tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post8892407933372163036..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: Gun Control: Lexington Green Arising?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-15005512743075805502013-02-03T12:16:17.753-05:002013-02-03T12:16:17.753-05:00John, I'd hazard a guess that Ed means because...John, I'd hazard a guess that Ed means because the lefties (incredibly) don't see the threat to the First Amendment - which they do still - presumably?! - hold dear - that their favored policies represent, and (hopefully) when they do they are likely to object.<br /><br />I also concur with you that hopefully - somehow - there will be enough remaining sense of life/being American left that when things really erode people will stand up. But present trends certainly are not encouraging....Tim Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06319251326099194934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-35319088296248163562013-01-28T18:42:54.554-05:002013-01-28T18:42:54.554-05:00Because the First Amendment is better understood t...Because the First Amendment is better understood than the Second Amendment, more obviously important?<br /><br />Just curious as to your thinking.<br /><br />By the way, I just discovered that <a href="http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/72069/Cyrano-De-Bergerac/" rel="nofollow">Cyrano de Bergerac</a> will be on TCM tonight. For some reason, at TCM's site for the movie it doesn't show it scheduled for tonight - it shows it for March 1 - but if you look at the page for <a href="http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/61175%7C0/Jose-Ferrer/filmography.html" rel="nofollow">Jose Ferrer's filmography</a> there, it does, in the title bar.<br /><br />Check your local listings if interested.John Shepardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424458889560274756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-55784225324413497312013-01-28T18:04:23.330-05:002013-01-28T18:04:23.330-05:00If there's an incident over gun registration o...If there's an incident over gun registration or confiscation, that alone might not touch off a Lexington Green type confrontation. What is more likely is a confrontation over the First Amendment. Then that might devolve into a Second Amendment conflict. Ed<br />Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-962673423989869942013-01-28T17:21:31.674-05:002013-01-28T17:21:31.674-05:00We are where we are. There's still the uniquel...We are where we are. There's still the uniquely American sense of life, born in the early years of this country and it's intellectual roots, though it's being eroded and has been eroding for decades.<br /><br />My hope is that, like the proverbial frog in water, before that sense of life - of independence and individualism, love of life and hope for a better future grounded in the individual's own self-responsible efforts - has been ground away and forgotten to history, enough Americans finally grasp that we're in a pot and that the temperature of the water is rising fast, too rapidly to deny, and that this ominous, bleak future so obviously ahead of us is at last rejected with a full embrace of the principle of individual rights.<br /><br />The right ideas are there, available for any who yearning for freedom. And as Dr. Peikoff says, "To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think."<br /><br />Long Live Lady Liberty!John Shepardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424458889560274756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-42060121021330658572013-01-28T16:37:12.243-05:002013-01-28T16:37:12.243-05:00As always, thank you, Ed.
Long Live Lady Liberty!...As always, thank you, Ed.<br /><br />Long Live Lady Liberty!John Shepardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424458889560274756noreply@blogger.com