As it comes as no surprise
Bumped to remain on top
Travis Corcoran has had his firearms license revoked. I’d link to the site but you probably know it well, and it’s getting so much traffic it’s returning a 403 AND a 404 right now. (backstory: He made a dumbass comment about the Arizona shooting. I don’t even begin to agree with it, but it is not a reason to steal his rights from him)
Look: Arlington mass is a town pretty much filled with chowderheads of every conceivable type. Here’s a tour of the town, showing you what you can expect, from the town, and from it’s law enforcement officials. In a word, dumbassery.
So, park this on your blog. Keep it on top.
This is a shot fired at our first and second amendment rights. I, also, am TJIC.
Edited to add: I was so damned hot to get this up last night that I failed to credit Pascal, who originally alerted me to the BS, and Mr B, who provided the linkage and the photograph. Soon it will be everywhere.
[…] This is as far as this whole thing should have transpired. Apparently the Arlington Ma. PD felt differently (whether acting alone, or on additional information, or pressure from outside sources, or sources higher up, remains to be seen at this point). They have not only revoked his firearms license, but have confiscated at least some, if not all, of his personal “collection” of firearms. As noted at Borepatch, Neanderpundit , and many others to come, this is a direct violation of the second amendment. […]
Thanks for the tap, but I sent you the alert because I also know that what Travis wrote is the sort of thing those who hate you could not DRUG YOU into uttering.
The trashing of Travis’ rights indeed signals the need to take a strong stand.
But this image is of a last defiance after a defeat. What followed was Crassus (the oldest and wealthiest of the 3 conspirators that would end the Roman Republic) murdering every one of the POWs.
How can a Hollywood contrived scene of a defeat, rather than a fight to the death, be a good symbol to proclaim that a wider struggle is coming?
If the intent was to rally the blogs with the slogan “Not this time.”
I hope you appreciate how troubling I find this image. I want to write strongly against it.
If this image has a musical theme, it would be Tchaikovsky’s last symphony: “Glory in defeat.”
Damn it really worries me buddy. Don’t be sore; help me out here. I’ve been stewing on my own post on the original issue as well as the issue I’m raising about this image being the wrong one.
Maybe you should look at the image for what it actually is: men standing together in defense of one of their fellows, instead of weaving some historical meaning into it where it doesn’t belong. yeah, yeah. This is how it happened, this is what went down, yadda yadda. Sometimes a cigar is just sa fucking cigar.
Dammit Og. You’re a dangerous man. You really know how to piss me off.
Fear the Higher Authority You Arrogant Despots
Overanalize much?
maybe if you spent as much time trying to help as you do trying to dissect the meaning of every comma and every pause in every conversation, you’d accomplish something. Meanwhile, this thing here? it’s a forest. Try not to drive yourself and everyone else batshit crazy bitching about the crooked trunk of one tree.
Funny(not ha ha) this should happen not far from where, “The shot heard round the world” was fired.
Apparently, the authorities weren’t to concerned with the obvious civil rights questions here and that’s a lot scarier than just some guy talking stupid shit on the internet.
Thanks for your support, Og!
@GrumpyUnk:
> Funny(not ha ha) this should happen not far from where, “The shot heard round the world” was fired.
Indeed; I live about four blocks from where Paul Revere road past; much of the heaviest fighting was on the roads in my very neighborhood.
Every day I walk past a monument to where Samuel Whittemore stood up against the Red Coats.
The irony is not lost on me.
[…] I am also TJIC From non-Original Rants, and more, Middle of the Right, Neanderpundit, all of our mothers’ fears have come true and a blogger has had his Second Amendment rights voided due to his exercise of his First Amendment rights. […]