Sometimes I wonder whether the right wing is insane. Other times, I'm sure of it.
Conservatism … plus ça change.
You may have noticed the pattern: this or that prominent murder or set of murders occurs, the survivors wonder if perhaps there had to be so many gunz so readily available to Teh Crazee.
Then on comes some whacked out buzzard with some horror tale about Teh Gun Grabbin' Liberals.
This time (again) it's Charles C.M. Cooke, who is really smart because (a) he has four names and (b) he's got an English accent, having left his native land, Air Strip One, for the colonies, apparently for the sole purpose of fondling his gun.
Anyhoo, Mr. Cooke has a child-like screed over at that comforter of white people, National Review, in which he "rants" (his word) about his Turner Diaries-esque fantasy about shooting it out with the government. Here's Herr Cooke:
You’re going to need a plan. A state-by-state, county-by-county, street-by-street, door-to door plan. A detailed roadmap to abolition that involves the military and the police and a whole host of informants — and, probably, a hell of a lot of blood, too.
Charles C.W. Cooke — protecting YOU from gun grabbin’
commies.
And now, here's "Andrew MacDonald" (actually a pointy-headed racist and actual Ph.D physicist named
William Luther Pierce) writing in the introduction to the Turner Diaries:
What will you do when they come to take your guns?
Earl Turner and his fellow patriots face this question and are forced underground when the U.S. government bans the private possession of firearms and stages the mass Gun Raids to round up suspected gun owners. The hated Equality Police begin hunting them down, but the patriots fight back with a campaign of sabotage and assassination. An all-out race war occurs as the struggle escalates.
Full text of this awesome piece of ... literature
here.
But wait, there's more.
Turner Diaries inspired this.
Switching back to Mr. Cooke:
Sure, there are probably between 20 and 30 million Americans who would rather fight a civil war than let you into their houses.
Dr. Pierce:
On the other hand, maybe we should be heartened by the fact that there were still so many of us who had guns then, nearly 18 months after the Cohen Act had outlawed all private ownership of firearms in the United States. It was only because so many of us defied the law and hid our weapons instead of turning them in that the government wasn't able to act more harshly against us after the Gun Raids.
Mr. Cooke:
Make no mistake: It’ll be unpleasant strolling into Pittsburgh or Youngstown or Pueblo and telling blue-collar Democrat after blue-collar Democrat that he only has his guns because he’s not as well endowed as he’d like to be. It’ll be tough explaining to suburban families that their established conception of American liberty is wrong.
"Suburb" BTW in conservaspeak means "white" even if that's not strictly accurate in a demographic sense. See Lee Atwater on effective racist messaging.
And now let us here, for the final time (mercifully), from Dr. Pierce:
As more and more details of the raids leaked out, public restlessness grew. One of the details which bothered people was that the raiders had, for the most part, exempted Black neighborhoods from the searches. The explanation given at first for this was that since "racists" were the ones primarily suspected of harboring firearms, there was relatively little need to search Black homes.
Apparently mere criticism of the Second Amendment religion is enough to set off Mr. Cooke, who, for a warrior wannabe, is remarkably thin-skinned. But let's give him the courtesy of closing this piece, with his imaginary confrontation:
Hey hey, ho ho, the Second Amendment has to go. Let’s do this thing.
When do you get started?