Drifting Fate

I'm seeing a fair amount of backlash regarding the commentary about the 1/20/20 VA rally, in general.  Not my comments, my readership can be counted on two hands... ok, one hand, but about comments in general.  So, let me make a few points.... "You weren't there, so you don't have a right to say anything."  Wrong.  That's a specious argument.  While some things come down to arm chair quarterbacking to be certain, this is a hackneyed defense when the offended really has nothing of substance to say.  This sort of stance negates all study of history, any oversight of any action of any organization, and is just plain foolishness.  It sounds almost right because it plucks on the heartstrings of empathy, and, yes, empathy is required, but, it's always required at some level. "Sure you would have committed egregious acts of violence if you had been there."  This is more of a retort than a real response to any specific commentary I've seen.  The ...

Yesterday, 1/20/20, was the large pro-2A rally in Virginia. What was accomplished?  That’s a question that already makes people uncomfortable. On the surface, it showed how peaceful and orderly the Right is. Take over 20,000 armed and angry people, mix them together and the result isn’t a single accidental shooting or even one minor arrest. That alone should speak to the quality of people concerned. Add to that nary a spec of litter (a widely circulated picture even shows multiple attendees scraping stickers off the road), and one would have expected worse from the Lutheran Women’s Club. But civic responsibility wasn’t the goal, was it? Between the breathless anticipation by the MSM of violence (there wasn’t so much as a twisted ankle reported) and “ominous chanting” (it was the Pledge of Allegiance), what did the Democrats around the Country see as opposition to a tyrannical power grab? Paper tigers. How you can have that much pent up frustration and anger in one place...