Neanderpundit

That there is anything more satisfying than sliding between the sheets after a hard days physical labor and feeling yourself slip quickly off to sleep?

is shooting off his mouth again about guns, a subject about which he is as devoid of actual knowledge as fish are of double zero bifurcation.

The constant and ongoing issue with the first and second amendments is that everyone assumes “freedom” means “I can do whatever I want”. As I have explained before, ‘Freedom” does not mean you can do what you want; it means that your worst enemy can do the thing you hate most, directly in front of you, and you can’t do a thing to stop him.

You cannot, however, legislate the consequences out of actions. If someone were to disparage my family or my child within my earshot, they would have to accept the consequences of their freedom to speak. I would probably have to go to court, and hire a lawyer, and maybe I’d even do some time for assault; but that person would have learned a valuable lesson about what is appropriate to say and to whom. Because I would not stop teaching until the lesson was learned- though personal experience has shown me that the lesson is learned quickly.

This is how it’s supposed to be done. In 82, Bob McKeown, that leftist hustler from “The Fifth Estate” was “Exposing” the bad filming on many popular nature shows- he had done a hit piece on how Disney had massaged things for the camera, including pushing lemmings off a cliff for one of their specials. McKeown approached Marlin Perkins- on the record- with a question as to whether Perkins had ever done anything of the sort.

Perkins, a preeminent Zoologist and herpetologist who had already had a long career at the Lincoln Park Zoo and the St Lous Zoo prior to his term at Wild Kingdom, did what every man does when a sniveling rat turd questions his integrity. He asked for the cameras to be turned off, and punched McKeown right in the face. Perkins was 76 or 78 at the time, if memory serves, but he still did some good punching.

McKeown is still around these days, and still shooting off his mouth- but only because the last man with the balls to demonstrate to him the consequences of his actions is dead and gone.

Footnote: The Original “Wild Kingdom” was all about conservation and proper management of resources, just like NatGeo was years ago. Now both still have TV shows, but they’re about envirowhacko bullshit, and they ought all to be shot in the face. It makes me sick to watch, I swear to God.