Tedious, Tedious

Is it just me, or do the rest of you find dealing with Leftists and gun grabbers (but I repeat myself) to be tedious beyond belief? One such Leftist, Chris Fitzsimon wrote an embarrassment of an Op-Ed in the Southern Pines Pilot. Read his whole post to get a flavor of the contempt he holds you in. He’s so smug in his superiority.

I left him a very long comment, so long in fact that it had to be broken up into three comments to fit. I thought that you would like to read it. You might also want to leave him a comment yourself. Make sure you tell him what you think of smug bastards who advocate for citizen disarmament.

Oh, Chris Fitzsimon of the NC Policy Watch, how sad it must be to be you. You try hard to give the appearance of neutrality, but your loaded words and just plain foolishness shine through anyway. It must be sad to be so far Left that you can’t even maintain some sort of civility towards your political opposition.

For the uninitiated, NC Policy Watch is a far (FAR) Left organization that advocates for every single “progressive” policy you could name. The Left keeps singing the “Power to the People” song, but it absolutely clear that they have no such goal in mind. Putting a gun in the hands of a law abiding citizen is the ultimate form of power to the people. A gun in the hand of the decent, honest citizen means he or she need not fear any man. A gun in the hands of average people means that the rich and powerful, whether private citizen or government agent, can never push those people around. Yet the Left never once has advocated arms to for the citizens. That alone should tell you where the Left actually stands. They want you disarmed and helpless. Rapists want you disarmed and helpless. Robbers want you disarmed and helpless. Murderers want you disarmed and helpless. And the Left, in this case Chris Fitszimon of NC Policy Watch, wants you disarmed and helpless. I would strongly suggest that you consider the company Chris keeps when he advocates citizen disarmament.

Let’s examine Chris’s use of loaded words to try, however clumsily, to cloak his contempt for the honest citizen bearing arms. He continually calls gun ban organizations like North Carolinians against Gun Violence (NCGV) “Gun Safety” organizations. That’s a laugh. Gun Safety is taught by people who instruct others in safe gun handling techniques. The NRA teaches gun safety and so do many others. Gun Safety is mostly a matter of learning to apply Jeff Cooper’s 4 Rules.

 1. Treat all firearms as if they were loaded.

2. Don’t point a gun at anything you are unwilling to destroy.

3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target and you’ve made the decision to fire.

4. Know your target and everything beyond it.

I challenge anyone to find me any time that NCGV has ever taught anyone a hands-on firearm safety class. Their idea of firearms safety is to make it as difficult and as expensive as possible to obtain a firearm. Perhaps they have some reason to want you disarmed and helpless. Perhaps it is their own safety that they are trying to secure.

Chris also tries to call our new expanded “Castle” law a “shoot-first policy.” He never bothers to describe what the law actually says. Our new Castle law says that if someone is in your home, “forcibly and unlawfully,” you can presume that you are in immediate danger of life or serious bodily injury. This only makes sense. If someone enters forcibly and unlawfully, what are you supposed to think? Does Chris imagine that we should ask the intruder what his intentions are? Or does Chris simply not care? Does he wish to protect the life of the intruder even at the cost of your life?

Our Castle law extends that provision to your car and your workplace. Does Chris think that we should meekly allow ourselves to be killed just because we happen to be in our cars or places of business rather than at home? Does he imagine that Christian Relief workers enter homes, cars, and workplaces “forcibly and unlawfully” in the course of their duties? Is he worried that we will shoot these Christian Relief workers? Or is he again more concerned with the lives of the criminals than with your life?

Chris also calls people like me, Paul Valone, and thousands of gun owners, “hard-core gun advocates.” Notice how he never refers to us as “gun rights” activists. You see, Chris believes that we don’t have a right to Bear arms. He’s probably not too sure we have the right to Keep arms either, but he’s kept quiet about that part of the Second Amendment.

What’s particularly amusing is this statement.

“You'd think the way to handle that problem would be to ban guns from picnic areas in city parks, but folks like Valone want to have their guns near the swing set,”

You’d never know from this Op-Ed that Chris fancied himself a stand –up comic. Paul Valone wants to be able to push his child on the swing set without putting his gun in his car. Chris contends that all Paul needs to be perfectly safe from robbers, murderers, and kidnappers is for Smithfield to put up a sign. Chris, we’re not laughing with you, we’re laughing AT you. Once again, Chris pretends that safety consists of avoiding guns. He never seems to understand that when criminals come calling, they bring the gun with them. Please Chris, explain how would I avoid that gun? And why can’t I meet that violence with my own gun?

Chris also glosses over the fact that Smithfield has passed a law that does not comport with the State law. Smithfield’s law will be challenged in court because they have banned concealed carry in places that the State law does not allow them to ban guns. Of course, we don’t think that localities should ban firearms anywhere, because “gun free” really means “disarmed victim.” Cities and Towns that follow the law exactly, while not doing what we want, will not get sued. Recently my Town, Garner, passed a law banning firearms in all the places allowed by law. I fought it every step of the way. But both our Town lawyer and the Chief of Police were very careful not to overstep their authority and will not face any legal action at all. That’s the way it works. People who follow the law do not suffer consequences, people, like Smithfield, Winston-Salem, Kernersville, and Greenville, who break State law, will face the courts. They will lose, and they will pay. The people of those towns should make it clear to their leaders that spending time and money defending an illegal local ordinance is wasting the people’s resources. Every dollar that goes to paying a lawyer to argue a losing court battle is another dollar that doesn’t go towards fixing streets and bridges, and paying the salaries of city workers. Do these towns and cities have money to waste in this economy?

I could go on and on about Chris and his biased and ignorant article, but I think I’ve illustrated enough of his rhetoric to show you the contempt he holds you, the law abiding citizen, in. He doesn’t care if you have the means to defend yourself from criminals. He doesn’t care if you get robbed, raped, kidnapped, or murdered. He doesn’t care about your rights. He wants to disarm you in public and probably at home too. It’s time to tell people like Chris to go back to their ivory towers and stop advocating for policies that will put decent people at risk. It’s time to call Chris on his attempt to take away your rights in any way he can. It’s time to tell Chris that you see right through his act, and you see the statist agenda at the center of everything he advocates. It’s time to tell Chris that you are an adult, free, and paying your own way in life. It’s your body, and your choice. It’s time for him to butt out of your life.

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