I apologise in advance for lifting this whole thing. The LINK to the original is HERE. I don't like to do this but the whole website was so hard to read and the context of what the author (who did a great job) was lost in the clutter. I could hardly read it. YET, he says the right things. It merits repeating. So I did.
Okay, I give up! I can’t find the politically correct way of saying
it. I cannot find the fluffy adjectives and velvet phrases. I have
thought over and over of a way to say the following without sounding
like some paranoid, racist, knuckle-dragging “Ruby Ridge” nutcase, yet
find myself at a loss, for there are very few ways of saying it: this
current “war on guns” is really a war on anything that smacks of “White,
male, rugged ruralism”… and the more Christian the better.
This
is what the Left is ultimately after; what it ultimately detests.
It is
its mortal enemy. And this is what this war on guns is about,
point-blank (no pun intended).
Shwoo! There. I said it. And no,
my liberal friends, I have dated and loved/love people of every color
of the rainbow, so don’t even think of accusing me of being some Randy
Weaver nutcase — but that’s the point: the Left has construed this
“conversation” about guns to such a degree that stating what it is
really about leaves any honest, critically thinking person with no other
choice but to sound like some nutty White separatist type. And I hate
it.
I hate saying there is a cultural war from mainly
urban-dwelling, over-educated, secular, conceited and oh-so “hip”
liberal elites against their perceived polar opposites (the presumably
less educated, rural-dwelling, conservative, more masculine, more pious,
and predominately Caucasian areas —“fly-over country” as it’s called).
I
hate saying that the emaciated, androgynous yuppie next to me in the
Starbucks in downtown Washington is “at war” with the 50-year-old
husband and father 30 miles to the south of us who owns guns, obeys the
law, has distinct notions of “right and wrong,” comes home from work
with muddy boots, attends church and speaks with a rural accent … I hate
saying all of this.
When I envision this “50-year-old man” I
think of my ex-girlfriend’s father, who I will simply call “Mr. H.” He
was a hulking, strong silent type who just wanted to be left alone;
alone to teach his kids what he wished, found nobility in hard work,
loved his wife, who wanted his kids home at a set time every night,
including those he adopted; a man who loved Christ yet did not exploit
that love by throwing it in people’s faces haphazardly; a man who not
only harbored hated towards no race or religion, but indeed helped
people of every race and religion, mainly through work at his church; a
man who built his house with his own hands, literally, tended the acres
on which it sat in Howard County, Maryland … and who OWNED GUNS (gasp)!
Now,
thanks to the Left, I have discovered an unknown love for my ex’s
father, “Mr. H.” But this love is born out of reflex (because the Left
hates this man so, so much).
“Mr. H.” didn’t go to college. He
couldn’t tell you the difference between a Sikh and a Muslim, nor Shia
from Sunni. He couldn’t quote Lord Byron or Krishnamurti. He never ate
sushi. He never drank overpriced syrah or sipped a $5.00 caramel
latte. He didn’t know the latest exploits of Hollywood celebrities.
No,
Mr. H. didn’t know much by liberal standards. But he did know this:
how to be one of the greatest human beings anyone could know, be they
any race, creed or color. … And now, now (?!), liberals want to use
Sandy Hook to again attack and destroy this humble man in the name of
some B.S. “war on guns?” No way!
“Mr. H.” is the type of man who
built America, which by default leaves his “culture” inextricably
entwined with this “gun culture” liberals are raging about. This war on
guns is nothing more than a war on this man and all those of similar
demographics. This may sound absurd, repugnant, paranoid, even
race-based, but it is not. This is the truth (sorry for still residing
in the People’s Republic of Reality).
Trust me,
folks, I was raised as a liberal. I live side-by-side with them today;
many are my friends, neighbors, and I know how they think. “Mr. H.” and
all things pertaining to “White Male Ruralism” are responsible for
nothing positive in America to my former self/liberals. I was taught
this. I believed this. I lived this … I. Know. This.
To the
Left, the “Mr. Hs.” of America are only responsible for the
extermination of Native Americans. He is only responsible for slavery,
Jim Crow laws, the KKK and Black lynchings in the South. He is
responsible for the state of Black America in our cities today. He
denied women the right to vote and wants to control what they do with
their “lady parts.” He is responsible for corporations pumping toxic
waste into rivers and oceans and for that poor polar bear trapped on
that shrinking iceberg.
“Mr. H.” and his toothless, ignorant
ilk are responsible for underage girls being sexually abused in
(Christian) polygamist cults. Mr. H. wanted nuclear war and created
AIDS to get rid of minorities and “them queers” in the 1980s. Mr. H.
wants to throw your granny off a cliff if she becomes too expensive for
Medicare. …And of course, “Mr. H.” is ultimately responsible for that
oh-so horrid Second Amendment and the virtual holocaust it has unleashed
— Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Oak Creek, Tuscan, now Sandy Hook;
hence the linchpin in our argument here.
Indeed, to liberals “Mr.
H.” and his Cro-Magnon brethren are responsible for every act of
violence, exploitation, extermination, and discrimination in America,
ever. There can be no other “cult-prit” to the Leftist.
So
who cares if stricter gun laws will not prevent further Sandy Hooks? Who
cares if only law abiding citizens will be burdened by the likes of NY
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the rest of the gun-grabbers. All that matters to
the Left is being able to again destroy a little bit more of the
lifestyle, the “culture of Mr. H.” that has become synonymous with that
“traditional America” they find so revolting. This hypnotic thrust for
more gun control is simply another excuse for the devoutly liberal, the
devoutly smug, and the devoutly emotion-consumed elitist to again lash
out at that so obscure yet somehow all-controlling “traditional America”
that lurks so frighteningly outside their cities; that “traditional
America” they view as equivalent to Nazi Germany.
For respect of the
Second Amendment is a keystone to that “traditional America” they so
abhor — all things rural, masculine, and Caucasian (and the more
Christian the better).
I have used the word “guns” in this
article scantly because this is not about guns. This is about an
attack on a culture. It’s not necessarily a “racial attack,” for many
gun-haters are White. It’s not necessarily a “religious attack,” for
many gun-haters are Christians. It’s not an “education attack,” for
many gun-haters lack college degrees. This is not a “gender attack,”
for many gun-haters are men.
This isn’t even a “redneck attack,”
for gun-haters live in those weird and dangerous “fly over” lands.
What this is, though, is another and well–disguised attack on those who
unfortunately fit all of the above descriptions. It is an attack upon
all of whom and that which the Left perceives has prevented America from
being what they wished it to be since its conception.
Also, and
let’s be honest, I have inadvertently and unfortunately spoken to the
likes of the filth and human debris of White supremacist websites and
organizations. But this is not some Randy Weaver-ish tirade about “all
them Jews and coloreds” that are out to get me. It’s really the White,
30-something hipster in my local Starbucks that’s out to get me. This
is about a culture, and a “culture” needn’t be restricted by race or
creed.
Realize what this “war on guns” is really a war on. To
twist the famous phrase from the great political strategist, James
Carville: “It’s the culture, stupid!” Too bad that culture sprang from
predominantly European, male, rural, heterosexual Christians.
