(1) I respect the hell out of Denis Goddard for everything he has accomplished.
(2) Denis Goddard is free to express his disagreement over what others are doing, but he obviously doesn't have the power to dictate what other Free Staters may or may not do. That makes the "don't let the door hit you on the ass" tone of this particular rant particularly unfortunate.
(3) I would agree that the statehouse gun ban is not a top-priority issue, and it would be a non-issue once the more fundamental questions of state power are addressed. Private property owners definitely have the Natural Right to enforce gun control on their properties. If there's a club or a homeowners' association that doesn't allow guns, it would be your choice whether to associate with them or not. But government is a far-reaching and unnatural monopoly - with them you have no choice, and that is the root of the issue. We should be protesting the nature of the power monopoly, not the specifics of its rules!
(4) Perhaps one way to do this is to boycott attending the statehouse in person and to submit all public speeches and rebuttal videos into the public domain (i.e. the Internet). You can bare whatever arms you want in those videos (assuming they are shot where the property owner allows it), one obviously can't shoot or be shot through a video screen! Those videos can be addressed to "the illegitimate powers that be", thus they can be disseminated without endorsing the legitimacy of the state. In absence of surrogate robots to go to the statehouse in our stead, we could just have people holding screens playing those videos expressing the Free Stater opinion. We might even be able to use some sort of a multi-culti disability regulation clause in our favor to demand that those videos be played during the legislative sessions. It is much easier to claim the moral highground when protesting for free speech rather than to have guns where they're not wanted, and we could use all sorts of
innovative techniques like projectors to get our point across. Since it's much easier to produce a video (over which you or your friends would have editorial control prior to its release) rather than to drive down to the statehouse and speak live in front of an unfriendly crowd, we might be able to use this technique to filibuster them to a screeching halt! But that's just my idea, I'm sure someone else could come up with something that's even better.
(5) Basing your arguments on an ancient piece of paper no living person has signed (i.e. the Second Amendment) is just plain stupid! Rights come from empirical economic facts regarding what societal rulesets are ideal for a thriving civilization, not from tradition or faith!
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OK, that's
THE ONE THING YOU DON'T JOKE ABOUT! Do it again, and I'll kick your ass! If I can
get a ride or something... bummmer... OK, I can't kick your ass offline at the moment, but you certainly would deserve it!