A Nation of Cowards (The Original Essay)
Found this quote while reading “Dismantling the Killer Elite” by William Norman Grigg over at LewRockwell.com:
To own firearms is to affirm that freedom and liberty are not gifts from the state. It is to reserve final judgment about whether the state is encroaching on freedom and liberty, to stand ready to defend that freedom with more than mere words, and to stand outside the state’s totalitarian reach.
The entire essay, by Jeffrey R. Snyder, is entitled “A Nation of Cowards.” It is a gem.
Thank you for the link to that essay. I found your post as I was doing some reading for mine. I am incensed by what I discovered going on in Missouri and … well I’ll let you read mine.
http://www.titanomachy.net/substance/?p=209
Thanks again. It is a gem.
nicholsong
March 19, 2009 at 7:15 am
I didn’t quite agree with some of the generalizations in that essay, but I definitely support the essay’s message. You quoted lines that are the essence of Snyder’s argument, but I also found his conclusion rather stirring:
“This is the uncompromising understanding reflected in the warning that America’s gun owners will not go gently into that good, utopian night: “You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.” While liberals take this statement as evidence of the retrograde, violent nature of gun owners, we gun owners hope that liberals hold equally strong sentiments about their printing presses, word processors, and television cameras.”
lunabomber
March 19, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Hi Daddy!
What IS this about? Maybe I should read the essay to find out. Hope you had a good time @ your dinner!
10punkin16
March 19, 2009 at 11:35 pm