Oregon Liberal in a Gun Store

[Foothills]

https://unherd.com/2021/11/the-liberal-case-for-gun-ownership

[MJB]

He's right

[WartHog]

That was very refreshing to read, especially coming from the mind of a self-professed Liberal...

[twinfin]

I thought this line of thought was intriguing:

[The Gleam]

It's a good article from an evolving Leftist, but has two glaring and fatal errors.

First, his assumption of it soley being civilian arms against military arms being no match; that's not the point.

The point is we have a greater volume in numbers and those guns are more than sufficient to be used to overcome and secure the very bases and/or weaponry, artillery, tanks, etc. for The People (which belong to us anyway) that he is citing the government has (he incorrectly cites the military having "fully automatic" weapons being a huge dividing factor when really it's not, considering the actual implementation of full auto vs. semi-auto).

And if our military refused to use more destructive means it has at its disposal against Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the like, it's surely not going to ply such weaponry here on U.S. soil. So the match-up is not as uneven as he thinks, regardles of his fox to coyote comparison.

Second, he continues to stand by his lack of common-sense and infers he will continue to vote for the very NeoSocialist Leftist that are inviting totalitarianism and emerging from their deceptive chrysallis as the very tyrants he abhors. His "on the other hand" focus on Australia clearly shows that, and yet he still finishes the article in denial that his repeat Leftist voting is not the cause, not part of the problem.

He hints that he is beginning to see how "tyranny may descend on us" but then will continue to vote for people like Biden, Harris, Newsom, Kate Brown, and Ted Wheeler at his own peril, and to the peril of his fellow citizens.

Hopefully his article is just his evolutionary trajectory at 2/3rds of the way, but I suspect this is as far as he gets, and once the shamdemic ceases, he will still blindly vote for Marxist values, remain "mixed" on the 2nd Amendment, and still call for people-control by way of voting for even more gun-control.

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[the_tunaman]

It's a good article from an evolving Leftist, but has two glaring and fatal errors.

First, his assumption of it soley being civilian arms against military arms being no match; that's not the point.

The point is we have a greater volume in numbers and those guns are more than sufficient to be used to overcome and secure the very bases and/or weaponry, artillery, tanks, etc. for The People (which belong to us anyway) that he is citing the government has (he incorrectly cites the military having "fully automatic" weapons being a huge dividing factor when really it's not, considering the actual implementation of full auto vs. semi-auto).

And if our military refused to use more destructive means it has at its disposal against Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the like, it's surely not going to ply such weaponry here on U.S. soil. So the match-up is not as uneven as he thinks, regardles of his fox to coyote comparison.

Second, he continues to stand by his lack of common-sense and infers he will continue to vote for the very NeoSocialist Leftist that are inviting totalitarianism and emerging from their deceptive chrysallis as the very tyrants he abhors. His "on the other hand" focus on Australia clearly shows that, and yet he still finishes the article in denial that his repeat Leftist voting is not the cause, not part of the problem.

He hints that he is beginning to see how "tyranny may descend on us" but then will continue to vote for people like Biden, Harris, Newsom, Kate Brown, and Ted Wheeler at his own peril, and to the peril of his fellow citizens.

Hopefully his article is just his evolutionary trajectory at 2/3rds of the way, but I suspect this is as far as he gets, and once the shamdemic ceases, he will still blindly vote for Marxist values, remain "mixed" on the 2nd Amendment, and still call for people-control by way of voting for even more gun-control.

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[Milsurp Collector]

He might be in Oregon now, but he was born and educated in...wait for it...California.

Weinstein, a native of Southern California, began his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. As a freshman, he wrote a letter to the school newspaper that condemned sexual harassment of strippers at a Zeta Beta Tau fraternity party. After experiencing harassment for the letter, he transferred to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he completed his undergraduate degree in 1993. Weinstein received a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 2009.

He was called a racist and was hounded away by the intolerant left from his teaching position at Evergreen College in Washington in an incident that garnered national attention.

In March 2017, Weinstein wrote a letter to Evergreen faculty in which he objected to a change in the college's decades-old tradition of observing a "Day of Absence", during which ethnic minority students and faculty would voluntarily stay away from campus to highlight their contributions to the college. The change to the event asked white participants to stay off campus, to attend a program on race issues, while the on-campus program was designated for people of color. Weinstein wrote that the change established a dangerous precedent:



The event organizers responded that participation was voluntary and that the event did not imply that all white people should leave. The Washington Post reported that racial tensions had been simmering at Evergreen throughout 2017.

In May 2017, student protests disrupted the campus and called for a number of changes to the college. The protests involved allegations of racism, intolerance and threats; brought national attention to Evergreen; and sparked further debate about free speech on college campuses. During the protests, protesters entered one of Weinstein's classes (which he had held in a public park) and confronted him, loudly accusing him of racism, demanding that he resign, and forcing the class to break up. Weinstein was advised by the Chief of Campus Police to temporarily stay away from campus for his safety.

Weinstein and his wife, Heather Heying, brought a lawsuit against the school, alleging that the college's president had not asked campus police to quell student protesters. Weinstein also said that campus police had told him that they could not protect him, and that they had encouraged him to stay off campus. Instead, Weinstein held his biology class that day in a public park. A settlement was reached in September 2017 in which Weinstein and Heying resigned and received $250,000 each, after having sought $3.8 million in damages.

[stormvet]

It’s like when a child first learns 1+1=2.

[deerdeerdeer]

Does the CGN accept him with bear arms, or do we tell him to eat some donuts up in Portland.