On the face of it, the AHSA was an answer to the NRA—a grassroots group for gun owners who want more gun restrictions. In reality, it was a front group masterminded by a contractor for the Brady Center, a donor to Handgun Control Inc., and a founder of Stop Handgun Violence. When, in 2010, AHSA announced that it was shutting its doors for lack of members, nobody was especially surprised: That’s what happens when you build a political outfit to accommodate a political bloc that doesn’t actually exist.
Charles C.W. Cooke
December 26, 2016
Phantoms Of Gun Control
[It’s all Potemkin Villages.—Joe]
You’ll know what they’re doing by observing their accusations. They’ve long accused us of faking grass roots interest and of having front groups for large, monied interests seeking profit.
The notion of millions of individuals seeking liberty for liberty’s sake eludes them, yet the evidence is all around. We actively oppose the Progressive authoritarians for example, even while acknowledging them as a major factor in our success in the sale of guns and related products. The NRA has had no better “friend”, in terms of recruitment, than Obama and the Clintons, and yet have campaigned against them with vigor.
Democrat/Marxist/authoritarian organizations strive to become large and powerful– Once they win, they’ll control everything. A proper libertarian organization strives to become irrelevant– Once they win, their purpose will be fulfilled and they can disband.
The authoritarian can in no way ever understand the latter, and so he will hatefully and sarcastically accuse the libertarian of being an authoritarian in tawdry disguise.
Such is the way of the world.
When daughter Kim was taking an economics class at the University of Idaho one of the books she brought home for me to read was about the evils of the capitalists “forcing free market economics” upon other countries. I don’t understand how someone can have a mind so messed up that they can believe sentences that are self contradictory. But the multitude of examples of such demonstrates they are, by mathematical measures, “normal”.
Or, as the Second Law in SJWs Always Lie tells us: SJWs always project.
They lie, cheat, and seek power over others, so they assume everyone else does too, and for the same reasons. You can know what they are thinking by a simple examination of the accusations they hurl. They are AstroTurf, so they accuse us of being AstroTurf; they are a Potemkin front for monied special interests, so they assume we are too; they know the “facts” they spout are lies, so they assume our our too without any examination or thought, etc.
all for voltaire, … , even yet. to impress “the ones” with superior sensibilities. me, i don’t have superior sensibilities …. i kind of rely on the time tested ones. like preserving my scrawny old ass, first and foremost.