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Scott Brumback
How delusional must a person be to apparently believe that the periodic massacre of schoolchildren is acceptable collateral damage in the imaginary war to keep American tyrants at bay?
Scott Brumback, an attorney and a former Republican precinct committee officer who ran (and lost) as a Democrat against a Republican incumbent in the 2010 Washington state legislative election, wrote a letter to the editor of the Yakima Herald in response to the national gun control discussion that the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting has precipitated.
Brumback seems to want the reader to believe that he’s so overcome by the murder of the children that he can’t even type out complete sentences. He begins his letter like this:
Horrible, senseless murders at an elementary school. The dearest of God’s creations violated. Words cannot express.
Whatever tears may have dissolved the missing words from those sentences, however, seem to have been shed by a crocodile. Those obligatory emotional niceties out of the way, he then proceeds to jump right into the paranoid rant. And he uses complete sentences to do it:
Unscrupulous political elites use this tragedy to disarm Americans under the guise of public safety. The media plays the useful pawn to sway public opinion toward more government power and less individual liberty.
Man’s subjugation and murder of his fellow man is well-documented. Historically, evil men used oppressive government to inflict large-scale oppression and tyranny on innocent people. Millions of disarmed men, women and children were herded and murdered throughout the ages by tyrants. Were these people any less real? Too many of our citizens ignore history and hope “it won’t happen to us.” Hope is not a plan.
If those murdered by tyrants could speak, what would they counsel us? Lay down and submit? Or maintain the means to fight tyranny should it ever rear its ugly head among us.
Our Second Amendment is our right to the means to resist tyrants so that we have at least a chance to be free. The Second Amendment was never about hunting.
The millions of civilians murdered by tyrannical government all had this in common: They were disarmed.
This letter is written in the classic “I don’t believe in X, but…” format used by people who can’t or won’t admit that what they say about X isn’t entirely true. Brumback refers to children as “The dearest of God’s creations”, but in reality he seems to believe that the NRA’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is more deserving of that designation.
After reading this letter, voters in Yakima must be breathing a sigh of relief that they didn’t elect this delusional man.
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… weird… firearms are everywhere and yet the servants of the plutocrats have our government on a tighter leash than ever.
The millions of civilians murdered by tyrannical government all had this in common: They were disarmed.
Really? We hear this all the time from gun rights advocates. Didn’t the French have rifles and other firearms when they were overrun by the Nazis? How about Poland, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Spain, etc.? Those people all hunted with the firearms available at the time. I know little about the Asian populations, but gunpowder was not a new thing when the Japanese invaded China and Korea prior to the outbreak of WWII. Did they hunt with a bow or a knife? It seems like folly to me to consider facing government tanks, helicopters, or other heavy artillery by even the best armed civilian. It’s WAY too late to consider revolt if it comes to that against today’s military machine.
Frankly, as we keep seeing, gun nut fetishists and their enablers and co-dependents in the NRA clearly don’t give one iota of crap about ANY loss of life, no matter how young, defenseless, etc., or how many? Millions get offed by some bogus “militia” with an arsenal of heavy artillery because they “thought they had to defend themselves against terrissss or other enemies????” Oh well: they’re so-called Second Amendment “rights” supercede the rights of those millions to be alive.
Too many of these gun nut-fetishists, imo, are frankly sick sociopaths or psycopaths, who could care LESS about anyone. Period.
They use these ginned up “excuses” conveniently repeated ad nauseum on HATE radio/tv and by the barking dogs of the NRA (at the behest of BigGun, BigAmmo.
There is no reality here for these disgusting weasles. They are not trucking in reality. They are loons barking at the moon insisting their so-called “Rights” are paramount and supercede anyone else’s “Rights” to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
It’s bullshit.
It would be useful to know whether this candidate expressed his views on guns during the campaign, and whether any polling was done on this issue. If not, I think it should be required of any candidate, so the public can consider his/her position to be a factor in their voting.
These people keep saying they are going to rise in righteous anger when the gummint comes to take away their guns. I sure hope so.
“Hope is not a plan.”
I hope that gun in the bedside table drawer doesn’t go off and kill my wife or child.
I hope that guy walking down the street with his assault rifle isn’t a crazy person going to murder some school children.
I hope that guy buying that 30 bullet magazine isn’t going to use it to gun down a bunch of college students.
I hope that guy I sold that gun to isn’t going to shoot people at a political rally.
I hope that guy is smart enough to practice reasonable gun safety.
I hope that people will wise the fuck up.