I have been absent from writing for a while. I have been trying to finish a paper for publication and presentation at a nuclear engineering conference. It has been time consuming. By the way, other than Joe and Wes, not many of you have asked about my status.

However, I wanted to mention a few things. I will be more frequent with deletion of comments in the future. This sidebar activity of the professional paper has been a good a welcome relief from what has become the burden of this web site.

Concerning the post Of Fools and Fudds, most of the comments are unthinking and conveyance of stupid memes (like “we’re not going to vote our way out of this”). Meanwhile, the SAF has to take up a legal fight with the U.S. Virgin Islands over possible new gun control, the Firearms Policy Coalition and Gun Owners of America have to take up all sorts of fights with virtually everyone in America over their new efforts at gun control – in the courts, no less, not where the fight should be, or at least not where the first line of defense should be. And in Virginia, the VCDL has to take up the fight in Virginia via the courts. But local prosecutors and some (not all) Sheriffs who refuse to enforce the new Virginia gun ban is incomplete. Sheriffs refusing the enforce confiscation can’t force FFLs to sell guns to anyone.

So while gun owners sit on comfortable couches and parrot stupid memes rather than vote, communists around the country become elected to office and make it more difficult to exercise God given rights. Apparently, only the communists understand politics. But it’s not about you. It’s about your progeny and those who come after you. While you may have the firearms and ammunition you want or think you need, the young ones who come behind us now must fight to procure them and the training to use them. Whether AR confiscations occur in Virginia or not, they cannot be purchased in light of the new laws. Neither can anyone procure them from adjacent states even under the current rules because no FFL will sell to Virginia residents.

I call it laziness, and I’m right. Leaving this to the courts is stupid and lethargic. I have never said that the ballot box was the last option. It’s the first option before the jury box and ammunition box. With the number of gun owners in America who do not vote (into the millions), we could be the most powerful lobby in the country. Rather, we have become a laughingstock while we circle the wagons and make it even worse for ourselves.

But Christ made His position plain. If you can’t be faithful in the small things, He will not even give you the opportunity to be faithful in the larger things (Luke 16:10-13). Quod erat demonstrandum.

I’m not stupid, and neither are you. I think through these things and I expect you to do the same. In the comments, don’t speak back to me like you think I’m stupid.