Occasionally it is important to kick your enemies in the teeth. Most times, when your enemy is small, weak, and ineffective, it’s a waste of time, but even then you should remind them of their place in the world. You remind them that you can kick them in the teeth whenever you want. It keeps them scared, and prevents you having to waste a lot of effort on really big smackdowns. Better to handle problems when they are small than wait until they are big.
This is the situation we find ourselves in with the anti-gunners. They aren’t going away, but neither are they all that effective. They have convinced themselves that if they hide behind the mantle of “victim,” they are immune to criticism. They hope that the natural tendency of people to want to protect victims will shield them from our wrath. We must kick them in the teeth in exactly that position in order to prove to them, and ourselves, that we can and will.
Others have said that it’s a waste of time. Some even say it’s counterproductive. That’s only because they are not looking at the situation clearly. They act like our intention is to convert our enemies. It isn’t. We will never convert the crazy lady from Duluth into a believer in facts, logic, or Constitutional rights. But that’s not our goal. Our goal is to prevent her and people like her from being used as a battering ram against our rights. We can do that.
So we pick fights. We poke, and prod, and ridicule. We even call them out on their hypocrisy. We do whatever we need to do to provoke their rage, and then we hold a mirror up to that rage. We expose them for the crazy, angry, controlling statists that they are. We work them up into a lather, and then we laugh at them.
Some people act like there will be some sort of blowback from deliberately puncturing people’s pretensions of victimhood. I ask you, from whom? The majority of people who aren’t with us already don’t really care. They aren’t approaching the situation with a bias towards crazy ladies who hate guns. They are just as susceptible (or immune) to our argument as the next person. The only people who get mad at us for slapping our enemies around are either already our enemies, or they are people on our side who think that we are still a minority.
Newsflash, we aren’t the minority. We never were. We allowed the press to tell us that we were a minority and we needed to be quiet and not rock the boat. They were lying. Let me say that again. They were lying. When we sit quietly in the corner and miss our chance to make our case, they win. If we speak up, they lie and tell us that we are “scaring” people. So what do you do? Do you shut up and let them win unchallenged? Or do you speak up and make your case?
We are now at a place where we’ve spoken up for 40 years. Every state except Illinois has some form of Concealed Carry, even if in practice some refuse to issue. If we’d have shut up all those years ago, would we have gotten here? In basically every state, the anti-gunners are losing badly. Here in North Carolina, widely derided as the Massachusetts of Dixie, the only statewide anti-gun group has admitted that they have absolutely no chance to stop new pro-rights laws. I guess their grant application paperwork goes something like “We are a totally ineffective organization that has no hope of affecting policy in any meaningful way. Please give us money so that our two employees don’t have to get real jobs.” Yeah, that’ll work.
Now is not the time to be nice. They are on the run. It’s time to fix bayonets and charge. It’s time to scatter and demolish the enemy, the same way they would do you if our places were reversed. Our enemies will howl and cry foul. They will try to fool you into being nice to them instead of treating them exactly as they would have treated you. They will play on your pity when they are remorseless themselves. They deserve no pity, no quarter, and no rest. Part of denying them rest is denying them safe havens. That means telling them exactly what we think of them and driving them into the narcissistic rage we’ve seen recently.
I will agree that it is pointless to read and comment on their blogs. Don’t waste your time trying to fight their comment moderation. Don’t bump up their hit counts by reading their blogs. Engage them on your own blog, or in letters to the editor, or like I did, as a counterprotest. Don’t fight them where they have control. Just make sure that they are getting kicked in the teeth often enough that they spend most of their time worrying about the next time they are going to get kicked in the teeth. Behavior punished will diminish. Behavior rewarded will increase. Allowing them to think that they have won makes them stronger. Deny them their victory.
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The press was really the keystone of their whole movement. As you said, with them controlling the message all we knew was what we were told or what we learned from people we had direct contact with.
ReplyDeleteThe internet changed all that; even with traditional media still shilling for them they're still losing. It shouldn't surprise anyone that they're now attacking the internet.
Well said, Sean.
ReplyDeleteWell said Sean. We need to keep kicking them (figuratively of course) until they have no teeth left. I have no problem pointing out the hypocrisy and even stupidity of the anti-gun crowd.
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