{"id":33010,"date":"2015-09-01T20:05:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T00:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=33010"},"modified":"2015-09-01T20:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T00:06:26","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-august-31st-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=33010","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, August 31st, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Monday, August 31st, 2015…and here’s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up on the last edition of August, NRO<\/em>‘s Charles W. Cooke has penned…<\/strong><\/p>\n

An Open Rant Aimed at Those Who Would Repeal the Second Amendment<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

Talk is cheap, but persuading Americans to surrender their rights will be expensive, difficult, and time-consuming<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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…When the likes of Rob Delaney and Bill Maher and Keith Ellison say that we need to get rid of the Second Amendment, they are not speaking in a vacuum but reflecting the views of a small but vocal portion of the American population<\/em><\/span>. And they mean it<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> That being so, here\u2019s the million-dollar question: What the hell are they waiting for? Go on, chaps. Bloody well do it.<\/p>\n

Seriously, try it<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> Start the process<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

…This will involve hard work, of course. You can\u2019t just sit online and preen to those who already agree with you<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> No siree.<\/strong> <\/span>Instead, you\u2019ll have to go around the states \u2014 traveling and preaching until the soles of your shoes are thin as paper. You\u2019ll have to lobby Congress, over and over and over again. You\u2019ll have to make ads and shake hands and twist arms and cut deals and suffer all the slings and arrows that will be thrown in your direction. You\u2019ll have to tell anybody who will listen to you that they need to support you; that if they disagree, they\u2019re childish and beholden to the \u201cgun lobby\u201d; that they don\u2019t care enough about children; that their reverence for the Founders is mistaken; that they have blood on their goddamn hands; that they want to own firearms only because their penises are small and they\u2019re not \u201creal men.\u201d And remember, you can\u2019t half-ass it this time. You\u2019re not going out there to tell these people that you want \u201creform\u201d or that \u201cenough is enough.\u201d You\u2019re going there to solicit their support for removing one of the articles within the Bill of Rights<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> Make no mistake: It\u2019ll be unpleasant strolling into Pittsburgh or Youngstown or Pueblo and telling blue-collar Democrat after blue-collar Democrat that he only has his guns because he\u2019s not as well endowed as he\u2019d like to be. It\u2019ll be tough explaining to suburban families that their established conception of American liberty is wrong.<\/span> You might<\/span> even suffer at the polls because of it<\/span>.<\/em> But that\u2019s what it\u2019s going to take.<\/span> So do it<\/em><\/span>. Start now.<\/span> Off you go<\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

Yeah…<\/strong><\/p>\n