U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “I’m a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson,” Salon columnist and novelist Lucian K. Truscott IV wrote in a Monday opinion piece for The New York Times. “Take down his memorial.”
The reason, of course, is because Jefferson owned slaves. It’s another springboarding from the agitprop of the “1619 Project” and the deliberate stirring up of racial divisions for political purposes by “the newsraper of record.”
How “woke” of Truscott. But slavery is not the only thing about the Founders he objects to. He’s also an unabashed “progressive,” meaning he stands as much against the tremendous advances in freedom his ancestor accomplished in life as he does against his failings.
Nowhere is that more apparent than in how Truscott disparages the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
“How about you join the Army if you want to shoot guns?” Truscott asks in a 2018 Salon hit piece on the right to keep and bear arms that packs in all the clichés. You don’t need an M-16 to hunt! You don’t need 30 rounds! You don’t need silhouette targets! Such guns were designed for war!
Not quite but no kidding – seems someone once mentioned a “tree of liberty” that anticipated exactly that. The Second Amendment isn’t about duck hunting and a Bill of Needs is straight out of Marx.
The militia, at the time the Second Amendment was ratified, kept the same types of weapons at home as they were likely to encounter when called forth – otherwise, they would be marching off to their slaughter. That’s hardly an outcome that would be “necessary to the security of a free State.”
As for Truscott’s Army suggestion, that’s reminiscent of nothing so much as a “join the SS or SA” quote widely attributed (but not documented that I can find) to Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, Heinrich Himmler. Here’s one I can document (thanks to the Internet Archive) from Truscott’s ideological soul sister, “Long Island Lolita” Amy Fisher:
“Assault weapons were designed for military use. If a law-abiding citizen has such a yearning to possess one of these weapons, then let that person join the Marines.”
At least in his case, Truscott claims “I grew up in an Army family, and … I never saw a goddamned human silhouette target until I was on a United States Army firing range with an Army-issue M-16 in my hands.” His Salon bio further reveals he is “a graduate of West Point.” Neither qualification claim brings up an earlier admission that he “got a general discharge under other than honorable conditions, generally known as a ‘bad discharge’” (not quite enough to “legally disqualify” him for gun ownership, but enough to get a foreigner “denaturalized”).
“Youuuuu might be a gun nut if . . .” Truscott began another Salon hit piece on guns (that’s all they ever have). In this one, he goes heavy on Alinsky Rule 5 ridicule to make fun of concerns that anyone wants to take away guns (of course they do). He falsely claims NRA is having hysterics over “bump stocks” (they actually gave a green light to treat them like machineguns), that introducing car comparisons is a “straw man” argument (he should tell that to his hosts at The New York Times), and that correcting the politically-motivated conflation of machineguns with semiautos is “military-macho-gun-speak.”
Anyone getting the feeling that “other than honorable” might be a way of life with this ankle-biter of a descendant?
Absolutely there can be no excuse for the sin of slavery, and noting that it has been practiced by cultures throughout human history, that whites have also been enslaved, and that it’s still being practiced today does not mitigate that.
It’s true that Thomas Jefferson and some of the other Founding Fathers, including George Washington, failed in extending the benefits of Liberty to all – that cannot and should not be denied. That does not mean the entire system and framework of government they devised, from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are invalidated. That’s what those tearing down monuments, the totalitarian-minded purveyors of universal slavery, are really trying to destroy.
The criminal defense blog, Simple Justice, has an interesting post up, analyzing a challenge to all the “woker than thou” white SJWs. Simply put, it makes a credible case that most would have gone along with the prevailing values of the times. It is the rare person who is willing to stand up against the majority and take positions on individual rights that have been condemned and demonized by the establishment, resulting in ridicule, name-calling, silencing, ostracizing, denial of economic opportunities…
Think of who that really applies to. Chance are they won’t be writing for The New York Times or Salon.
Yes, the giants of our past had flaws. “He that is without sin among you…” and all that.
Who will end up making the greater ultimate contribution to Liberty? The Founding Fathers or ideological dwarfs demolishing the legacy bequeathed to them in the shallow quest to gain approval from their similarly stunted peers?
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
Thomas Jefferson was considered one of the smartest persons to ever walk the earth. Sadly, Lucian K. Truscott IV may be a direct descendant of Jefferson but it appears that brain matter was not passed down to him.
His education at West Point was paid for by the taxpayers, yet he refused to go to Vietnam after he graduated. Hence the general discharge under less than honorable conditions. (I went to VN but five good friends did not make it home alive.I am sure some of his classmates did not survive the war either) Now he thinks he can tell us what firearms (if any) we can own! What a disgraceful human being.
Another piece of shit that wants to bash our country. Get the fuck out if you dont like it here.
Too much press coverage of these POS who hate America and not enough of those who love this country. But what do you expect from the so-called news media?
Truscott went to West Point but his attitude says he should have went to Canada, someone needs to tell him it’s not to late to leave the country he hates.
Only in America does being a descendant of a notable person warrant a public platform.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, we do the same thing for people who star in movies, people who can sing songs, even those who can jump high and dunk a basketball.
And we wonder why we’re in the shape we’re in?
It amazes me how hypocritical liberals are. I ask every one this question and not a single one would/could answer it. If you are so offended by the symbols of slavery from the past, why are you not calling for the end to the Democratic Party. They were formed in 1792 for the sole purpose of keeping slavery, fought a civil war to keep slavery, supported the Klansmen, honored the first grand wizard at their DNC in the 1800’s, fought against the Civil Rights act by pulling off the longest filibuster in the history of our country to fight desegregation.… Read more »
No one who works for Salon NEEDS assault computer access as well as those weapons of war, high capacity pens and pencils.
The militia, …., kept the same types of weapons at home as they were likely to encounter when called forth. Actually most of OUR guys had long guns far superior to those the British Regulars carried. The Crown issued a smoothbore musket, of .75 bore, and ball of only .69 calibre. That means the ball had t least six thousandths clearance to the bore that was supposed to guide and proppel it. They were also trained to NOT use “wadding”, a chunk of cloth to help keep the ball INSIDE the bore until there as “fire in the hole”. Think… Read more »
I am Southern, but we can find no record of any of my relatives that owned slave, probably like 95% of the South they either didn’t need them or were too poor to own them. But I had a number of kin lost to the War of Northern Aggression. They often say ‘to the victors goes the spoils of war’ and one of those spoils is writing the history. I honor the Southerners who died fighting for a cause they felt right, not for slavery. I was also raised to honor and believe in the United States. I wonder if… Read more »