A Dixie Carpetbagger

Via the Scalawag, Judge Napolitano, the Cato Institute and Dr. Lott on the MacDonald case. 

Via Robb, a great Gura quote: “Justice Sotomayor, States may have grown accustomed to violating the rights of American citizens, but that does not bootstrap those violations into something that is constitutional”

Jay, Weer’d, Linoge and Miguel respond to Sebastian.  Miguel makes the point that: “McDonald is not just a “case” or an argument or a amicus curiae. Mr. McDonald is a human being which was denied the tools for defensing himself in a violent neighborhood.”

This is correct.  However, there are two quotes that lay out how I feel about this– “… as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise” (Luke 6:31– the “Golden Rule”) and “[y]our enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can [eliminate] him without hate — and quickly.”  (Bob Heinlein)

Put simply, the Bradys think that they’re right.  The pro-rights groups (and the majority of Americans) disagree.  We’ll win eventually, and people like this woman will become discredited and objects of scorn.

To lighten the mood, and play you out with music, Laurel’s take on the McDonald case.  Please secure your beverage…

O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,
has a wondrous attraction for me;
for the dear Lamb of God left his glory above
to bear it to dark Calvary.

I’ve seen it in the lightning,
heard it in the thunder,
and felt it in the rain;
My LORD is near me all the time,
My LORD is near me all the time.

This post by Linoge kept tickling the back of my mind. I just figured out what it reminded me of.

O, the parallels! A man who was given his position and enjoys what those before him have built up getting a message… and not being able to understand it, but knowing that he needed to be afraid. One verse in particular makes me smile.

¹⁷Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

Makes me want to dress up in the heigth of Babylonian fashion and make a trip to D. C. “This is the writing that has been written, Mr. President: TOO FAR, TOO FAR, FAILURE, ROLL BACK. “

In the past week, we’ve lost two good people in the gun community: rightwingprof and Byron Quick.  I’ve never met either one of them, but I did know of them, and it’s always sad to lose someone from the community.

Here’s a toast to absent friends, with the faith that we’ll meet again.

(Via Sebastian and Tam)

Via Breda, a prayer request.  The short version is that a man killed his wife and mother-in-law, wounded his father-in-law, and the man’s kids were present.

The man making the request quotes from Job, but I find Job as a whole too dark.  So, I will leave you with a quote from the Psalmist.

¹² Arise, O LORD!
O God, lift up Your hand!
Do not forget the humble.

¹³ Why do the wicked renounce God?
He has said in his heart,
“You will not require an account.”

¹⁴ But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief,
To repay it by Your hand.
The helpless commits himself to You;
You are the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man;
Seek out his wickedness until You find none.