A Dixie Carpetbagger

“[This] should be repeated and become The 5th Rule: STOP TOUCHING IT.” – DirtCrashr

Via Tam, who tips the hat to Uncle, who got the original from Linoge, a blog where a person of the anti-gun persuasion gets all bent about an incident where a criminal had a gun fall from his pocket, which discharged and injured a man. Said blogger then becomes highly upset when pro-gun commenters point out that her idea to, you know, “just leave it in the car” isn’t such a great idea. Time passes, and blogger’s husband comes to her rescue-

“You, however, have demonstrated considerable irresponsibility in your arguments and in your personal attacks on this blogger, who also happens to be my wife. Send me your home address and I’ll come to your house and punch your fucking face in. Unless you are a pussy who can’t fight without a gun in his hand.”

“Ok, a boxing match, then. I’m not immature, I just like hitting conservative assholes.”

Okay, so a leftist lawyer (who claims to not be anti-gun) makes anti-gun comments, gets quoted statistics, deletes the posts containing the statistics (but not the responses to those posts), and has her hubby (who might be making a Congressional run) join the fight. She then begins to back off her previous comments, and makes cracks about how the pro-gun bloggers always go after small fry like her, and not the big anti-gun organizations.

Err, pro-gun bloggers *do* take on the anti-gun organizations. Pro-gun bloggers are the reason the Brady blog no longer allows comments, one of us (Caleb) has appeared on national T.V., and even the small pro-gun organizations bring in more money than the major anti-gun organizations. There’s also been a few pro-gun cases won in the Supreme Court (Hey, isn’t she a lawyer? Shouldn’t she know this?) lately, with a few more looking likely in the future.

But, as Linoge points out, this boils down to projecting their fears and emotions onto others. The unfounded fear (a.k.a. phobia) of a few does not mean that the rights of the majority can be infringed. As he says: “Unfortunately, their basic psychological projection is far from understandable – not everyone has the same fears and weaknesses that they do, and not everyone should be bound by their fears and weaknesses. Claiming otherwise is controlling, irrational, illogical, and petty.”

Weer’d Beard has a post where he refers to a post by Mike W. that perfectly describes this series of events. Mike’s post is almost a year old, which prompted Weer’d to say “[Mike] penned it over a year ago, and it has predicted EVERY anti-rights advocate since. That’s a better track record than Nostradamus!”  Well, they are easy to predict… same start point, same output, same end point…

I do find it ironic, though, that the people who are almost carbon copies of each other try to claim that the other side is made of shills and idiots.  No, that’s not projection, whatsoever…