifled bore made it far more accurate at much longer ranges than the smooth-bore muskets of the day, and the sharpshooters of the American frontier were quick to recognize the advantages. The Kentucky Rifle became an indispensable tool of survival. Better shots meant more food on the family table. It also meant tipping the odds on the battlefield: many foreign officers and Indian war chiefs felt the long-barreled sting even before they heard the shot. The Kentucky Rifle did more than its fair share of work, not only in forging our nation, but in forging what has become a long-standing American tradition, and indeed a Constitutionally protected right: the private ownership of firearms. The Founding Fathers deemed it so vital they gave the right its own section in the framework of our nation:

Amendment II: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

And so it began. The American tradition of gun ownership. Privately owned firearms used to feed and defend our families, and to protect our sovereign rights as a nation. All sired by the Kentucky Rifle, and living on in myriad forms today: rifles, shotguns, and handguns of all makes, models, and calibers, civilian and military. Hundreds of millions of guns owned, enjoyed, and indeed cherished by millions of Americans.

Enter the California Liberal. (Actually, like firearms, liberals come in various sizes and calibers, but the California types are usually the loudest and most obnoxious, so for the sake of our readers I'll just go ahead and pin the rap on them as the representative douchebags.) Nuts to the 2nd Amendment, the Caliberal says: guns are dangerous, you can't carry them around. Guns kill people, they aver: we should get rid of them. Let the police handle it, they say: surely armed criminals won't be able to harm your ENTIRE family before the cops arrive. Better a woman raped and killed at knife-point than a sexual predator killed by gunfire...that logic seems to play in liberal circles. Right up to the tragedy in Tucson: one gun owner goes crazy, therefore all gun owners must be bad. Sarah Palin likes guns, so let's kill her. We're smarter and better and more evolved than you; we know best, so we're going to scream it from the rooftops until you wise up and bow down! So the Caliberals claim; they make the world safer. And they sure do: safer for criminals and terrorists.

You get the idea: flawed logic and muddied thinking. The hallmarks of Fiberals and Proglodytes everywhere.

We here at Constantine's Sidearm offer prayers and condolences to all those affected by the shooting in Tucson. May God Bless the aggrieved, and bring justice to the offenders.