{"id":9076,"date":"2013-01-09T16:21:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/09\/i-will-not-be-intimidated\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T16:21:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:21:20","slug":"i-will-not-be-intimidated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/09\/i-will-not-be-intimidated\/","title":{"rendered":"I Will Not Be Intimidated"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Steve McCann.  Excerpt<\/a>:<\/p>\n

According  to the current incarnation of the American left, who traffic constantly in  victimhood and noble intentions, I should be in the vanguard of the mandatory  gun control and confiscation movement.  That somehow it was the inanimate  object this soldier was holding and not him that was responsible for the attempt  on my life or to ignore the fact that his mindset was such he would have used  any weapon at hand to accomplish the same goal.   <\/span><\/p>\n

On  the contrary, I own a handgun today because of the experience of coming face to  face with the evil that permeates some men's souls. I and the girl I rescued  were defenseless.  There were no police or armed citizens around and the  death of another homeless and unknown boy and girl, buried in an unmarked mass  grave, would have been just another easily ignored casualty of the post-War  period.  I was determined that I would never again face a similar  circumstance. I have had in my possession firearms for virtually my entire life,  as I have been fortunate to live in the one nation on earth that has embedded in  its founding document the right to bear arms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today,  I am, along with a vast majority of my fellow citizens, being made the scapegoat  for the failed policies of the so-called progressives — whether it is the  inability of society to deal with extreme psychopaths or the mentally deranged,  because the left insists they are entitled to the same rights as other citizens,  or the never-ending attempt to rehabilitate criminals incapable of  rehabilitation. Consistent with their inability to ever admit a mistake, the  left and much of the Democratic Party  instead focuses on symbolism over  substance and the path of least resistance — going after the law-abiding hard working people who are the backbone of  America.<\/span><\/p>\n

But  the motivation is more insidious than that. Those that self-identify as  progressives, leftists, socialists or Marxists, have one overwhelming trait in  common:  they are narcissists who believe they are pre-ordained to rule the  masses too ignorant to govern themselves. Over the past thirty years as these  extremists fully infiltrated academia, the mainstream media, the entertainment  industry and taken over the Democratic Party, the American people have lost many  of their individual rights. They are now being told what they can eat, where  they can live, who they must associate with, where and how their children must  be educated, and soon what medical care they are allowed to access, as well as  the type of car they can drive and the amount of energy they are permitted to  use.<\/span><\/p>\n

The  last bastion of freedom is unfettered gun ownership, so that too must go.   That the left is willfully and egregiously exploiting the actions of a deranged  psychopath in the tragic death of 26 people (20 children) in Newtown,  Connecticut to achieve this end exposes their true  motivation.<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Steve McCann.  Excerpt: According  to the current incarnation of the American left, who traffic constantly in  victimhood and noble intentions, I should be in the vanguard of the mandatory  gun control and confiscation movement.  That somehow it was the inanimate  object this soldier was holding and not him that was responsible for the attempt  … Continue reading “I Will Not Be Intimidated”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}