Not a bad view? I dunno boys, maybe it's because I missed my nap and I'm cranky, but I got p!$$ed at paragraph one and was boiling in my own vitriol by time I finished it.
It seemed to me that Wright took every chance he could to paint us and our lifestyle as loony. It's long, but here's what I wrote him and the horse he rode in on:
"Sir:
This is a copy of a Letter to the Editor re: your article.
Editor:
The article "Finishing school - The New Hampshire seminar to take when you absolutely, positively need to kill someone tomorrow by Chris Wright" was absolutely scary.
Not Mr. Ayoob, or what he does, or the citizens taking that course. It is absolutely scary that someone like Chris Wright is walking around loose. One wonders, with his current liberal mindset, how he has survived this long.
While he correctly reports the defense mindset, he puts the usual liberal spin on the basic right to defend you and yours and exposes his distrust of his fellow citizens, to wit:
“But it's difficult not to, not when you know you're about to be surrounded by armed citizens, alone, in the middle of the wilderness.”
Hello? He would rather be surrounded by armed criminals, alone, in the middle of the wilderness? I doubt if this class of people have the fear of the law hanging over THEIR heads.
"In many ways, LFI isn't a class in killing people. It's a class in NOT killing them.
Ayoob finds himself in the CURIOUS [my emphasis] position of believing the best way to prevent gun violence is to teach people how to commit it."
Ye Gods, it's a class on how to successfully defend your life, as stated above, without having the wrath of society descend upon you because you survived instead of "that poor, misunderstood unfortunate". I guess to the liberal mind, it WOULD be "curious" to think of defending yourself.
"I've never held a gun before, let alone fired one, and having the thing in my hand gives me the jitters. I grasp it as if it were trying to escape, gripping so hard my knuckles seem about to pop through the skin. I hold in my hand the power over life and death. Like an avenging angel. A GOD."
Jesus Christ! [no pun intended}, what is the matter with this man? Again, the liberal spin that a gun is evil incarnate and somehow ALIVE. Does he feel the same way when he picks up a butcher knife? The first time I picked up a gun, I admired the heft and workmanship of metal and wood. Whose mindset would you prefer?
"I'm not planning on shooting anyone. I mean, who plans for such contingencies [it's called situational awareness, sometimes the difference is whether you live or die] -- where to put the bullet, what to say to "the archetype of the beast," how to beat the murder rap?"
More spin. NO ONE who is not a violent criminal plans on shooting anyone. You shoot to defend you and yours, period. Do not try to kill me and mine and I will leave you alone, no matter what kind of gun I may be carrying. BEAT THE MURDER RAP? Notice how he makes no distinction between Murder One and justifiable self-defense? What would he prefer to say to "the archetype of the beast"
-- "PLEASE, don't hurt me?".
"The Lethal Force Institute is kind of a crazy idea. Or at least a very American idea. Nowhere else on earth is the ideal of armed self-defense etched so firmly into the social contract. Every American has the license to kill."
What is the color of the sky where this man comes from? Ask all those defenseless people in Africa who were hacked to death with machetes, or those in Bosnia who stood there facing the ditch if they wouldn't have wanted that "firmly etched" right of self defense. License to kill? Is this man a James Bond fantasizer? Evidently the only ones "licensed to kill" were the FBI and BATF types at Waco and Ruby Ridge.
I suggest that Mr. Wright be less suspicious about legally armed and trained citizens and concern himself more with the attitude of a government who fears it's people having arms.
Now, when will we see a similarly slanted article about the FBI shooting school at Quantico, Va.?
Yours, etc."
I can go through virtually every paragraph and write up a counter argument -- the article is riddled with his sophistry and lies.
I've also saved a copy, not because of the self-defense (I will get Ayoob's books), but as a classic media liberal spin document.
Excuse, me, I gotta go barf now.
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
