{"id":4730,"date":"2018-03-01T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/01\/why-i-carry-a-gun\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:45:09","slug":"why-i-carry-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/01\/why-i-carry-a-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Carry a Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Mirabile dictu<\/em>, not everything <em>The Atlantic<\/em> publishes these days is left-wing crap. Never-Trumper David French <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2018\/02\/gun-culture\/554351\/\">explains<\/a> why he carries. (HT: Bill Keezer) <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It is rather curious, though. Here is a guy who not only supports Second Amendment rights, but also exercises them by keeping firearms in his home and bearing them on his person. And yet he either voted for Hillary the gun-grabber or refused to vote for Trump whose conservative accomplishments have been stellar in just one year.&#0160; What bloody sense does that make? You support the person who opposes your values?&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Another thing that angers me about French is that before the election he published an anti-Trump piece in which he referred to the Wall of Trump as a &quot;pipe dream.&quot; That is the kind of disgusting, supine defeatism that you would expect from a pseudo-conservative like Jeb! Bush.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&#39;Liberals&#39; need to understand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arizonagunshows.net\/\">what they are up against<\/a> in their crusade to strip Americans of their Constitutional rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">You &#39;liberals&#39; are profoundly stupid and lazy. If you want fewer guns in civilian hands, stop your screeching and emoting.&#0160; Study the issues. Learn the terminology. Take a course in logic.&#0160; Read the Constitution. Open your minds. Shut your lying mouths. 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Never-Trumper David French explains why he carries. (HT: Bill Keezer) It is rather curious, though. Here is a guy who not only supports Second Amendment rights, but also exercises them by keeping firearms in his home and bearing them on his person. 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