The Fight to Bear Arms

[LS1]

Good read.

Anyone Who Cares About Gun Laws Should Pay Attention To What’s Happening In Idaho

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...o-redoubt-gun-control-rights-second-amendment

 

[slsc98]

Excellent read (tad heavy on the “buildup” but, I guess that’s why “buzz” figures in the name); and, once the article gets going, much meat on the bone - Thanks for Posting It Up!

My homesteader nephew and his wife are presently in Linden, VA and they have been eye-balling Idaho VERY STRONGLY, for some time now ....

 

[motorcoachdoug]

Thank you for the posting. I have a 1st cousin who lives in ID and they love it their as well.

 

[HailVon]

Thank you for the posting. I have a 1st cousin who lives in ID and they love it their as well.

I wish the east coast was as woke as Idaho.

 

[Occam]

Man, I have GOT to take a drive out there and soak the place up a little bit.

The subject of the article, Pruett, is described towards the end of the piece in a town meeting talking about the need for Idaho to avoid the traps that several other western states have fallen into: ballot initiatives. Therein lies the power of the mob over constitutional republicanism. He says that he hears from people in WA state and elsewhere - having just been stung on things like gun rights via lefty-powered ballot initiatives creating, effectively, new laws that otherwise would never make it through the state legislature - that they're awake now and ready to fight. "Too late!" he says. And he's right. Our counterparts in Virginia know just how that feels. Too late, bros - you slept through the election and look what happened. It was inevitable, but happened faster than it should have because of Bloomberg.

So the fight in Idaho is over STRUCTURE. Keeping the state situated entirely around its constitution and preemption so that incursions at the county and municipal level can't set a tone that acts as a magnet for lefties from CA, WA, OR etc to wreck the place. Pruett gets it, and it's literally now or never for that state. WV is kind of East Idaho, but only, I think, because the place is culturally unattractive to the lefties and they haven't bothered to establish a beachhead yet, outside of maybe parts of a couple college towns.