The usual gang of fools is crying to each other about how the evil gun lobby has Congress firmly in its evil grasp, and that’s why we can’t have a renaissance of the human spirit and get rid of those evil guns.  You see, they know that the people want to give up their guns and a few bad men are paying off politicians who are for sale and scaring those principled statesmen who are scared easily.

I never knew I was that kind of evil.*  You see, I am the gun lobby, and I think a lot of you are too.  I belong to groups like the NRA and the SAF, and not just as a “Yeah, I send them my dues.” exercise.  I stay informed, not just about what is happening here and now, but also what has been done in other places and times.  By learning about history and applying that to the present day, it helps me to make good predictions on where decisions may lead, and the decision to take away surrender gun rights has invariably led to tyranny and murder.  I have taken the time to learn how our government works and why the rights guaranteed by the Constitution were put in there.  I take the time to reach out to the politicians who represent me, and I make sure that they know just where I stand on not only gun rights, but also a large spread of subjects.

Those who are crying foul after the political process played out yesterday point to polls that show a majority of Americans wanting more gun control.  Let’s set aside the incessant arguing about whose polls mean more, and look at what matters when you look at public opinion on a political matter:  The number of registered and likely voters who have an opinion on the matter in question.  I am very curious to see how the pro/con ratio came out among the citizens who took the time to call, write, and visit their Senators and Representatives about gun legislation in the past few months.  I’d really like to see polls about gun control taken from people who got off their butts and voted last November, not just the random people the pollsters could catch at home on a Wednesday morning.

But to be honest, polls don’t matter when you talk about voting away my rights.  You see, even if a majority of people truly do want me to get a background check before selling a gun to my neighbor, or get rid of any of  guns that they find objectionable, or even turn in all of my guns, it means nothing to me.  I was born with my rights.  They were not given to me by the government or the consent of other citizens.  Just as a majority of people cannot force people to convert to Christianity or cause the burning of a book that pisses everyone off, I can’t be forced to curtail my rights to arms.  You can’t take my rights, I can only give them away voluntarily, and that just isn’t going to happen.

So I’m going to continue to be the ‘evil gun lobby’ as long as I have breath.  Feel free to exercise the same rights and power that I and those like me have been doing and contact your Congresscritters if you disagree.  Heck, you might even get lucky and get something through Congress eventually.  Of course, then the battle will shift to the courts, and then back to the legislature, and then back again, because we’re not going anywhere.  People like us have been here since before Lexington and Concord, and we will still be here when Washington and Lincoln are mythical characters.

I’ll see you guys at the next Evil Gun Lobby meeting.  I’m bringing cookies.

*I’m evil, just not that kind of evil.