Ed Driscoll.com: The Man, In Full

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Just found this, via Indepundit…. Ed Driscoll.com: The Man, In Full:

[Tom] Wolfe then launched into variations on some of the quotes he gave England’s Guardian and London Times around election time earlier this month. He told our wannabe-Dieter that “the people in the south aren’t the Religious Right-they’re just religious. And these people are America. They’ve been that way for 200 years, and they’ll probably be that way for 200 more. They regard attacks on religion as attacks on them. If you try to take away their guns, they’ll remind you of the second amendment and tell you you’ll be staring down the barrel of one of their guns if you come for it.”

Where I don’t regard myself as one of these people that Wolfe talked about, especially since I hate guns, I feel a heck of a lot closer to them than to the faux-Dieter people in the audience that Ed Driscoll is sitting behind. Odd, since I used to aim to be such a Dieter-person. Oh, well… It used to be that the Left was the place of free thought and growth. I’m not getting those vibes from it any more.

Ed continues…

I can’t help but think that “Dieter” was indicative of a lot of Blue Staters: they don’t want to know what’s going on out there, they don’t want to know about Red America, they just wish it would all go away, either through the ACLU, or die on its own accord.

2 thoughts on “Ed Driscoll.com: The Man, In Full”

  1. Hate guns ? would you put that on your lawn ?

    Disarmed and helpless here, common thugs and kill me rape my wife and abuse my kids !

    Im not much of a gun nut either, we have some scope rifles and shotguns leftover from the “hunting with mom and dad” days ) yes she hunted too) but no pistols.

    I still take care of them, they might not ever fire another shot at a living thing, but i buy a fresh box of buckshot every 2-3 years or so, im not
    dumbfuck enough to leave my loved ones unprotected.

    I dont like war much either, but im not dumbfuck enough to be anti-war.

    Reality isnt utopia, and we must live in reality, too bad that “Dieter” as you say, dont live in it.

    As for your gun hatred, the gun you should hate is the one used to put you down to get at your wife, and if its because you are without one of your own, you should direct dome of that hate at yourself.

    Welcome to reality

  2. I don’t much put signs on my lawn saying anything. We tried putting out a sign with our house number on it, but somebody ran it over.

    I do know that ANY weapon one has, if one is not master of it, can and probably will be used against you. So I am afraid of guns because I can’t use them, and it is too easy for them to hurt people one doesn’t want to be hurt.

    Not sure why you want me to hate myself so much. You do seem to be seeing the world in a purely black and white way here, and the fact that I’m a gun-hater, I guess, makes me automatically one of your enemies. Whatever.

    BTW, since I’m female AND heterosexual AND monogamous, I have a husband, but no wife. Married 26 years with a wonderful son. And we all voted for Bush. So if you want to complain about them damn liberals, sorry to disappoint. Well, not sorry, really — it’s more of a figure of speech. So you’ll have to keep your rants on my blog confined to anti-anti-gun people. Go over to Daily Kos — much more to rant about there, a wider scope and all, and I’ll cheer you on, too.

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