The Confederate States of the Gun

[billh58]

The right-wingers in the Red states of the South are threatening the arrest of any Federal agents who attempt to enforce Federal gun regulations in their jurisdictions. Makes you proud to be an American doesn't it?

"Having failed in an earlier effort to bar federal agents from enforcing gun regulations in Missouri, conservative lawmakers are trying a new tack this year: banding together with other like-minded states to defy certain federal laws at the same time.

Supporters believe it will be more difficult for the federal government to shrug off such statutes if more states act together.

Missouri's latest proposal, introduced this past week, would attempt to nullify certain federal gun control regulations from being enforced in the state and subject law enforcement officers to criminal and civil penalties for carrying out such policies."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/mo-lawmakers-defying-gun-laws-21505174

Missouri Gun Death Ranking: #19

"Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant called on his state’s legislators to pass a law that would make “any unconstitutional order by the President illegal to enforce in Mississippi by state or local law enforcement.” Additionally, State Rep. Chris Brown is drafting legislation exempting Mississippi gun manufacturers from federal regulations."

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"In Tennessee, a state legislator is calling for the arrest of federal agents who seek to enforce gun laws, while Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas has called for Obama’s impeachment."

http://crasstalk.com/2013/01/as-obama-unveils-plan-right-wing-declares-gun-rights-non-negotiable/

Mississippi Gun Death Ranking: #6

Tennessee Gun Death Ranking: #11

It isn't federal agents that need to be arrested -- it is Red State right-wing, ALEC/Koch Brothers/NRA bought-and-paid-for politicians who need to be arrested for corruption and public endangerment. They are an embarrassment not only to this nation, but to civilized people the world over.

[Hoyt]

1. They are "law-abiding" gun owners as long as the gun laws are lax, allowing almost anyone to

accumulate as many gunz as they can afford, carry them almost anywhere, get off except in the most obvious/irrefutable case of shooting someone under stand your ground laws, promote them however they want, etc.

Gunz and bigots . . . . . .

[billh58]

2. The very same

mindset that fought against racial integration, in the very same region. Good ole boys, and guns will rise again...

[jimmy the one]

3. lost cause of the confederacy

Having failed in an earlier effort to bar federal agents from enforcing gun regulations in Missouri, conservative lawmakers are trying a new tack this year: banding together with other like-minded states to defy certain federal laws at the same time.
.. "In Tennessee, a state legislator is calling for the arrest of federal agents who seek to enforce gun laws, while Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas has called for Obama’s impeachment."

Lost Cause of the Confederacy ..... The term Lost Cause first appeared in the title of an 1866 book by the historian Pollard, The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the ConfederatesSome of the main tenets of the Lost Cause [of the confederacy] movement were that:
Confederate generals such as Lee .. represented the virtues of Southern nobility and fought bravely and fairly. On the other hand, most Northern generals were characterized as possessing low moral standards, because they subjected the Southern civilian population to indignities like Sherman's March to the Sea and Philip Sheridan's burning of the Shenandoah Valley..
Losses on the battlefield were inevitable due to Northern superiority in resources and manpower.
Battlefield losses were also the result of betrayal and incompetence on the part of certain subordinates of General Lee, such as General James Longstreet*, who was reviled for doubting Lee at Gettysburg, and George Pickett, who led the disastrous Pickett's Charge that broke the South's back.
Defense of states' rights, rather than preservation of chattel slavery, was the primary cause that led eleven Southern states to secede from the Union, thus precipitating the war.
Secession was a justifiable constitutional response to Northern cultural and economic aggressions against the Southern way of life.
Slavery was a benign institution, and the slaves were loyal and faithful to their benevolent masters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy

So this new 21st century policy is just a continuation of the lost cause of the confederacy, that they're such righteous & benevolent masters who only lose because of underhanded dealings by (currently) democrats & liberals, not recognizing their black pot calling the kettle that.

*Longstreet also aligned postwar with northern republicans, who were generally despised in the south which was predominantly democrat (parties flipped near 180 degrees since then), so longstreet viewed as traitorous, tho he seconded lee's ambition to cooperate with the reconstruction process.

[billh58]

4. Thanks for putting

this anti-Americanism mindset into perspective. Many in the former Confederate States have never gotten over losing the Civil War, and take any opportunity to blame the Federal Government for their self-inflicted social and economic problems.

High gun death rates is just one of many indicators of failed right-wing political policies carried over from the fantasy of a "Confederate States of America."