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Condition Orange and The Real Gun Guys

Is life so dear,
or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me,
give me liberty or give me death!

– Patrick Henry at the second Virginia Convention, on March 23, 1775, in St. John’s Church, Richmond.

Patrick Henry was born on May 29, 1736, in Studley, Virginia. He was a brilliant orator and an influential leader in the opposition to British government. As a young lawyer, he astonished his courtroom audience in 1763 with an eloquent defense based on the doctrine of natural rights—the political theory that man is born with certain inalienable rights.

On his twenty-ninth birthday, as a new member of Virginia’s House of Burgesses, Henry presented a series of resolutions—the Stamp Act Resolves—which opposed Britain’s Stamp Act. The Resolves were adopted on May 30, 1765. He concluded his introduction of the Resolves with the fiery words “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third—” when, it is reported, voices cried out, “Treason! treason!” He continued, “—and George the Third may profit by their example! If this be treason make the most of it.”

Read more about Patrick Henry here at the Library of Congress

Anti-gun nuts tout the benefits of having a ‘cooling off period’ after buying a gun, as if everyone who buys a gun is angry, or likely to use it in anger. You have already passed a background check and have skipped buying it from the corner drug and illegal arms dealer, so why impose an extra burden? Hell if I know, non of what they do makes sense to me.

To further illustrate the idiocy of a waiting period we have this story which comes to us from The Smallest Minority. The quick over view is an employer has an irate former employee threaten his and his family’s lives, goes and buys a gun, is subjected to a 3 day waiting period, and on day 2 is attacked in front of his house.

It isn’t clear from the story if any of the attackers were actually connected to the former employee, but it sure would be a strange coincidence if they weren’t.