My three-year-old
grandson, Grant, speaks a fascinating language where
he replaces nouns with verb phrases. For example, a
fish is a “catch-a-water”, an airplane is a
“brrrr-up” and a gun is a “shoot-it.” Since his
mother is a type-A, speech and language pathologist,
I don’t worry about Grant’s speech peculiarity,
that’s her job, but he blurted a phrase last
Saturday which made me chuckle. All six of my
grandkids were feeding at Fuddruckers in Great Falls
where marketing experts have cleverly melded a video
arcade into the dining experience. (A hamburger and
fries are now the cheapest part of family dining.)
Grant broke his hamburger into tiny pieces, mixed it
with his catsup and fries and then covered it with
his napkin; he finished lunch without actually
swallow anything. Grant tugged at my sleeve with his
left hand, while he dug in my pocket for quarters
with his right hand, all while hollering,
“Shoot-the-cow!”
Apparently “shoot-the-cow” means let’s feed dollars
into the arcade machines. You could be driving a
video race car, or playing air hockey but every
joystick is a gun and the term for the activity is
“shoot-the-cow.” As the machines sucked all the hard
earned dollars from my wallet I studied my daughter
and son-in-law and wondered, “From which side of
Grant’s redneck, road-hunting, heritage does the
term ‘shoot-the-cow’ originate?” Granted, the Kerns
side hails from the Crow Reservation of southern
Montana, and the Kimmel side was cultured on the
Turner grasslands of northern Montana, so a chinook
wind blows ripe rednecks from every branch of the
family tree. It is hard to be certain, but I told
you this story so you would understand gun rights
run deeply in both my ancestors and progeny, and
this brings me to my point.
Your right to “keep and bear arms” is about to be
infringed. The Second Amendment is not about
hunting, sport shooting, sportsmen access to public
lands or gun collecting, it’s about freedom. Our
founders placed it number two in the Bill of Rights
so the ruling class must always seek the consent of
the governed…a well armed governed actually.
Unfortunately, gun-control politicians are masters
of deception. As long as they can fool 50.1 percent
of the voters to think they are pro-gun, the con
continues…all while they incrementally tighten the
gun-control noose. Do you need proof?
In March of 2010 the Obama administration switched
positions so as to prohibit the importation of
850,000 Korean War era, used M1 semi-automatic
rifles into the United States from South Korea. Fox
News reports the US State Department said the
decision was “based on concerns that the guns could
fall into the wrong hands.” Could the wrong hands be
the once free Americans guaranteed a right which
shall not be infringed? To deceptively show they are
pro-gun, last week Montana’s Senators Baucus and
Tester proposed legislation lifting this ban.
Gun-control progressives will flock to cosponsor
this bill because it sounds so pro-freedom, but are
you aware what they are doing with the hand hidden
behind their back? Let me explain.
Two recent US Supreme Court decisions affirmed your
rights to keep and bear arms: DC v. Heller in 2008
and McDonald v. Chicago in 2010. Both decisions were
handed down on a five to four vote, so four
progressive justices interpret the Constitution
allows the infringement of gun rights. President
Obama Supreme Court appointee, Justice Sotomayor,
voted with the minority as likely will newest
appointee, Elena Kagan. Americans are just one
Supreme Court vote away from being disarmed and both
these progressive justices were confirmed by
progressive senators…the same ones deceptively
clamoring to lift the M1 gun ban. Gun owners must
understand your battle is in the Supreme Court and
you don’t affirm your gun rights with bullets, you
do so with ballots. Your vote means things and
progressives want you disarmed. Think about it.
In the 2009 Montana Legislative session I
successfully sponsored legislation affirming a
Montanan’s fundamental right of self defense and the
right to keep and bear arms. Because we are so close
to losing gun rights, I want Montana Code filled
with verbiage declaring our rights to self
preservation…sort of a thorn in the side of those
advocating for a tyrannical, unconstitutional,
federal government. My task is not complete and,
should the voters in HD#58 return me to office, I
have more to do in 2011. The line is drawn!
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